Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect the relationship between society and religion can be compared to that between families and the homes they live in . |
| 2 | Zarathustra 's monotheistic religion can be regarded as a response to the social conditions of his time , an age of transition when a settled agricultural and pastoral community was being threatened by predatory tribes who still followed the nomadic way of life . |
| 3 | RIGHT Religion can be regarded as a primitive attempt to explain scientifically all the phenomena around us . |
| 4 | Of course religion can be challenged , but there are plenty of sound reasons for religion . |
| 5 | The task is to define the ‘ god ’ and lay down the precepts whereby the corresponding religion can be disciplined and protected from the kind of exploitation for political or financial advantage which in the past has corrupted or destroyed so many of the world 's religious activities . |
| 6 | The uses to which religion can be put are not always beneficial — indeed can be very damaging indeed . |
| 7 | ( The meaning of symbol in religion can be undermined not just by literalism , but by evacuating the content of the symbol , making it " just symbolism " . ) |
| 8 | Chapter 5 considers other aspects of the store ; protection of store areas from being inadvertently overwritten , the use of particular store locations for special purposes , means by which the store 's apparent capacity and speed can be increased , and the use of associative and cyclic stores . |
| 9 | The variation of pull.out torque with speed can be approximated by the straight lines shown dotted in Fig. 6.8 , i.e. TV ) is approximated by the functions : The step length is 15 degrees = 0.262 radians = 2n/np . |
| 10 | A speed can be locked in by selecting a dial letter and pressing the Power-on button . |
| 11 | This is an outline of the way speed can be achieved during normal updating . |
| 12 | Direct drive stepping motors eliminate backlash and speed can be varied from 50-5000 microns per second with a focus resolution of 0.5 microns for precise control . |
| 13 | These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres . |
| 14 | On arriving , one will see there are two possible ways through the mountains , the easier being that to the south where a main feeder of the loch can be followed up to the watershed . |
| 15 | Action can be said loosely to have all sorts of meanings . |
| 16 | Unlike pluralist and elitist accounts ? this Marxist theory denies that individuals choose freely and that political action can be based upon their subjective and value-free preferences . |
| 17 | They restrict the extent to which human action can be understood , substituting explanations based on a plastic model of the individual and a narrow and amorphous model of social relations and structure . |
| 18 | If this action can be maintained against a newspaper it can be maintained against every private citizen who ventures to criticise the ministers who are temporarily conducting the affairs of his government . |
| 19 | This is an alternative to an action and no action can be maintained while there is distraint of the chattel . |
| 20 | Enforcement action can be stopped at any stage by the payment of the amount due . |
| 21 | If Stein 's action can be seen as a rearrangement of Cristofori 's action , then the Viennese action , formally speaking , can be seen as a transformation of the English . |
| 22 | By giving pupils access to such software , the educational aim of allowing creative thought and action can be achieved by school librarians and teachers . |
| 23 | In both countries the movement away from the pure gospel of self-help to a demand for state action can be dated from the late 1840s . |
| 24 | When accurate information is available for analysis by management , trends and patterns in absenteeism will emerge and appropriate action can be decided on . |
| 25 | This means that , if the conditions are all true in some state , then the operator called action can be applied to the state , and what is more , this operator may help the search . |
| 26 | The condition is a predicate which is true of just those states N that the action can be applied to . |
| 27 | THEN … ’ rules : If the condition is true of a state , then the action can be applied . |
| 28 | It provides the basis from which corrective action can be planned and taken . |
| 29 | This concept of homoeopathic drug action can be used to estimate how often , in theory at least , a remedy may have to be repeated — an aspect of homoeopathic prescribing which causes great difficulty and debate . |
| 30 | As the archaic sack-pictures show , the movements of figures in action can be used to build an effective unity from essentially disparate groups juxtaposed in the surface plane . |