Example sentences of "[noun] can be [verb] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is an outline of the way speed can be achieved during normal updating . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The crucial middle ground — the exploration of how words can be manipulated on paper and the effects such manipulation can achieve — may be seriously neglected . |
| 9 | Words which are orthographically regular have at least three routes : the GPC route which uses orthographic components to derive their phonological correlates the lexical route which uses the visual representation of the word to access meaning before generating the pronunciation ; and Glushko 's ( 1979 ) " analogy " route whereby words can be pronounced in the same way as their orthographic associates . |
| 10 | Badly formed characters and even illegible words can be understood in context because human readers use their knowledge of language and the world to guide their processing . |
| 11 | Texts are varied systematically and types of finger movement and speeds on target words can be compared for the different demands made on the reader . |
| 12 | If we want to paint a big choral canvas , words can be repeated without any fear of being repetitious , or we can use whole sentences or sections several times over . |
| 13 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 14 | It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored . |
| 15 | This is especially so for handwriting , when not only spelling errors , but also illegible words can be deduced from the context . |
| 16 | Burr states that suffixed forms of words can be derived by rule . |
| 17 | A further 5,000 unfamiliar words can be added to the system , along with up to 99 standard paragraphs that can be called in as required . |
| 18 | Words which fall into the open class are those which are potentially unlimited in number because new words can be added to the language as the need arises . |
| 19 | Expected phonological variations within words can be captured through the pre-compilation of reduction rules mentioned above . |
| 20 | These new words can be proved by taking statements from an aggrieved person(s) to say how harassed , alarmed or distressed he was . |
| 21 | Although words can be processed by a number of different routes , for skilled readers the lexical route is the most attractive . |
| 22 | — selectional restrictions of various words can be modelled by the type of links attached to their representative nodes . |
| 23 | Key words can be underlined in the same colour . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Enforcement action can be stopped at any stage by the payment of the amount due . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | By giving pupils access to such software , the educational aim of allowing creative thought and action can be achieved by school librarians and teachers . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |