Example sentences of "[adj] can be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way this government control has come to be accepted as normal and proper can be seen by the irritated reactions of ministers and whips on the odd occasions when something goes wrong . |
| 2 | Any additional endowment cover you may require with HeadStart 531 can be provided by Sun Life , one of the UK 's most respected life assurance companies . |
| 3 | While nothing definitive can be concluded from such meagre data , the fact that such examples do seem to suggest different impressions than the to infinitive to speakers of various dialects indicates that they deserve closer attention , especially in the light of a further examination of the passive voice . |
| 4 | Even the detailed entries on 1015 and 1016 can be supplemented by the Encomium Emmae , Thietmar of Merseburg , Icelandic poetry , and later English sources . |
| 5 | The total measurement of scallops and spaces is longer than the pole length , but this can be lost by increasing the size of one or two pleats . |
| 6 | Depending on the expert and the case you may need to do all or any of the following : summarise the facts of the case and the legal issues ; ask specific questions and indicate their legal significance ; ask whether any further evidence is likely to be available , so that this can be sought on discovery ; and whether any further enquiries , tests or reports are necessary . |
| 7 | Suppose that an individual has to put up 100 per cent margin ( i.e. has to pay the full amount of the investment Pf from the start ) but that this can be invested at the riskless rate r . |
| 8 | Again this can be turned to the researcher 's advantage . |
| 9 | Papinian is discussing whether , if a non-heir builds a monument , this can be regarded as a negotium gestum and the costs charged to the heir . |
| 10 | The directors may , for instance , make gifts to the employees , but only where this can be regarded as ‘ an inducement to them to exert themselves in future , or as an act done reasonably for the purpose of getting the greatest profit from the business ’ . |
| 11 | If the injury due to the escape of the noxious thing would not have occurred but for the unusual sensitiveness of the plaintiff 's property , there is some conflict of authority whether this can be regarded as default of the plaintiff . |
| 12 | This can be regarded as support for the view that such meteorites typify much of the material from which the three planets accreted . |
| 13 | From the present viewpoint this can be regarded as the time component of the metric equation for space–time round a spherically symmetric mass . |
| 14 | There is nothing to stop the parties specifically preventing the expert from pursuing his own investigations and limiting his consideration of evidence to the material submitted by the parties ; this can be attended to at this stage , if it has not been already provided for in the expert clause : see 8.15.8 . |
| 15 | This can be upgraded to the Pentium chip when it becomes available in the second quarter this year . |
| 16 | This can be accessed within seconds by police officers across the country . |
| 17 | Sometimes , but not always , the author has supplied a list of plates and where they should appear in the book ; sometimes , but not always , this can be relied upon , since plates apparently missing have an odd habit of turning up in some other spot ; sometimes , but not always , the plates themselves are numbered , which makes life easier . |
| 18 | An erosion surface should show up as an excess in a certain range of altitude and this can be revealed by a device such as a hypsographic curve , which aims to depict the overall distribution of elevation and is usually used to illustrate the earth 's major relief features . |
| 19 | Like the computers made by Acorn , this can be plugged into what is called a local area network — a system of wires and terminals that connects small computers within a building . |
| 20 | If there is a significant urethritis , this can be adduced by first sample can be spun down and the solid matter can be stained and microscopically examined . |
| 21 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 22 | This can be likened to Jung 's ‘ collective unconscious ’ . |
| 23 | Lastly , the hearth has to be tended , constantly supplied with fuel , and this can be likened to the need for the home to be paid ongoing care and attention , the absence of which will be felt as a cold and empty atmosphere . |
| 24 | This can be developed by regarding organisms as chemodynamical machines , by identifying three classes of bioenergetic processes namely fermentation , photosynthesis , and respiration , and by utilizing an approach to classification based upon microphysiology and biochemistry as well as upon macrostructure of organisms and upon macrophysiological processes . |
| 25 | This can be related to the concern in Derrida 's work with the politics of feminism and other positions which contest institutional and political appropriation and exclusion . |
| 26 | This can be related to the polymer molecular weight M 2 through so that and finally |
| 27 | This can be reached by a well maintained serpentine path down the steep slope . |
| 28 | This can be expressed through disputes between high-bourgeois individuals , themselves acceptable to the legal system as with the Guildford Four , who , partly as a result of international pressure , had highly placed clerics and members of the judiciary supporting their release . |
| 29 | This can be expressed as a contrast between the ‘ merely utilitarian ’ and the ‘ artistic ’ , or , on the other hand , between the ‘ useful ’ and the ‘ merely cultural ’ . |
| 30 | In shorthand this can be expressed as . |