Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A close analogy with the art of singing can be made here . |
| 2 | A similar process of levelling can be seen on the Continent . |
| 3 | However the process of dying can be marred by guilt and rejection . |
| 4 | The level of checking can be tuned to reduce the number of errors detected . |
| 5 | All gasoline-powered cars harm the environment , but the polluting effects of driving can be minimized by using the car carefully . |
| 6 | The danger of swallowing can be minimised if companies take the tender offer route — buying minority stakes which still enable them to exercise some control , and still share costs in areas such as research or marketing . |
| 7 | However , this paper has attempted to demonstrate that there is a whole range of dimensions to the experience of ageing with a disability , and also that both the subjective and objective reality of ageing can be understood only in the context of prior experience . |
| 8 | The enormous popularity of hiking can be seen not only as a consequence of the formation of the YHA , but also of the emergence of many new organizations and clubs which undertook to arrange hikes and negotiate concessionary rates for travel , accommodation , and refreshment for their members , and others engaged in agitation for reform of the access laws . |
| 9 | One way in which the flexibility of microprogramming can be used is in providing several different computer architectures and instruction sets on one basic hardware . |
| 10 | The break with this structure of belonging can be announced only through a certain organisation , a certain strategic arrangement which , within the field of metaphysical opposition , uses the strengths of the field to turn its own stratagems against it , producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself throughout the entire system , fissuring it in every direction and thoroughly delimiting it . |
| 11 | Then the needs for affection and a sense of belonging can be fulfilled . |
| 12 | It may be that these ways of speaking can be explicated at bottom only by way or the idea of necessitation . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom has a unique database of prescribing from which practice indicators and audit of prescribing can be derived |
| 14 | The quality of prescribing can be improved by the activities of family health services authority professional advisers . |
| 15 | New ways of coping can be shared , and solutions to problems can be found based on the values and ideas of their generation , not according to the views and attitudes of the modern world . |
| 16 | The process of disordering can be characterized by a relaxation time , but may not be easily measured . |
| 17 | It seems that a course of dealing can be established even though the terms have never been incorporated into any of the contracts between the parties . |
| 18 | The marks of charring can be seen everywhere there today . |
| 19 | Put simply , if it becomes the custom or the practice of a group of workers to do a job in a certain way and management makes no objection , then that method of working can be cited as a precedent in disputes . |
| 20 | It is advisable , however , not to alter the tuning of any one drum by more than a tone ( since small alterations of tuning can be effected by ‘ feel ’ to a great extent ) , and a dozen or more bars of moderate time ought to be allowed for accurate adjustment of the tuning-screws . |
| 21 | In part , this tendency towards cohabiting can be explained by the fact that the known users were randomly sampled , whereas the hidden sector was sampled through nomination and interviewees ' partners formed a prominent part of the sampling frame . |
| 22 | However , since only the continued path from naming can be matched to a long word , the path from name is discontinued ( without storing the short word he on the word graph ) . |
| 23 | Ideally , it is necessary to have a large series of fairly complete skeletons of one particular ethnic group , for it is in most cases only by noting the variability in the collection that any degree of certainty in sexing can be achieved . |
| 24 | As Michael Goldman ( 1975 ) suggests , fashions in acting can be seen in terms of the varying degrees to which it is thought proper to expose the private feeling of the actor . |
| 25 | The statistical error on N is , so that the achievable precision in measuring can be estimated by replacing dN by in this equation and rewriting it as an expression for : . |
| 26 | These data show that the ion transport defects in CF can be corrected in vivo . |
| 27 | The last row before transferring can be knitted in either direction . |
| 28 | The ESRC are considering how their past and current initiatives on Ageing can be taken forward . |
| 29 | Since nodding can be described only as a formless act , clearly the civil law had no interest in it . |