Example sentences of "[conj] can be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case he said : As I understand it , the essence of this branch of law , whatever the origin of it may be , is that a person who has obtained information in confidence is not allowed to use it as a springboard for activities detrimental to the person who made the confidential communication , and springboard it remains even when all the features have been published or can be ascertained by actual inspection by any members of the public . |
| 2 | It is available everywhere Historic Scotland meets its customers , or can be obtained by telephoning Historic Scotland on . |
| 3 | Where the company subsequently becomes aware that its figure is no longer the ‘ best estimate ’ , or can be replaced by an accurate figure , this information should be sent to the inspector without unreasonable delay . |
| 4 | Delusions that the mind is being controlled by an external force or that thoughts are being inserted or removed or can be heard by others . |
| 5 | The second layer can be added as a separate , usually movable , pane inside your existing window ( known as secondary glazing ) , or can be provided by fitting a twin-wall sealed glazing unit in place of the usual single pane . |
| 6 | It may be spontaneous or can be induced by a Mallory-Weiss tear , instrument trauma , anti-coagulant treatment , and haematologic malignancies . |
| 7 | Tertiary qualities are those arrangements which change , or can be changed by , the corpuscular arrangements of other things . |
| 8 | ‘ Michelet has strong emotions , and he smears what he feels on to paper without caring in the least how he does it , and without giving the slightest thought to technique or conventional forms — just shaping it into any form that can be understood by those who want to understand it . ’ |
| 9 | In a series of conversations with the Frenchman Didier Eribon published by Thames and Hudson this month , Sir Ernst Gombrich , former director of the Warburg Institute and one of the most distinguished academics of our time ( yet one of the most accessible because of his belief that it should be possible to explain everything in language that can be understood by a child ) , talks about the development of his ideas , his values and the events which contributed to their formation . |
| 10 | They should strive to present findings in a way that can be understood by practitioners without sacrificing the truth of their assertions , and should pay attention to the dissemination and development of findings . |
| 11 | They wo n't need to see all of your data , but choose certain items to print out or type out in a way that can be understood by the non-linguist . |
| 12 | A merit of this approach is that the variables are visually presented in a style that can be understood by generalists and specialists alike . |
| 13 | In what follows my main purposes are : ( 1 ) to demonstrate the patterns of simplification that can be traced by comparing our inner-city data with that of the city-wide random sample ‘ doorstep ’ survey and the outer-city community studies ; and ( 2 ) to consider how far a theory of strong and weak ties can account for the maintenance of complex patterns and the development of simpler ones . |
| 14 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
| 15 | During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye . |
| 16 | The features that can be seen by colposcopy do not , however , correspond well with the severity of histological abnormality . |
| 17 | They convey a double sense of experience : that of a linear process ; but also of an eternal state of being which informs and transcends it , and which is accessed within the structure of human nature , itself programmed with a restlessness that can be assuaged by nothing less . |
| 18 | ASSURED SHORTHOLD TENANCIES do not give long-term tenancy rights and there is very little control over the rent levels that can be charged by a landlord . |
| 19 | The need for additional secure places that can be accessed by Leicestershire is not at issue , what 's still be investigated is how a regional service meeting varying types of needs can be provided discussions are still taking place with Northamptonshire county council and into some other current secure unit provider authorities as to how best Leicestershire can work with other local authorities in the region towards this objective . |
| 20 | The size of the groups is probably determined by the number of individuals that can be sustained by the size of the school of prey . |
| 21 | However , I would say that any branch of art — be it music , painting , sculpture , literature , drama , or poetry — which abandons formal principles to the point of formlessness is doomed to failure : form allows a sense of completeness in a work of art , one that can be grasped by us and held in our memories . |
| 22 | Insufficient attention has hitherto been given to the role that can be played by scholarly publication in influencing harmonization . |
| 23 | A game that can be played by all the family is quite rare so this is sure to be popular among readers . |
| 24 | A game that can be played by all the family is quite rare so this is sure to be popular among readers . |
| 25 | A game that can be played by all the family is quite rare so this is sure to be popular among readers . |
| 26 | Of course , there is a definite limit to the strength of cross wind that can be accepted by some machines , particularly those fitted with tail-skids rather than tail-wheels . |
| 27 | It is the creation of a ‘ standard ’ enshrined in a ‘ god ’ that can be accepted by people from all countries and of all races that is utterly vital . |
| 28 | The EC Foreign Ministers ' meeting on May 2 [ see above ] concluded that the EC was " willing to recognize Macedonia as a sovereign and independent state within its existing borders and under a name that can be accepted by all parties concerned " . |
| 29 | Well , one can use eqn ( 3.1 ) as it is , but very often one is better off by using its integral form that can be obtained by integrating both sides of eqn ( 3.1 ) over a surface |
| 30 | As well as Steve 's publications our newssheet covers such topics as spotting grounds from branch line trains and local buses , and our most recent sheet contained an article on a spectacular view of Northtown 's thatched terraces that can be obtained by skateboarding off the top of the multi-storey on to the roof of Lloyds Bank . |