Example sentences of "[conj] can be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is there any sense in which those who oppose and vote against a particular policy or decision can be said to assent to it , or can be said to be governing themselves when they have voted against the policy that has been adopted ? |
| 2 | In many instances , however , a related or competitive product of a similar type which is known to , or can be presumed to , exhibit satisfactory stability under market conditions , can often be included and can provide valuable help in the evaluation of the test data . |
| 3 | Faxes can be saved in order to be printed later or can be sent to other system subscribers — again using the keypad on a touch tone phone . |
| 4 | These are usually determined by the conductivity measured under controlled conditions , the instrument used giving readings that indicate , or can be related to , the content of dissolved salts in the water . |
| 5 | The question as to what is , or can be considered to be , productive and unproductive labour , and productive and unproductive consumption , has been the subject of hot debate , going back to Adam Smith and beyond . |
| 6 | For those examples that have been described so far , the best advice that can be given to individuals is to help them to strengthen their time-cues and to take more notice of them . |
| 7 | Education has learned to grab with ease but not to reach out and yet there is a good deal of help that can be given to small businesses and voluntary organisations once the idea of level three partnership has been grasped . |
| 8 | Second , if one does know in advance that the celebratory flowers are to be pressed , there are various details that can be given to the florist in question that will make one 's task much easier . |
| 9 | It is the name that can be given to a historical construct . |
| 10 | Within the profession the general feeling is that the greater the degree of autonomy that can be given to teachers and schools , the more likely are they to accept responsibility for educational provision and become committed to improving its quality . |
| 11 | Only properties that can be given to the selected object are displayed . |
| 12 | The problem with this method is that we must generate the species of interest continuously — often by mixing two gases or solutions — in a way that can be matched to the timescale of the measurement . |
| 13 | They are designed to maximise retail selling space at investment levels that can be matched to a variety of business options , and to provide growth potential in non traditional locations , at significantly lower capital investment compared to the traditional concept . |
| 14 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 15 | This has led to waste and inefficiency since the definition of a good hour of work is one that can be charged to the contract rather than one in which some progress has been made . |
| 16 | It is a consideration that can be limited to the purchase cost of each vehicle together with its pattern of operating costs ( see Cooke and Glynn , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Another way in which the cat 's sound system appears much more complex than that of other species is in the degree of variation that can be applied to a single type of call . |
| 18 | Morrison 's epitaph on London Labour before the war , therefore , is not one that can be applied to West Ham . |
| 19 | Unfortunately the degrees of confidence that can be applied to such scientific dates are inadequate for a period which can be viewed in terms of generations ( Campbell , Baxter and Alcock 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Consequently ICAO has very wisely given guidance in general terms that can be applied to all types of large fixed wing aircraft ( not helicopters ) . |
| 21 | Mark Linton , formerly a professor at Stanford University , now principal researcher at Silicon Graphics Inc , has come up with a completely new toolkit that can be applied to X-Windows . |
| 22 | There is no simple pattern or model of social change that can be applied to all villages , and there is no single continuum on which all rural communities can be placed ( see chapter 1 above ) . |
| 23 | Fortunately there are a number of useful guidelines that can be applied to both the systems on offer and the facilities you need . |
| 24 | ‘ This resulted in an extension of the available technology that can be applied to nuclear plant for process , safety and safeguarding purposes . |
| 25 | Cost , manpower and time availability will influence the number of measures that can be applied to any one public consultation exercise . |
| 26 | The user also needs to know the operations that can be applied to the relations so as to carry out the desired retrievals . |
| 27 | Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis . |
| 28 | If there is no blanket strategy that can be applied to all , then more and better individualised pain care is needed . |
| 29 | The system comes with 16Mb of ECC memory that can be expanded to 1Gb when 16Mbit chips are in full availability . |
| 30 | The supplementary allowance A weekly allowance that can be made to those in financial need who are not in receipt of a State retirement pension ( see leaflet SB1 ) . |