Example sentences of "[det] can be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Again this can be turned to the researcher 's advantage .
5 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 .
6 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 ’ .
7 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 .
8 This can be regarded as support for the view that such meteorites typify much of the material from which the three planets accreted .
9 From the present viewpoint this can be regarded as the time component of the metric equation for space–time round a spherically symmetric mass .
10 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 .
11 This can be upgraded to the Pentium chip when it becomes available in the second quarter this year .
12 This can be accessed within seconds by police officers across the country .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 This can be likened to Jung 's ‘ collective unconscious ’ .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 This can be related to the polymer molecular weight M 2 through so that and finally
23 This can be reached by a well maintained serpentine path down the steep slope .
24 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 .
25 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 ’ .
26 In shorthand this can be expressed as .
27 This can be expressed as the frictional coefficient for the chain , again within the tube confines .
28 This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency .
29 This can be expressed by people saying that they feel they want a child for their fulfilment as human beings .
30 The authority of government therefore is limited ; and this can be expressed by saying that certain rights of the individual and of the private association are safeguarded .
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