Example sentences of "can be measured " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader in this situation has a choice : the work in an exhibition can be measured against the artists ' manifesto ; or the critic 's interpretation and assessment can be used . |
| 2 | There are some aspects of a work of art which can be measured , for example its size , natural or chemical composition , and some facts can be discovered about works through specialist techniques such as infra-red photography . |
| 3 | Demand can be measured or estimated . |
| 4 | The reliability of the statistical estimates can be measured by a coefficient of determination , Rs . |
| 5 | The success of the year can be measured by the number of Branches that deserve special mention . |
| 6 | First , they act as a standard against which the results of other tests ( below ) can be measured . |
| 7 | Instrumental neutron activation is still selected most frequently because of its sensitivity , accuracy and the wide range of elements which can be measured in a single sample . |
| 8 | In conventional radiocarbon dating the maximum age that can be measured is determined by the count rate , additional to that from 14 C , caused by radiation in the environment . |
| 9 | In principle , therefore , if the three factors on the right-hand side of the equation can be measured , then the pot can be dated . |
| 10 | However , even if the natural TL signal can be measured , the dating of both glass and slags is rarely satisfactory : glass gives problems because of its transparency , which allows the TL signal to be bleached by light ( see below ) , and slag can be very inhomogenous in its radioactivity content . |
| 11 | The outline of such an axe can be measured very precisely and processed by various techniques of coordinate geometry ( including , incidentally , one originally invented by marine engineers to measure the shape of ship hulls ) to give a final mathematical ‘ fingerprint ’ of the axe 's shape . |
| 12 | ‘ Our relationship can be measured in hours , my strange beauty . |
| 13 | Its success can be measured by how it has moved Labour to the right of the Heath Tory government . |
| 14 | However , the IEA is now turning its attention to environmental auditing and has launched a national Environmental Auditors Registration Board to provide professional accreditation for environmental auditors along with a set of draft criteria against which the quality of the environmental statements produced for the EC eco-audit scheme can be measured . |
| 15 | We have to take great care to select the visual environment so that its effect can be measured . |
| 16 | It is a process which can be measured and monitored , but not seen . |
| 17 | Haussmann 's success can be measured in gallons : in 1860 27,000,000 gallons a day poured into Paris ( in one form or another ) , by 1870 it was some 80,000,000 . |
| 18 | They provide a standard against which cleaning staff activities can be measured . |
| 19 | Thirdly , as I said , it can be measured , and it is important that it should be measured in a way that is independent of moral considerations . |
| 20 | It can be measured in crude cash terms — the one which politicians focus on — as well as the real innovations of the past decade . |
| 21 | All common chemicals such as metal salts , acids , alkalis , conductive salts and buffers can be analysed , and various parameters can be measured simultaneously . |
| 22 | Sodium chloride can be measured between 0 and 19.99 percentage weight and temperature between 0 and 100°C . |
| 23 | The two small maps show how the detours can be measured . |
| 24 | B. Transport difficulties can be measured by a detour index . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , for some non-oil LDCs such reserves can be measured in terms of weeks rather than months . |
| 26 | These contaminants can be measured in their airborne state and evaluated against the Threshold Limit Value ( TLV ) for the particular substance . |
| 27 | Whibley 's effectiveness can be measured by the fact that he retained his position on the Palace flank while assisting us from Southern League also-rans to 3rd Division champions , and to a dignified place in Division Two . |
| 28 | Many teachers argue that the more important things that they are concerned with , the ‘ something more ’ , are qualities that can not be measured by tests of competence ; if teaching is geared to what can be measured , objectives in other words , then these important qualities will be omitted and both the teaching and students will be the poorer . |
| 29 | The structure is continuously connected in a random way but the coordination of sodium or calcium as well as silicon now matches values that can be measured directly using the EXAFS technique . |
| 30 | Few astronomers , if any , doubt that this process explains the redshift in the light of ordinary galaxies , and because observations of nearby galaxies ( whose distance can be measured in other ways ) show that their redshifts are proportional to their distances from us , it is assumed that measuring the redshift of a very remote object , whose distance can not be measured directly , tells us how far away it is . |