Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temporary workers can be differentiated according to whether ( at least in the layman 's eyes ) they are directly employed , self-employed or the employee of a third party such as an agency . |
| 2 | Each of these centres can be analysed according to its size , both in retail composition and in area covered on the ground . |
| 3 | Each of these premises can be seen acting to a greater or lesser degree in the siting of any particular settlement . |
| 4 | It is quite impossible , and very misleading to suggest , that pruning can be done according to the calendar . |
| 5 | The behaviour of bodies can be evaluated according to criteria , as beautiful or ugly , sane or mad . |
| 6 | — which can give preference to one sense when other factors are equal ; and can be biased according to sublanguage/domain ; |
| 7 | Similarly , when ordering using heuristics , the number of links between two probes can be weighted according to the grey-levels |
| 8 | Sexual activities can be ranked according to estimated risk . |
| 9 | The major attraction of a fully-fledged GIS is that it gives access to large volumes of cartographic and attribute data which can be manipulated according to the needs of the user and the flexibility of the system software . |
| 10 | All the fonts you create can be sized according to what you want . |
| 11 | Assets can be compared according to two criteria : liquidity and the possibility of earning income . |
| 12 | Within any major class characterized on the basis of its gating properties subclasses can be defined according to their ionic selectivity , but also according to their er pharmacological properties , and especially as we 'll see in a second , according to their single channel conductance . |
| 13 | These words can be re-grouped according to the syntactic categories of noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 14 | In a series of articles published under the title Problems in General Linguistics , Benveniste demonstrates with particular reference to the temporal and pronominal systems of the French language that linguistic items can be distinguished according to whether they include a reference to the moment or position of the utterance of a statement ( énonciation ) . |
| 15 | Rosen said an Australian intelligence agent told him that the word is now out in South-East Asia that money can be made selling to investigators and journalists phoney samples of ‘ contaminated ’ articles . |
| 16 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 17 | * Explore how the text can be understood according to a classificatory system ( see pp. 54 – 5 ) . |
| 18 | Regulation can also be categorised as formal or informal in that it can be set according to statutes and rules , or set informally through self regulation or some form of implicit agreement . |
| 19 | Following Rauh ( 1983 ) , Green talks about a " cline of deictic activity " ( Section 7 ) along which discourse types can be ordered according to their distance from the canonical situation of utterance . |
| 20 | The spacing between the motifs can be varied according to the effect required on your particular garment but the following points will help you achieve a better result . |
| 21 | The vegetables can be varied according to the season ; try it with sweetcorn , green beans and flageolet beans for a change . |
| 22 | If there is an honest portrayal of human life and relationships , however extreme , we consider that a production can be judged according to the canons of aesthetic criticism . |
| 23 | For management purposes , wounds can be grouped according to their potential for contamination . |
| 24 | They are a classificatory device in the form of a limited number of recognisable patterns into which industrial relations arrangements can be grouped according to their common elements . |
| 25 | The different financial intermediaries can be grouped according to the types of deposit taking and lending in which they specialize . |
| 26 | The worms can be graded according to size , simply by shaking the harvested worms in some water in a small bottle . |
| 27 | The species still lives in the seas off Florida today The specimen is 6 cm long — but like all gastropods , smaller or larger specimens can be found according to growth . |
| 28 | At one moment Beveridge can be found looking to the exchanges for the ‘ discouragement ’ of ‘ blind-alley ’ work , but he also warned against starting out with ‘ the idea of rigidly prescribing all but the best employments … |
| 29 | Evaluation can be classified according to the method used for the collection and analysis of information . |
| 30 | State organizations can be classified according to which function is furthered by their budgets . |