Example sentences of "can be [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall responsibility for the organisation of the ward learning programme can be delegated to one particular member of staff , but everyone in the ward team should participate . |
| 2 | The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree . |
| 3 | With a many-to-many ( m:n ) relationship , each entity can be related to one or more occurrences of the partner entity . |
| 4 | The block diagram is highly versatile as a spatial representation of any process at any level , that is the same process can be represented by one block or by very many blocks which provide more detail . |
| 5 | When open , only half with width of the door projects into the room , but the whole contents of the cupboard can be seen at one glance . |
| 6 | The creation of formalised ( specialised ) pastoral systems can be seen as one of the most limiting aspects of school organisation . |
| 7 | Without making excessive claims , the emphasis on particular trees , fruits , and plants , can be seen as one of several points at which this slight poem connects with physical and historical reality . |
| 8 | If we analyse the street-comer activity of doing nothing in groups in the light of always hoping that something will happen , then the creation and the putting into effect of ‘ ideas ’ by the group can be seen as one of the most significant group experiences . |
| 9 | In its beginnings , therefore , modern nationalism can be seen as one aspect of a class movement which found political expression in a general struggle for democracy ; manifesting itself most clearly in the American Revolution — interpreted by some scholars as the formation of the ‘ first new nation ’ ( Lipset , 1967 ) — and in the French Revolution , which together established the model of a new kind of political system embodying the ideas of ‘ citizenship ’ and ‘ popular sovereignty ’ . |
| 10 | This can be done with one trainee/one instructor or with one instructor in the role of parent and all trainees acting in consort . |
| 11 | This can be done with one frame or strip of film , or the stages can involve successive strips and rephotographing , although with some possible loss of quality each time . |
| 12 | This can be done with one of the most attractive arguments at the teachers ' disposal , students ' work ; a contrast can be made with the kind of work which students undertook in the 1960s and 1970s , an example of which is included in Figure 1.2 . |
| 13 | Anaesthetising the wound can be done in one of three ways : infiltration , regional block or topical application . |
| 14 | Described in two pitches , it can be done in one long runout . |
| 15 | Taking out an endowment on a joint mortgage can be done in one of two ways . |
| 16 | This can be done in one of three ways : 1 . |
| 17 | For a first call session player the A2 can be expanded to one of the most comprehensive sound libraries a guitarist can buy . |
| 18 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
| 19 | These mutations can be transmitted from one generation to the next in breeding studies . |
| 20 | Plasmids do not construct for themselves special protein coats to enable them to survive outside their host cells , but can be transmitted from one bacterial cell to another if those cells come into contact . |
| 21 | But many migratory creatures have such precise geographical instincts that one wonders just how so detailed a knowledge of local terrain can be transmitted from one generation to another without the involvement of any learning process . |
| 22 | In co-operating animals , the mutual benefits of working together can be greatly enhanced if information about the state of the external world can be transmitted from one individual to another . |
| 23 | The Germans have clearly demonstrated by their heavy exactions and by their systematic exploitation of the occupied territories that very large contributions , in labour and in goods , as well as in money , can be collected from one country for the benefit of another . |
| 24 | Timber for construction needs to be acquired only from time to time , and enough firewood can be collected in one journey to last several months . |
| 25 | Now , this can be achieved in one or other of two contrasting ways . |
| 26 | A forecast of the likely total available market for the period can be achieved in one of two ways , thus : a ) the total market : may be estimated from statistics made available by trade associations , government statistical publications and specialist market research agencies . |
| 27 | At present houses throughout Britain are being valued so they can be placed into one of eight value brackets . |
| 28 | All fossils found anywhere in the world in rocks of this age can be placed in one or other of those three main groups we identified on the reef . |
| 29 | Once Theta has been identified , attention can be turned to one of the most intriguing objects in the sky — the strange , erratic variable Eta Carinæ , with its associated nebulosity . |
| 30 | The leaves and soil around plants outside can be treated with one of the above chemicals or with Gamma BHC Dust . |