Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] to [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Asking for change can be likened to persuading someone to climb a mountain . |
| 2 | It can be likened to becoming ‘ them ’ or no longer being ‘ us ’ , for I had further increased my distance from the working lives of the ‘ real polises ’ and had moved out of their known world to become an outsider , a liminal mover . |
| 3 | The editorial matter can be biased to presenting a favourable buying climate for speculative stocks . |
| 4 | The backswing can be compared to chopping down a tree with and axe ; power and speed come from the distance the axe is swung back . |
| 5 | Many of the games suggested can be applied to sorting toys with suitable adaptation . |
| 6 | There are two approaches which can be adopted to charging for the service : |
| 7 | Consideration can be given to producing a leaflet or , for virtually no cost , standard letters can be adapted into information sheets to be given to new and potential clients ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 8 | of this , it says t a report detailing what assistance can be given to keeping the airfield open . |
| 9 | Given the protests against inserting the principle of " juste retour " into the EC budget , much greater emphasis can be given to relating national payments to relative GNPs . |
| 10 | Before serious thought can be given to designing general population interventions , there needs to be an accumulation of clear results from experimental targeted interventions for people coping with one particular life event or chronic strain . |
| 11 | The reduction in host overhead should mean that more MIPS can be devoted to executing the transaction processing application , executing more transactions , and supporting more users and more applications . |
| 12 | The interference of one surface with another can be reduced to handling only those sub-surfaces where possible interference exists . |
| 13 | If the operator is following a linear feature , such as a contour line , the digitizer can be switched to streaming mode and the location of the pointer recorded at some specified time interval , such as every tenth of a second . |
| 14 | In this period of the last decades of the twentieth century there is much evidence of a decline in the standards of human behaviour , and this , unquestionably , can be attributed to faltering human consciences . |
| 15 | Lucinda believes that much of her success when riding cross country can be attributed to walking the course correctly , and throughout the video she leads the viewer from the start to the finish of a cross country course . |
| 16 | Education , too , can be directed to encouraged certain ideals . |