Example sentences of "it can be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this ‘ strategic ’ information is to nought unless it can be transmitted to the organisation 's ‘ strategic decision makers ’ . |
| 2 | It can be transmitted to humans by contact with contaminated water , through a cut or graze , contact with moist soil , or by direct contact with rats . |
| 3 | He wrote to James Conant , President of Harvard , before they both attended the meeting : ‘ I am not sure the miserable thing will work nor that it can be gotten to the target except by ox-cart . |
| 4 | In fact , when the sex act takes place only when progeny is desired then it can be referred to as married brahmacārya . |
| 5 | Ontological existents are a sub-species of possible topics of discourse , and any topic of discourse , qua topic of discourse , is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " ; with " A " being a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 6 | That a topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as the same is an analytic proposition setting out part of what " topic of discourse " means . |
| 7 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |
| 8 | While both these objections have truth to them , it is also clear that a range of critical writings which share more preoccupations than differences has emerged and that it can be contrasted to other forms of writing about texts and history . |
| 9 | The charcoal-grey cartridge paper is a standard product , widely used , easy to use in the ways described - for example it can be fixed to walls with Blu-Tack - and its performance appears to be adequate . |
| 10 | When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . |
| 11 | The document is especially interesting in retrospect because it can be seen to be a fairly crude thought about the need to escape the deadening effects of 16+ examining . |
| 12 | Having examined Christianity , he recognizes that if it is true ( as it claims to be and as the third level promises to show how it can be seen to be ) , it does provide the necessary answer . |
| 13 | Though the panther 's coat looks totally black , in certain lights it can be seen to be patterned with even darker spots . |
| 14 | Finally , the particle hmm is not dismissable as just a " performance error " or a " filled pause " ; it has specific interactional functions , best explicated in terms of the system for taking turns at speaking in conversation , where it can be seen to be ( amongst other things ) a turn-holding device ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 15 | It can be applied to all kinds of objective situations or none at all . |
| 16 | It can be applied to a range of activities which may vary in cost and scale and necessitate planning over differing time spans . |
| 17 | This method is particularly valuable , since it can be applied to deposits produced by prehistoric eruptions , for which of course there are no observer 's records . |
| 18 | In this paper expert systems technology is explained and shown how it can be applied to ‘ real ’ aircraft maintenance problems . |
| 19 | It can be applied to any arena in which people need to work together — an office , factory , club or even the Government . |
| 20 | It can be applied to variable-length records by padding or the use of fixed-length buckets for variable records , as discussed previously . |
| 21 | This is the technique of flash photolysis , and again it can be applied to gaseous or to liquid samples . |
| 22 | Our other theme , the more general study of homoclinic orbits and bifurcations , is perhaps of even greater importance because it can be applied to other systems of equations as well { 2,9 , 10,20 } . |
| 23 | Taking in too much protein will result in you putting on weight , as it can be converted to fat . |
| 24 | It can be converted to a useful equivalent form by making the replacement where m is the rest mass of the test body . |
| 25 | Once the hydrogen is produced it can be converted to other fuel forms such as methanol . |
| 26 | It can be kept to a minimum by proper safety guidelines , of which there seem to be plenty . |
| 27 | It will be dealt with in a later chapter , when it can be related to the idea of a ‘ Created God ’ , which it is the primary purpose of this book to put forward . |
| 28 | It can be related to Sinclair 's observation that examples of English are sometimes given which the analysis of actual data reveals do not in fact occur ( see page 76 ) . |
| 29 | When , within the wider discursive context , it can be related to ‘ typical ( mindless ) working-class collectivism ’ , it is tolerated ; transmuted into the beery conviviality of a pop group like Slade , the culture represented by such chants can be patronized . |
| 30 | In this respect it can be related to the idea of a well-formed substring table which records all the legal subparts of a sequence of symbols . |