Example sentences of "can [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 Another example that can loosely be referred to as scavenging is bone collecting by harvester ants ( Shipman & Walker , 1980 ) .
2 There is wide agreement that the recent forest damage can predominantly be ascribed to atmospheric pollution even if there remains uncertainty concerning which pollutants are to blame at which locations and what the response mechanisms are for triggering damage , as well as over how the contributing natural stress factors should be weighted ( Hinrichsen , 1986 ) .
3 This led him to doubt whether authentic religious belief can properly be tied to and bound up with particular historical events .
4 It now remains to ask what to many is the most difficult question , whether , given that the services are available , albeit on a limited basis , they can properly be denied to certain patients.3 This raises not only the issue of fairness or justice , but also that of selective treatment and respect for life .
5 If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion .
6 If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion .
7 If one manages to find the simplest method at the first attempt that can mostly be attributed to good luck .
8 Conduire ( literally , ‘ to guide along a path ’ : to give direction ) can presumably be compared to dirigieren ; but I doubt that battre la mesure can be likened to tactieren .
9 The Minister will know that , contrary to the Government 's views about linking business with the environment — we all agree that coal can successfully be converted to coke — for some reason the Coalite works in Bolsover seems to be polluting the whole environment .
10 But with the hindsight of Frey 's distinction ( also Regan 's ) between having an interest and something 's being in one 's interest , this route is denied Singer because water , sunlight , and even perhaps preservation , in tune with the tree 's needs , can rightly be said to be in its interests .
11 Much of your attention as a manager can sensibly be directed to learning how to simplify , organize and present data for descriptive purposes .
12 This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) .
13 Threads can run on uni-processor systems as well as multi-processors , but can obviously be employed to greater advantage on the latter .
14 The solution procedure for TRPs can obviously be applied to TPs but certain special features arise from the extra structure .
15 The logic of exploiting the perception gap between the real cost of benefits and their perceived value to the employee can obviously be applied to other benefits .
16 She may have been aged as young as 12 , the legal age of maturity for women ( her parents ' marriage can perhaps be dated to 829 ) and so about seven years younger than Charles .
17 Competition fighting can perhaps be likened to a game of chess ; a player only improves by continually playing against another chess player better than himself .
18 For example , the probable universal existence of tag-questions ( under a functional definition ) can perhaps be related to the universal operation of rules of turn-taking that allow as one option the ending of current speaker 's turn by a selection of a next speaker .
19 The need for such periodic major reports can perhaps be attributed to the structures of authority and seniority in the professions , which seem to necessitate periodic revolution rather than the research-led rolling evolution which is more typical of ‘ academic ’ subjects .
20 The slow down in the rate of growth in the Eurocurrency market-growth that has been just about static since the early 1980's — can perhaps be attributed to the fact that domestic markets have become increasingly deregulated , while the foreign currency activities of domestic banks have become increasingly regulated by domestic central banks .
21 alcohol can only be served to persons taking table meals .
22 If the target is eventually sold for a profit , the benefit of the realised reserves can only be transferred to the original purchaser ( by dividend ) if the IHC has adequate distributable resources .
23 While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product .
24 Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty .
25 In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule-governed when some other alternative actions are possible .
26 The existence of the debt can only be said to be a ‘ burden ’ if the government is constrained in its use of lump-sum taxes .
27 The supporters of O M O V have put their arguments in what can only be said to be a ham-fisted and insulting way .
28 National rules in the member states where services are provided can only be applied to the extent that the public interest requires it , and after due account is taken of the national rules applied to the company in the member state of establishment .
29 It is felt that this approach provides a general procedure having wide applications , instead of producing a very specific " tailor made " system that can only be applied to one company .
30 Styles can only be applied to whole paragraphs , and the formatting details are stored in the markers which occur at the end of each paragraph .
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