Example sentences of "can be [verb] [verb] 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 | The group can be asked to respond to what one individual has just said ; or it can focus discussion on one individual at a time ; or the counsellor can ensure that the group discusses general or shared problems , or that it links and compares different problems faced by individuals within the group . |
| 3 | The Speaker can be asked to agree to an emergency debate on a definite matter of urgent public importance . |
| 4 | Each of these centres can be analysed according to its size , both in retail composition and in area covered on the ground . |
| 5 | Each of these premises can be seen acting to a greater or lesser degree in the siting of any particular settlement . |
| 6 | The nits , also brown in colour , can be seen attached to the pubic hair , and examination with a magnifying glass will distinguish those containing a developing larva , which takes a week before it leaves the egg , from those which have already been vacated . |
| 7 | This solution can be seen to reduce to the Khan-Penrose solution ( 3.9 ) when . |
| 8 | The plus sign can be seen to correspond to the vertical-slope points of the characteristic of Fig. 7.2 ( further analysis shows that the intervening negative slope branches are unstable ) . |
| 9 | It is quite impossible , and very misleading to suggest , that pruning can be done according to the calendar . |
| 10 | The behaviour of bodies can be evaluated according to criteria , as beautiful or ugly , sane or mad . |
| 11 | As the ageing body loses its ability to cope with alcohol , the amount that can be consumed has to be reduced . |
| 12 | Experiments show that bees can be trained to come to sugar solutions in response to an artificial magnetic field . |
| 13 | Both can be trained to work to the net in the dark . |
| 14 | — which can give preference to one sense when other factors are equal ; and can be biased according to sublanguage/domain ; |
| 15 | Similarly , when ordering using heuristics , the number of links between two probes can be weighted according to the grey-levels |
| 16 | Sexual activities can be ranked according to estimated risk . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All the fonts you create can be sized according to what you want . |
| 19 | Although the chief focus of this chapter is the ‘ house ’ and ‘ home ’ , it should also be kept in mind that this can be extended to apply to any circumstances or environment to which a woman gives structure and form . |
| 20 | Assets can be compared according to two criteria : liquidity and the possibility of earning income . |
| 21 | In addition , or on inland waters a dayglo orange flag is sufficient , which can be waved to indicate to onlookers that you are in difficulty . |
| 22 | Furthermore , these microparticles are available in various sizes and can be obtained coupled to other fluorochromes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Or is there any sense in which those who oppose and vote against a particular policy or decision can be said to assent to it , or can be said to be governing themselves when they have voted against the policy that has been adopted ? |
| 25 | But the long period of non-use can be said to amount to a custom , and to create a reasonable expectation that the pattern of restraint should continue in the future ( O'Brien , 1967 , pp. 79–80 ) . |
| 26 | These words can be re-grouped according to the syntactic categories of noun , verb , adjective and adverb . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | In hospital , the parents can be enabled to spend as much time as they wish with their sick child , and efforts can be made to keep to the child 's familiar routines ( Rutter , 1979b ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Although this seems to refer to a significantly later period , it can be made to relate to Mallia 's early economy , in which some surplus food was stored in the larger private houses . |