Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , it can be concluded for both the UK ( Best , 1976 ) and for the EEC ( Best , 1979 ) that although there are major differences within countries , notably in the relative areas devoted to woodland and urban land , that there is a common pattern of land loss to both urban use and woodland as shown in Figure 8.1 . |
| 2 | While nothing definitive can be concluded from such meagre data , the fact that such examples do seem to suggest different impressions than the to infinitive to speakers of various dialects indicates that they deserve closer attention , especially in the light of a further examination of the passive voice . |
| 3 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
| 4 | What then can be concluded from this debate ? |
| 5 | It can be concluded from these data that a ZNF11 gene duplication event occurred relatively recently in the evolution of the human lineage . |
| 6 | However , detailed observations of a variety of teachers using the same material ( see , for example , reference 2 ) immediately reveals the wide range of teaching styles that are used and the apparent ease with which almost any material can be absorbed into any style . |
| 7 | Prosecutions by local authorities under the Act of 1950 have little deterrent effect , because the increased sales are such that fines at the level presently authorised under the statute can be absorbed by large retailers as a relatively small increase in their costs , though the same is not true of small shops with their much lower sales . |
| 8 | Gay women can be absorbed in any aspect of the women 's movement , ’ she says . |
| 9 | From nine months to four years a child can use a seat in the back that faces forwards and which can be secured by rear seat belts or their anchorage points . |
| 10 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 11 | Probably they would have had no application to W. , but even where they are applicable it may be in the long-term interests of the minor that if the same treatment can be secured upon some other basis , this shall be done . |
| 12 | Despite hopes that some tasks inappropriate to junior doctors can be delegated to other groups of staff the new deal on juniors ' hours risks worsening the situation by increasing the intensity of work still further , notwithstanding the shorter working week . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well we generally aim to have I suppose most of our lectures at an A level standard , but we have a significant number for those doing O level , indeed some lectures which can be tailored for either , so anybody very mucg below O level we probably could n't cater for — I think probably because we would n't feel competent , rather than because we do n't want to do it . |
| 15 | Written in C and C++ , the software comes with what the firm calls a universal dictionary — a set of object mechanisms which can be tailored to individual requirements — and an inference engine , which generates the SQL statements . |
| 16 | Written in C and C++ , the software comes with what the firm calls a universal dictionary — a set of object mechanisms which can be tailored to individual requirements — and an inference engine which generates the SQL statements . |
| 17 | This awareness has driven us to evolve new systems that can be tailored to local needs and which reflect current advances in auditing techniques . ’ |
| 18 | Thus the cleaning can be tailored to different surfaces . |
| 19 | The division between health and social needs can be narrowed by joint training . |
| 20 | It is an attempt to partition the intellectual content of a subject area so that individual elements can be mapped to recognisable and clearly defined sub-areas . |
| 21 | Although types of users can be mapped onto these specific functions , this restricts the generality and flexibility of the curriculum . |
| 22 | What phenomena can be mapped from such imagery ? |
| 23 | But we will suppose that our researcher is cautious in making claims , and so might wish to extend the enquiry and see whether the same results can be replicated with different subjects doing different tasks . |
| 24 | They form spontaneously in the waters of our planet without the elaborate ‘ machinery ’ that DNA needs ; and they develop flaws spontaneously , some of which can be replicated in subsequent layers of crystal . |
| 25 | A general concept can be exemplified by any number of particular instances which need not stand in any causal relation with each other . |
| 26 | What can be gathered from such figures as are available , are trends in disease prevalence and changes in the geographical patterns of infection . |
| 27 | The material for the newspaper reports can be gathered in four main ways . |
| 28 | It is good advice for there is no substitute for the sort of general information that can be gathered in this way . |
| 29 | Massey agrees that the fate of entities which are part of large spatially diverse enterprises can be related to explicit planning decisions , but considers that it is dangerous to somehow regard such actions as ‘ worse ’ than the consequences of the anonymous system forces of capitalism as manifested through market relations . |
| 30 | The supposedly most securely dated vessels are those which can be related to Continental chronologies ; vessels which occur on the Continent but not in England date to before the migration , those on both sides of the North Sea to the migration period itself , and those which are only found in England must have developed after the migration period . |