Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Children 's co-operation can be secured by guiding and helping them towards some desirable action or way of thought . |
| 4 | The division between health and social needs can be narrowed by joint training . |
| 5 | The village of Villasimius , four miles away , can be reached by occasional local buses or may be explored by taking Citalia 's new excursion . |
| 6 | The bars are on the ground floor and can be reached by separate entrances : the vault bar from the street and the lounge bar from the front of the hotel . |
| 7 | Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister , on Jan. 21 and again on Jan. 22 declared that if " a new and more broadly based agreement can be reached by direct discussions and negotiations with all the parties involved , the Irish government will be prepared to contemplate , in agreement with the British government , a new and better-structured agreement or arrangement to transcend the existing one " . |
| 8 | All can be reached by public transport and offer quiet and relaxing woodland walks . |
| 9 | Thus , the amount of sulphate given in this study can be reached by dietary means in a proportion of people . |
| 10 | If the acceleration of a system occurs over a small number of steps then the phase excitation timings can be generated by digital integrated circuits . |
| 11 | The most important point is that rather flat-lying arrays can be generated by feasible mixing models despite the involvement of a plume endmember with fairly high Nd . |
| 12 | The kind of non-randomness that can be generated by simple sieving is roughly equivalent to opening a combination lock with one one dial : it is easy to open it by sheer luck . |
| 13 | Similarly , the muscular output — the withdrawal response — can be generated by direct stimulation of the output nerves from motor neurons to the gill muscles . |
| 14 | Contrariwise , pseudoperceptions , ranging from crude , unformed noises and flashes of light through to complex scenes with accompanying meanings and emotions , can be generated by spontaneous discharges of the brain or in the laboratory by stimulating electrodes . |
| 15 | Over 30 phenotypes of α 1 AT can be differentiated by isoelectric focusing . |
| 16 | All that statutory reforms have done as yet is to make piecemeal extensions of the remedies afforded to members so that they can be invoked by personal representatives of members . |
| 17 | Instead it is an add-in which once attached can be invoked by pressing Shift and a function key . |
| 18 | Similarly the equilibrium between solid and liquid can be represented by Solid — Liquid The equilibrium between solid and its vapour is represented by Solid — Vapour In each case the two phase transitions are the reverse of one another . |
| 19 | The definition of p is such that the averaged expectation value of any quantum operator Q is given by As a quantum-mechanical operator , p obeys the Heisenberg equation of motion A major advantage of the density-matrix formulation is that it is easy to augment this equation by terms representing the interactions not accounted for in H. In the cases of interest , these can be represented by simple excitation and decay terms . |
| 20 | Notice that periodic waves that are even functions of time , that is , symmetric about the time origin , can be represented by a constant and just cosine waves , while waves that are odd functions of time , that is , reversed in sign about the time origin , can be represented by just sine waves . |
| 21 | Obviously , using A to Z as the basic character set , 26 subjects can be represented by single character notation . |
| 22 | When Ikeda in 1979 performed a stability analysis starting from the full Maxwell-Bloch equations , with propagation effects included { 22 } , he discovered an apparently distinct family of instabilities , and indeed chaotic behaviour , which will be the dominant topic of the remainder of this section ( as Lugiato { 26 } has pointed out , these phenomena are not actually distinct from the Bonifacio-Lugiato instabilities , and can be analysed by similar methods ) . |
| 23 | This DNA can be analysed by various methods , including full base sequencing . |
| 24 | Second , how to create aesthetic forms which are seen to deal with this successfully ( that is , which can be internalised by disabled people in struggle ) . |
| 25 | Individuals go to bed later or earlier than average on certain occasions , as can be seen by close inspection of Fig. 2.2 . |
| 26 | That this is so can be seen by contrasting sentences such as those evoked in Chapter 1 and repeated here : ( 1a ) I had nine people to call . |
| 27 | Providing that the construction logic is understood , this can be done by preserving work sequences in activities |
| 28 | Alternatively , it can be done by individual companies and by retailers . |
| 29 | Alternatively this can be done by decimal subdivision . |
| 30 | ‘ If that can be done by private firms , then that is what I must go for . ’ |