Example sentences of "this can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total measurement of scallops and spaces is longer than the pole length , but this can be lost by increasing the size of one or two pleats . |
| 2 | Depending on the expert and the case you may need to do all or any of the following : summarise the facts of the case and the legal issues ; ask specific questions and indicate their legal significance ; ask whether any further evidence is likely to be available , so that this can be sought on discovery ; and whether any further enquiries , tests or reports are necessary . |
| 3 | Suppose that an individual has to put up 100 per cent margin ( i.e. has to pay the full amount of the investment Pf from the start ) but that this can be invested at the riskless rate r . |
| 4 | Again this can be turned to the researcher 's advantage . |
| 5 | And when you score a cracker of a goal , you can watch it again on the slow-motion replay ( this can be turned off ) . |
| 6 | This can be regarded as symbolic . |
| 7 | Papinian is discussing whether , if a non-heir builds a monument , this can be regarded as a negotium gestum and the costs charged to the heir . |
| 8 | The directors may , for instance , make gifts to the employees , but only where this can be regarded as ‘ an inducement to them to exert themselves in future , or as an act done reasonably for the purpose of getting the greatest profit from the business ’ . |
| 9 | If the injury due to the escape of the noxious thing would not have occurred but for the unusual sensitiveness of the plaintiff 's property , there is some conflict of authority whether this can be regarded as default of the plaintiff . |
| 10 | This can be regarded as support for the view that such meteorites typify much of the material from which the three planets accreted . |
| 11 | From the present viewpoint this can be regarded as the time component of the metric equation for space–time round a spherically symmetric mass . |
| 12 | But for an ordinary church service this can be regarded as absolutely matter of fact . |
| 13 | There is nothing to stop the parties specifically preventing the expert from pursuing his own investigations and limiting his consideration of evidence to the material submitted by the parties ; this can be attended to at this stage , if it has not been already provided for in the expert clause : see 8.15.8 . |
| 14 | This can be upgraded to the Pentium chip when it becomes available in the second quarter this year . |
| 15 | This can be accessed even if the machine wo n't boot . |
| 16 | This can be accessed within seconds by police officers across the country . |
| 17 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |
| 18 | Sometimes , but not always , the author has supplied a list of plates and where they should appear in the book ; sometimes , but not always , this can be relied upon , since plates apparently missing have an odd habit of turning up in some other spot ; sometimes , but not always , the plates themselves are numbered , which makes life easier . |
| 19 | An erosion surface should show up as an excess in a certain range of altitude and this can be revealed by a device such as a hypsographic curve , which aims to depict the overall distribution of elevation and is usually used to illustrate the earth 's major relief features . |
| 20 | Like the computers made by Acorn , this can be plugged into what is called a local area network — a system of wires and terminals that connects small computers within a building . |
| 21 | If there is a significant urethritis , this can be adduced by first sample can be spun down and the solid matter can be stained and microscopically examined . |
| 22 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 23 | In detail this can be subdivided , e.g. rias and fjords . |
| 24 | This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines . |
| 25 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 26 | This can be likened to Jung 's ‘ collective unconscious ’ . |
| 27 | Lastly , the hearth has to be tended , constantly supplied with fuel , and this can be likened to the need for the home to be paid ongoing care and attention , the absence of which will be felt as a cold and empty atmosphere . |
| 28 | This can be developed by regarding organisms as chemodynamical machines , by identifying three classes of bioenergetic processes namely fermentation , photosynthesis , and respiration , and by utilizing an approach to classification based upon microphysiology and biochemistry as well as upon macrostructure of organisms and upon macrophysiological processes . |
| 29 | This can be developed thus ( in pairs ) : 1 . |
| 30 | This can be related to the concern in Derrida 's work with the politics of feminism and other positions which contest institutional and political appropriation and exclusion . |