Example sentences of "can be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be disadvantageous to the plaintiff if , for instance , the defendant 's report paints a gloomier picture than the plaintiff 's report . |
| 2 | In the latter case , one 's evidence is likely to be discounted by both sides simultaneously , which can be frustrating to the researcher to find himself to be ‘ the pig in the middle ’ . |
| 3 | The clubs can be custom-fitted to the individual , which is another persuasive selling point , and I liked the way they sat at address and the fact that they were easy to align . |
| 4 | This can be helpful to the inexperienced selector if the pictures are a true representation of the book . |
| 5 | We need to admit that for many older churches it takes much longer to change and also that a more traditional style can be helpful to many in finding Christ personally and following him radically . |
| 6 | Clearly presented materials and a well-ordered environment can be helpful to them . |
| 7 | There are specialised optical aids which can be helpful to some visually handicapped pupils . |
| 8 | We will review your situation and explain if and how we can be helpful to you in achieving your particular goals . |
| 9 | The area microphone was retained chiefly to record all those cockpit noises such as fire alarm bells , mach warnings , landing gear and flap selector operation and the hundred and one other identifiable noises that can be helpful to investigators . |
| 10 | The use of visual aids can be helpful to your talk but they are an aid and should not substitute for what you intend to say . |
| 11 | This can be helpful to us but it may give rise to difficulties and require careful handling if the client 's writing skills leave something to be desired . |
| 12 | Formic acid can be helpful to pregnant women . |
| 13 | I can not see the necessity of the shadow cast by a half-opened drawer in the kitchen table. , It is encouraging to find Fry underlining a point about critical writing — that with a description of a work of art it can be useful to be given an explicit account of how the critic responds . |
| 14 | There are other ways of description , which may incidentally be employed by a critic , or can be useful to a reader as a check on the validity of a verbal description . |
| 15 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 16 | This can be useful to the learner-reader , providing extra cues to the text , and to ‘ the learner-learner ’ — the person learning to gather and process ideas , or the person entering a new field of knowledge or experience . |
| 17 | Contact also with organisations for the assistance of widows can be useful to some women , and one of these , CRUSE , which has already been mentioned , runs groups and an excellent counselling service . |
| 18 | When you are directly opposed by another person who is launching a strong attack , it can be useful to : |
| 19 | Assessment questionnaires and inventories can be useful to both therapist and client for a number of reasons . |
| 20 | Together , the two sets of results suggest that knowledge embodied in particular new products or processes ( i.e. specific innovations ) may be too use-specific to spill over , while disembodied knowledge ( proxied by measures of R&D expenditure ) can be useful to a wide range of firms in a range of other sectors . |
| 21 | She can be useful to them . |
| 22 | Since the text provides you with so much material , it may not be obvious why dictionaries , encyclopedias and other books in the reference section of your library can be useful to you . |
| 23 | Whilst the first alternative can be effective to some extent , there is a limit to which expenditure of this kind can be reduced . |
| 24 | it can be susceptible to a headteacher who is good at public relations management . |
| 25 | Sine [ by the minimality of c ] no pi can be equal to any qi , we may assume [ WLOG ] that |
| 26 | While there are problems if cattle and sheep are allowed to overgraze pasture , there would appear to be ample evidence to suggest that grazing cattle and sheep on natural grassland can be beneficial to maintaining an ecological balance . |
| 27 | Alcohol taken in moderation can be beneficial to health . |
| 28 | Without the gun but armed with suitable words , symbols or grimaces , a pointing gesture can be intimidating to the recipient . |
| 29 | As spina bifida can result from incomplete closure of the neural tube , so abnormalities in the development of the gut can be due to failure of tubes to seal properly . |
| 30 | This is well known for oxygen , and can be due to a specific cellular orientation , and a spatial orientation of connective tissue of glycoproteins , collagen and other biopolymers . |