Example sentences of "they can be made " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In addition , they can be made to break off under a large side load and in so doing , perhaps prevent further damage being done to the fuselage .
2 Few accusations , if they can be made to stick , are more damaging in the context of Northern Irish politics where leftism has traditionally been associated with nationalism .
3 In effect what applied linguistics does is to enquire into cross-cultural accommodation : it transfers ideas and methods from different disciplinary cultures and seeks to demonstrate how they can be made coherent and effective in the different conditions of pedagogic practice .
4 Such materials have the advantage that they can be made permanently hard by heating them to a temperature around 15°C , for which reason polymers with this sort of constitution are called ‘ thermosetting ’ .
5 They can be made with either plastic or glass lenses , with convex lenses prescribed for long-sightedness , concave for short-sightedness and cylindrical for astigmatism .
6 Glass lenses are heavier , but are less likely to become scratched ; they can be made shatterproof .
7 Colours can be speckled or drawn , in patches or with smooth line ; they can be made to ‘ jump ’ or flow , overlap and , to a certain extent , rubbed into or onto others .
8 Starting out with the Boston Consultancy Group , and eventually forming his own firm , Telesis ( Greek for well-planned progress ) , Mr Magaziner specialised in advising large companies ( Ford and General Electric ) and small countries ( Sweden ) on why things cost as much as they do , and how they can be made to cost less .
9 They can be made at least two days before they are needed .
10 Nothing is said about residence orders , either that they can be made or that they can not be made ex parte .
11 Society makes certain demands and assumptions and , when families can not live up to them , they can be made to feel outcast and inadequate and this does not help their ability to cope .
12 What I want you to do is look at them and assess — in your considered opinion — whether they can be made to work or not .
13 If we wish to store and manipulate normal form programs in computers it will be worthwhile investigating this and other topics to discover how they can be made more compact .
14 4 Talk about the two stories — are there any ways in which they can be made even better ?
15 They can be made even more attractive by the addition of frills or a scalloped heading .
16 Perhaps the unsuccessful divisions can be packaged and sold off to someone who believes they can be made to work .
17 Fear trained on-site Colombian drillers , mud loggers and well superintendents and their assistants as to which PDC drill bits are the most efficient for various different formations , and how they can be made to drill faster .
18 When high roads , bridges , canals etc , are in this manner made and supported by the commerce which is carried on by means of them , they can be made only where that commerce requires them , and consequently where it is proper to make them .
19 High priority can not be given to presubmission enquiries ; in urgent cases they can be made in the form of a one-page fax .
20 Gradually too they can be made aware of differences within a particular society in the past .
21 The whole scene demonstrates admirably Britten 's approach to words and his understanding of how they can be made vehicles , both for meanings which go beyond their own familiar significations , and for a special kind of music which comes , by some alchemy , from the combination of phonemes and notes .
  Next page