Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to produce [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 More sophisticated and complex computer models of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ can be constructed to produce precise estimates for the future , but given the many untestable assumptions of ‘ epidemic ’ models ( particularly those based only on figures for known users during a relatively short time period , as in the present case ) , we did not attempt such an exercise .
2 However , Litchfield ( 1989 ) has also described examples of how aerobic sewage treatment can be manipulated to produce single-cell proteins .
3 Different indices represent the ingenuity with which the theoretical constructs can be made to produce satisfactory elaborations that result in different indices and , equally important , the extent to which different indices can , plausibly , be said to measure the same concept .
4 The process can be repeated to produce complex patterns which introduce the regular hexagon and octagon to the faces .
5 It might already have occurred to you that the routine can be varied to produce different benefits .
6 While EC competition law has nothing equivalent to the wide ‘ public-interest ’ test of UK law , Article 85(3) does permit the granting of exemptions for agreements between firms that can be shown to produce beneficial effects .
7 According to Robert Brandenberger , of Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island , hot dark matter and cosmic strings can be used to produce large-scale structures like the ones actually observed .
8 Just two colours of paint can be used to produce different colours .
9 Much early use of Logo involves the driving of a screen ‘ turtle ’ which can be used to produce mathematical shapes .
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