Example sentences of "can be set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this monologic Amis can be set , by way of alter ego , the modernistic Amis of Barbara Everett 's discussion of Difficulties with girls , which occurred in the course of an essay on Hugh Kenner 's fantasy of a British betrayal of Modernism , and which springs the surprise of conveying that Amis , so often supposed an enemy of Modernism , is really a Modernist . |
| 2 | Hardy bog plants propagated earlier can be set out in their permanent positions at the poolside . |
| 3 | Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes . |
| 4 | Speed of response can be set over a range of five steps , and may well have to be reset because , particularly in graphics mode , if it is too sensitive , loading up several movement commands into the buffer will require having to wait for them to clear . |
| 5 | The corporate communiqué can be set out on anything from regulation A4 paper with a staple in the corner , to grandiose box presentations containing ‘ sampler ’ cassettes or compact discs previewing the alleged highlights of a forthcoming release . |
| 6 | Political leaders , where they can be set apart from the party , may help to shape a party 's image . |
| 7 | Entire departments can be set up , in health , foreign affairs , agriculture , trade , finance , education , justice , religion , information and social welfare . |
| 8 | A week in a one-star hotel in Madrid can be set up by Time Off ( 01-235 8070 ) for £227pp , with an optional day tour to Toledo for £26 or to Avila and Segovia for £33 . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for Brazil , even if the economics ministry succeeds in uniting the country 's industry behind quotas , there will be plenty of arguing before any international system can be set up . |
| 10 | Although a plan oblique projection can be set at any angle to the horizontal , the other common form is 60° , 30° . |
| 11 | The pentagonal base of a pyramid formed by five equilateral triangles can be set upon each face of a dodecahedron to form a polyhedron of 60 faces . |
| 12 | Similarity groups tend to be more unified than proximity groups , and they can be set in competition . |
| 13 | There will be a thermostat which can be set so that , if the temperature falls below 20°C , say , the heating is switched on , and if the temperature rises a few degrees higher , it is switched off . |
| 14 | Application clusters can be set up permanently to meet individual needs . |
| 15 | The 1437 timer can be set to cover either 24-hour or 7-day periods , and incorporates a back-lit liquid crystal time display , push-button programming , and battery-powered memory protection . |
| 16 | The key elements of the political approach identified earlier in the chapter , those of incremental budgetary approaches , micropolitical factors and satisficing behaviour of groups , can be set in the following framework to provide factors that can be used as indicators of the existence of political decision-making processes : |
| 17 | The environmental conditions with which the system is in equilibrium may shift , and only so long as the equilibrium can be set at new and workable positions can the species survive . |
| 18 | Committees of enquiry can be set up ad hoc to look into particular matters , but a government can always prevent one being set up if it fears that the results may be embarrassing , since a majority of the Assemblée must vote for their creation . |
| 19 | Targets can be set where parents and teachers jointly agree about ways they can work together to enhance the child 's learning . |
| 20 | The duties which arise in this situation can be set out , as can those arising elsewhere . |
| 21 | There are a number of different ways in which self-administered arrangements can be set up . |
| 22 | Around the new ideas , goals can be set . |
| 23 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 24 | In many cases the most probable answers can be set down in advance and this helps enormously towards analysis . |
| 25 | Networks can be set up to send and receive text by electronic mail and telex ( Task 18 ) or by facsimile transmission ( Task 16 ) . |
| 26 | In particular , it must be noted that no global space-like hypersurface exists on which initial Cauchy data for the problem can be set . |
| 27 | Objectives for learning can be set so that the nurse has guidelines for the session . |
| 28 | Situations and characters to be portrayed can be set out for the learner on a worksheet . |
| 29 | The Pre-Retirement Association ( address on page 155 ) runs day or weekend courses for the employees of large companies ; and as the PRA has a countrywide network of speakers , these can be set up anywhere in the UK in response to demand . |
| 30 | To resolve this instability regular patterns of rising and falling liquid can be set up . |