Example sentences of "can [be] broken [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The door here is locked , with the keys in location 53 , but it can be broken open normally ( T 5 , D 12 ) .
2 Heavy fatty deposits can be broken up by the use of caustic cleaners sometimes specially formulated and described as drain cleaners .
3 Also the larger tablets can be broken up for small fish .
4 The day can be broken up into sections for recording purposes .
5 Usually it is a united group of notes , as in ( a ) below , but sometimes it can be broken up into two or more parts , as in ( b ) : This first musical thought usually comprises an even number of bars , two , four , or even six , but there is nothing to prevent it being otherwise ( note the eleven-beat phrase in the Musorgsky , Example 4 , above ) .
6 Project experiments have shown that any sound can be distracting as long has it has two characteristics : that is varies on content and that the stream of sound can be broken up ( or segmented ) into separate entities .
7 Only wise predators can be broken in .
8 The entire show can be broken roughly into halves , the first of which traces the history of Spanish art from 1900 to 1960 more-or-less chronologically .
9 Ties for minimum can be broken arbitrarily .
10 In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme .
11 It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages .
12 These can be broken down into organisation of money , time and preparation .
13 Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water .
14 The build itself can be broken down into two groups , ‘ Direct Build Costs ’ and ‘ Other Costs . ’
15 That is they can be broken down by bacteria to inert residues .
16 Sources of error in the digitizing process can be broken down into two main streams : source map error and operational error .
17 In other words , they can be broken down by bacteria and so removed from the environment .
18 Fordism is said to be characterized by high levels of mass production and work organized on standardized ( Taylorist ) lines , so that each element can be broken down , systematized and repeated .
19 Since the relevant words are ‘ I know , Pamphilus , that everything I leave you will pass to my sons … ’ , the question can be broken down into two parts : do these words amount to a trust at all ?
20 The following bar graphs or charts show how the information can be broken down and looked at more closely .
21 The activities are based first on the complete episode , and then progress to more detailed work on each of the four sections into which the episode can be broken down
22 Any sentence can be broken down into immediate sub-units which themselves have reasonably independent status as coherent wholes , whose combination produces the original sentence .
23 That a subject is capable of noticing whatever is to be perceived can be broken down into two individually necessary and jointly sufficiently conditions :
24 The overall goal of ‘ increasing social contacts ’ , just like ‘ having more money ’ , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities .
25 However , in all cases the instructions can be broken down into a sequence of primitive operations on the various parts of the processor , such as the accumulators , the adder and the program counter ; notice that some of these parts are not directly accessible to the programmer .
26 For example , the fetching and execution of a " store accumulator " instruction can be broken down into a sequence of more primitive operations as shown in Figure 3.19 .
27 Any process with a clearly defined end and intermediate objectives that can be broken down into easily analysed subskills is ideally suited for computerisation .
28 Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) .
29 Each of these groups of magazines can be broken down into smaller groups depending on the audience at which they are aimed and the degree of specialisation of their contents .
30 All extended proportional series can be broken down into a number of linear series of cells , as in figs. 5.6 and 5.7 , and this is the form in which we shall study them .
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