Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Superspecs produce only 6.5 — an important feature when buyers consider that a large percentage of heat loss can be attributed to air leakage or draughts . |
| 2 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 3 | They are therefore both concerned to establish on a number of different fronts how the precepts of law can be related to reality . |
| 4 | The interface used is X Windows and NetBuilder can be linked to SQL servers and data visualisation software . |
| 5 | This fan-cooled , solid state power amp can be set to work at any of the world 's voltages , and fed into 4Ω offers 150 watts per channel . |
| 6 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 7 | Temporary club membership can be offered to hotel guests as part of the total accommodation package . |
| 8 | Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group . |
| 9 | Any system that measures direct current or potential difference can be adapted to measure the corresponding alternating quantity by inserting a rectifying circuit in front of it . |
| 10 | All enquiries relating to the festival can be addressed to Festival Director . |
| 11 | But Mr Livingstone is unlikely to gain the nomination of 55 Labour MPs necessary before his name can be put to Labour 's electoral college , which will meet on July 18 to choose a new leader . |
| 12 | Preferential telephone service can be given to VIP guests . |
| 13 | The fact that such an ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ is not unrelated to other , much more obviously parricidal ones , and that all of these insurrections against cultural restraint can be traced to childhood failures in the acquisition of the superego is nicely illustrated by an Italian terrorist who , having put his revolutionary ideology into practice by murdering seventeen people and kidnapping an American general , justified his activities at his trial by proudly explaining that ‘ My challenge began from the school benches of Centocelle [ his home town ] . |
| 14 | When all the necessary information has been supplied and any input errors corrected , the request can be sent to LIFESPAN by pressing the RETURN key . |
| 15 | A similar argument can be applied to urine production except that the emphasis , would be on fluid intake . |
| 16 | If an instrument is not available , a known sample volume can be evaporated to dryness and brought to constant weight to give total solids by evaporation . |
| 17 | However , these are much more sophisticated these days and the basic information collected on the shopfloor can be down-loaded to payroll systems and to absence monitoring modules to provide the personnel department with instantaneous information about who is in . |
| 18 | These principles of simplicity , flexibility and ease of use can be extended to analysis and modelling . |
| 19 | I would appreciate if you could publish this so that the proper acknowledgement can be made to Network Craigavon . |
| 20 | Members of the Computing Sub-Group require additional familiarisation with this area of IT , so that informed advice can be provided to Management . |
| 21 | if they 're not being desirable one by our standards , but a society can be made to work , if there 's enough pressure put on it . |
| 22 | Other reasons are that Prestel pages can be included in microviewdata bases alongside pages created by pupils ; Prestel pages on a specific subject Can be downloaded to disk and the disk incorporated into an information package , with slides , tapes and printed materials ; and that Prestel may not always be available in the place where the information is needed , thus downloading allows for flexibility in that , for example , pages of graphics can be used for work in the art department . |
| 23 | God alone can guarantee that the moral desires of humanity are satisfied — for instance , by providing a life after death in which happiness can be proportioned to virtue , as it patently is not in this life . |
| 24 | From the definition of φ 2 we obtain , hence which is the van Laar expression derived for regular solutions and shows that this approach can be applied to polymer systems . |
| 25 | Something of the same analysis can be applied to capitalism . |
| 26 | Yet glass is still used mainly for windows ; with the post-war development of the float process , plate glass can be made to perfection cheaply . |
| 27 | The attendance growth can be linked to congregation size . |
| 28 | Given that the diagram involves both the rate of interest and the level of real income , this information can be translated to part ( b ) to give the positively sloped curve showing a locus of equilibrium points in the money market . |
| 29 | This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists . |
| 30 | Greater latitude can be permitted to disparagement of politicians and self-promoting celebrities : the sting is less likely to pierce when the hide is thick . |