Example sentences of "can [be] illustrated by the " in BNC.

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1 Such systems can be illustrated by the case of the Kachins of Burma , examined in a famous study by Leach [ 1954 ] .
2 Tertiary prevention can be illustrated by the work of professionals in the children 's departments in the fifties and sixties , who increasingly intervened in family situations before the point of a child 's admission to care ( Donnison , 1975 ) .
3 The scale can be illustrated by the fact that 30 years ago our young people were maturing at a later stage than now , but in many cases were leaving school at an earlier age and taking up employment — the gap between adolescence and employment was perhaps only 12 months .
4 This contrast between ‘ culture ’ and ‘ nature ’ , as Lévi-Strauss phrases it ( although both are of course cultural conceptions ) , can be illustrated by the Lele people who inhabit the Kasai region of the Congo basin in central Africa .
5 This can be illustrated by the early examples of protection for individuals in the special treaty provisions for minorities ; the inclusion of human rights in Article 1 of the United Nations Charter in the context of the maintenance of international peace and security ; and by the paucity of international mechanisms for the enforcement of those rights and freedoms .
6 The extreme flexibility in social structure can be illustrated by the range of behaviour recorded during one hunt from 1990 .
7 But in the years between Jane Austen 's death and the publication of Boz , the growth of interest in the actual past , promoted partly by the novels of Scott , began to disturb this peaceful co-existence by taking Gothic style more seriously — an alteration in attitude which can be illustrated by the difference between a Gothic novel like Udolpho , where ancient buildings are impressionistic , and an historical novel like Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) , rooted in fact and actual place .
8 This can be illustrated by the following case .
9 The point can be illustrated by the following caricature of Adlerian psychology .
10 These points can be illustrated by the following examples .
11 The basic features of the design process-based system can be illustrated by the following worked examples .
12 This flexibility can be illustrated by the subtle shift in official notions of ‘ community care ’ which has been evident in policy documents of recent years .
13 This can be illustrated by the decision to grade other comparable posts within the structure at a higher level than those proposed for this category of staff .
14 This can be illustrated by the early surveys of Booth and Rowntree .
15 This can be illustrated by the following sentences : ( 4 ) He must like spaghetti a lot .
16 This can be illustrated by the hydration of iron oxide : This reaction is significant in chemical weathering because it aids other chemical processes by introducing water molecules deep into crystal structures .
17 The basic hydrolysis reaction can be illustrated by the of the silicate mineral albite ( a sodium-rich plagioclase feldspar mineral kaolinite :
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