Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now recognised by staff that much of the apprehension and anxiety can be traced back to lack of communication and Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) discusses the development of different approaches to rectify the situation , drawing distinctions between information-giving , patient teaching or education , and counselling . |
| 2 | Was the uninterrupted growth and full employment of the '50s and '60s partly due to a belief ( which can be traced back to World War II ) that demand management would prevent mass unemployment if it ever showed signs of recurring ? |
| 3 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 4 | In the following Experiment 2.3 various colours were used to test how far the eye can be relied on to judge backgrounds in the circumstances under which the eventual instrument would be used . |
| 5 | Free-scoring Ally McCoist has a modest international record — only 13 goals from 43 games — and no-one else can be relied on to fire the bullets . |
| 6 | Cheques can be made out to Action Health 2000 and sent to the charity at The Gate House , 25 Gwydir Street , Cambridge CB1 2LG . |
| 7 | Mr Ferris asks us to point out that one of the requirements of the UK Air Navigation Order is that the current registered owner of an aircraft must keep the Authority informed of any changes to their address or ownership details in order that the UK Register of Civil Aircraft can be kept up to date . |
| 8 | ‘ Bulk ’ transfer should be used the first time information of a given type is transferred , thereafter this information can be kept up to date with LIFESPAN by use of ‘ incremental ’ transfers . |
| 9 | Anything that you design within the programme can be saved on to disk for future use . |
| 10 | The implications of this failure are very far-reaching because , it is only if market forces can be counted on to produce good , or even tolerable , results that the abdication from all responsibility for strategic policy-making can for a moment be justified . |
| 11 | With the new set-aside agricultural policies , there is a possibility that cultivated parks can be put back to pasture . |
| 12 | If the stall occurs above about 500 feet , the accident can be put down to lack of awareness and poor stall and spin recovery training . |
| 13 | Also , when you deprive your body of food , it prefers to derive the energy it needs from your muscle tissue as well as your fat stores — therefore any weight loss can be put down to loss of lean muscle , not just flab ! |
| 14 | Taboo is contagious ; it can move from the prohibited act to a person , and by extension the taboo can be displaced on to material objects which become transmitters of taboo . |
| 15 | Alternatively , the targeted assets can be hived down to Target and all the other assets and liabilities of the transferor company can be extracted from it into a company which is to stay in the vendor group . |
| 16 | As with the STANDARD version , shapes that you design in the ORIGINAL section can be superimposed on to stitch patterns created in the COLOUR PATTERN section . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) By using the cumulative Current Law Citator , which is published annually ; this can be brought up to date with the Statute Citator in Current Law Statutes — a table of the effect the statutes have on earlier legislation . |