Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Massey agrees that the fate of entities which are part of large spatially diverse enterprises can be related to explicit planning decisions , but considers that it is dangerous to somehow regard such actions as ‘ worse ’ than the consequences of the anonymous system forces of capitalism as manifested through market relations . |
| 2 | Not only is the method not scientific but , to the extent that Marx did make certain historical prophecies which can be related to empirical evidence over long periods of time , these can be examined and by and large they have not proved to be valid . |
| 3 | All of the forms within one database can be related to each other . |
| 4 | The underlying concept is that pairs of sentences that have constituents in common can be related to each other by a linguistic transformation . |
| 5 | The various moduli can be related to each other in a simple manner , because an isotropic body is considered to possess only two independent elastic constants and so |
| 6 | Library education will be more effective if the student understands what he is doing and why he is doing it — that is , if new facts can be related to existing knowledge . |
| 7 | The damage , is fairly obvious to see is produced by these two and it 's worth pointing out that persistence can be related to this catalase enzyme . |
| 8 | If we accept that the narrative discourse represents the consciousness of the unnamed ‘ jealous husband ’ of the woman known as A … , then the ambiguities and contradictions in the text can be related to this narrator 's obsessive fascination with the possibility of his wife 's adultery . |
| 9 | This race is distinctly darker than our British bird and can be seen to good advantage on Sea-lion Island , the most southerly inhabited island in the Falklands . |
| 10 | This slab of syncopated stupidity is receiving the heaviest of heavy MTV rotation and can be seen to fullest advantage bookending slurred appearances by that station 's in-house West Coast wastoid , Pauly Shore . |
| 11 | The Royal Oak of Boscobel can be seen to this day , painted on signs outside countless pubs all over the country . |
| 12 | At New Winchelsea many of the thirty-nine squares or chequers into which the town-site had been divided in the 1280s were never built upon , but remained under grass and can be seen to this day . |
| 13 | The integrand can be expanded to first order in : . |
| 14 | But the absence , say , of sterile dressing packs can be turned to good use . |
| 15 | Children may discover that the covering of sand in the tray can be pushed to one side into a mound , yet will still push back to cover the tray . |
| 16 | The advantage is that the cover can be pushed to one side with a net handle or broomstick , then slid back again , while the pondkeeper remains dry and in full possession of his sanity . |
| 17 | Other chemicals media are available , but generally they can be limited to quick removal of disease treatments . |
| 18 | A number y can be raised to any power , say n . |
| 19 | This process is called inovulation , and can be likened to artificial insemination , in that the egg cell is deliberately removed from the woman 's body , and reinserted after fertilization . |
| 20 | Verbivore combines the fantastic ontological postulates of Amalgamemnon with the basically realistic postulates of Xorandor , creating a hybrid form which can be likened to magic realism as practised by many Spanish-American writers , and more recently by a number of British authors . |
| 21 | Its results can be heard to best effect in the rapt serenity of the slow movement of the Second Quartet ; the composer described it as an ‘ intimate talk between God and man ’ , and it really is music of extraordinary beauty , a half-lit oasis of repose amid the vigour of the rest of the Quartet . |
| 22 | Rouse can be heard to better effect on a live recording from a San Francisco Monk tribute in October 1988 , seven weeks before his death . |
| 23 | Pointers of the same type can be assigned to each other . |
| 24 | At least eight mosaics can be assigned to this group of banded geometric designs and meanders : the Harpham labyrinth mosaic ( pI . |
| 25 | The leases make the publican responsible for the upkeep of the pub and , although they can be assigned to another person after two years , the original holder would be responsible for meeting payments if that person defaulted . |
| 26 | If a machine is effectively cleaned and disinfected service can be extended to three day intervals providing there are no extreme environmental or siting factors . |
| 27 | Faxes can be saved in order to be printed later or can be sent to other system subscribers — again using the keypad on a touch tone phone . |
| 28 | The size of the subscription of the first volume , if not that of the second , can be compared to another effort undertaken by the Blencowe family early in the next century . |
| 29 | Marx 's argument that the proletariat becomes a revolutionary force because : machinery reduces differences thus homogenising the labour force ; the nature of work in a modern factory requires organisation ; and the exploitation of the industrial system leads to poverty and alienation , can be applied to rural society in Latin America . |
| 30 | Theory Z was put forward by W G Ouchi as an ‘ advance ’ on Theory Y. It attempts to draw on the successful management techniques of large Japanese companies , and suggests how the key elements of successful Japanese management methods can be applied to Western management and organisation . |