Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both services can be tailored to customer requirements , according to the company . |
| 2 | The spatial units can be related to census areas in a number of ways , though none is judged to be very satisfactory . |
| 3 | Such pictures can be transmitted to ground stations anywhere in the world , mainly by means of SDS relay satellites . |
| 4 | Housebuilders would be well-advised to build bathrooms and toilets on ground floors so that rain water from house roofs can be channelled to storage tanks on garage roofs to allow gravity feeds where EC standard water is not needed , so saving water meter charges . |
| 5 | The same principle can be applied to behaviour patterns . |
| 6 | It is used to detect amino end groups in nylons dissolved in m-cresol , by titration with methanolic perchloric acid solution , and can be applied to vinyl polymers if an initiator fragment , perhaps containing halogen , is attached to the end of the chain . |
| 7 | Ted , based at Research in Coventry in the UK , is involved in environmental work , studying emerging methods of pollution control and considering how they can be applied to Group businesses . |
| 8 | Instead , the ‘ purity ’ of pure theory stems from its projected universality , so that theories , if correct , can be applied to friendship formations , emotional attributions or information-processing of all historical eras and contexts without restriction . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | DFDs can be converted to computer procedures . |
| 11 | Not only methanol , but also other simple organic substances such as esters , ketones and acids can be converted to hydrocarbon fuels by zeolites . |
| 12 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | Preferential telephone service can be given to VIP guests . |
| 16 | Prison officers are now salaried and take time off in lieu rather than accumulate high earnings on overtime ; they can purchase their own houses , and they can be promoted to governor grades rather than remaining a secondary uniformed branch . |
| 17 | Typically , online systems consist of a central computer housing large , predominantly textual databases which can be delivered to information users at remote terminals . |
| 18 | Temporary club membership can be offered to hotel guests as part of the total accommodation package . |
| 19 | Staff groupings can be subjected to productivity tests to enable budgeting decisions to be made regarding staff levels in the future . |
| 20 | Firstly , we will introduce an alternative model of decision making — incrementalism — and secondly , we will consider whether it is an approach that can be commended to policy makers . |
| 21 | The interface used is X Windows and NetBuilder can be linked to SQL servers and data visualisation software . |
| 22 | Some certificates can be linked to attainment targets in the National Curriculum . |
| 23 | As with fish , most health problems can be attributed to water conditions , or to stress . |
| 24 | Although some uneven distribution of utilities and services can be attributed to market forces , others result from decisions taken by public agencies , such as health authorities , or by local planning authorities ( see chapters 5 and 8 ) . |
| 25 | The Council of 500 was drawn from the demes in proportion to their population ( see p. 112 ) and it is now known ( for instance ) that in the time of Kleisthenes no more than one-quarter of known Athenians can be attributed to city demes . |
| 26 | 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 . |