Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driving position can be tailored to perfection by purring motors that raise , lower and recline with hair-breadth precision . |
| 2 | Unless very dense , the shady conditions produced by most garden trees can be turned to advantage by creating a miniature woodland that will suit shade-loving plants and offer a cool oasis in a hot summer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These strong steel tracks can be cut to length by a supplier , pre-bent to fit an awkward bay , and have the additional advantage of being ready corded . |
| 6 | We discussed in Report 11 the way this can be taken to excess by those teachers who couch the majority of their utterances in the form of questions , even when statements or instructions are more appropriate , and how such questioning can then become further debased by being low-level or closed . |
| 7 | Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group . |
| 8 | Even so , Miller maintains that the clues to our abilities lie in our past , and can be brought to light by his System for Identifying Motivated Abilities . |