Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | For a given polymer + solvent system at a specified temperature , [ η ] can be related to M through the Mark-Houwink equation |
| 3 | SPELLCHECK has a dictionary of over 6000 words which can be related to text on file . |
| 4 | 1 ‘ The way that the subject is taught through the life of the school e.g. health habits , games , school government and self help in building and decorating etc. 2 ‘ The way that the subject taught in school can be related to life in the community , e.g. community health , social service , home vegetable plots etc . |
| 5 | For example , Proposition 13 , which sought to curtail local government expenditure , can be related to antipathy towards property taxation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many vegetables can be grown to maturity in a growing bag , including aubergines , marrows , radish , kohlrabi and dwarf French beans . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Finally , His25 and His62 can be crosslinked to DNA in chromatin . |
| 11 | It forms the surface on which soils form , over which rivers , oceans and glaciers flow , and through which groundwater permeates ; it is the source of many natural hazards , such as volcanic eruptions , earthquakes , landslips , environmental change , as many changes which are currently under way can be followed to completion in the geological record , and their consequences better understood . |
| 12 | This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists . |
| 13 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The leaderboard keeps track of the games played and scores which can be saved to disk at the end of each game . |
| 16 | On top of that there 's a data encryption facility so data can be saved to disk in encoded form . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This fan-cooled , solid state power amp can be set to work at any of the world 's voltages , and fed into 4Ω offers 150 watts per channel . |
| 19 | Greater latitude can be permitted to disparagement of politicians and self-promoting celebrities : the sting is less likely to pierce when the hide is thick . |
| 20 | The separation of husband and wife after childbirth is also beneficial , because the time immediately after giving birth is not usually when a woman feels like having sex , and time can be devoted to bonding with the baby . |
| 21 | Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group . |
| 22 | Clearly , vertical arrangements are not matters which can be left to chance in all circumstances . |
| 23 | Party leaders now hope that sufficient union members can be persuaded to affiliate in their own right both to keep the financial wolves from the door and to revitalise a sometimes decaying local structure . |
| 24 | Return pair No.4 can be switched to mono via a push-button alongside its return trim pot . |
| 25 | The London company , which the British Technology Group owns , says the Linear Array Processor can be added to Viking for a further £5000 or so . |
| 26 | Here the amount of uplift computed from the reflectance values may include a considerable fraction which can be attributed to removal of Carboniferous overburden in Hercynian times . |
| 27 | A good deal of this position can be attributed to discrimination on the part of employers . |
| 28 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 29 | A significant , though not decisive , part of the low return to aid projects in Africa can be attributed to corruption in the award of contracts . |
| 30 | 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 . |