Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister will know that , contrary to the Government 's views about linking business with the environment — we all agree that coal can successfully be converted to coke — for some reason the Coalite works in Bolsover seems to be polluting the whole environment . |
| 2 | In contrast to neighbouring Cuxton , where a most important Palaeolithic site was discovered in 1962 , the prehistory of Hailing as known at present can only be shown to date from Neolithic , or New Stone Age , times . |
| 3 | then he or she can only be forced to hand back the item if the price it cost him or her is paid in compensation [ Art . |
| 4 | It can be said that works of this kind — and there are many other possible examples begin more evidently from the actual art and culture in question , and can thus be assigned to history or criticism . |
| 5 | The danger is that the question of methodology can easily be turned to dogma according to any premises . |
| 6 | This explains why women place a high priority on the right words , soft music , anything that can generally be attributed to romance . |
| 7 | If there is an element of design on Pechorin 's part in the duel he fights , an element which incorporates a knowledge of the loaded dice to be employed by his opponent in the form of an unloaded pistol , the outcome can still be ascribed to chance , in a sense that must be meant to characterise the hero 's fine indifference . |
| 8 | The indexes , in Latin and English , are followed by seven practical lists , similar to those in the catalogues of many leading nurserymen today and they can still be consulted to advantage . |
| 9 | It has less memory than the MP version , but can still be upgraded to MP capability . |
| 10 | Starving Somalis , and now it seems , starving Bosnians , and many others have reason to be grateful that the generous conscience of America can still be roused to action , often at major risk to American lives . |
| 11 | Some words are already almost music : Shakespeare 's words are already so musical that they can hardly be set to music . |
| 12 | To take but one example of overlap , the kinds of question that are routinely asked in media education can fruitfully be applied to literature : who is communicating with whom and why ; how the text has been produced and transmitted ; how it conveys its meaning . |
| 13 | The method can also be extended to aggradation deposits of interglacial age . |
| 14 | Dolbec and Le Flem 's ( 1980 : 310ff ) argument from the use of a predicate adjunct with the French infinitive can also be applied to English . |
| 15 | Reptation theory can also be applied to polymer dissolution processes . |
| 16 | In an integrated software system the spreadsheets capabilities can also be applied to information stored in a data base , indeed some packages , Lotus 123 for example , treat data bases exactly like a spreadsheet . |
| 17 | Turning to XTC 's third unit , XIT , ‘ Most of what applies to technology generally can also be applied to information technology , ’ says Jenkins . |
| 18 | The panels can also be attached to timber frames or ductwork to create new walls or partitions , allowing existing facilities to be refurbished , and new facilities to be created quickly , without the need for bricks and mortar and the inherent hygiene complications which arise from refurbishment . |
| 19 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 20 | I believe that every problem can be resolved , and that if it can be approached sensibly and thoughtfully , it can even be turned to advantage . |
| 21 | In cell culture conditions , however , in which exogenous EGF can readly be shown to down regulate its receptor and start hepatocyte DNA synthesis , TAGH showed no ability to down regulate the receptor , nor did it competitively inhibit EGF binding . |
| 22 | Some ideas can readily be recalled to consciousness , and these Freud thinks of as in the preconscious . |
| 23 | The prevailing notion among them is one of a versatile , professional competence , constantly kept in trim by a cappella performance , that can readily be turned to music more ambitious and enjoyable when liturgical duties are over . |
| 24 | The techniques used by business can therefore be adapted to government . |
| 25 | And anyone who doubts whether the method can safely be transferred to literature should consult one of Amis 's best novels , Ending up . |
| 26 | It follows that reform can never be guaranteed to work ( as of course research well and truly confirms ) . |