Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | there is increased liberality in interpretation in several texts , but they can mostly be traced back to the increasing imperial intervention in trust cases from the time of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 2 | A change in Eisenhower 's thinking on the USSR can perhaps be traced back to the visit by Churchill and Eden at the end of June 1954 . |
| 3 | Such task analysis can only be carried out to some cost-effective limit beyond which the skilled operator must be trusted to get things right by applying his broad expertise . |
| 4 | This improvement in standards can only be put down to cellar training . |
| 5 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 6 | The standards and safety measures now required for the care of the elderly and disabled mean that houses used , for example , as Cheshire Homes , can only be brought up to current standards at inordinate expense and involving radical alteration of the historic interiors . |
| 7 | The ultimate origin of our seven-day week and the restrictions for long imposed on Sunday activities can thus be traced back to the Babylonians . |
| 8 | However , it necessary , his argument can easily be traced back to Freud . |
| 9 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 10 | More faces can easily be loaded on to a machine , like stocking a larder with exotic ingredients . |
| 11 | Granted the rich diversity of the phenomena of the biological world , a disagreement over results can generally be put down to differences between animals ( ‘ species or strain differences ’ , for instance ) or to subtle alterations in experimental conditions , and can therefore be fudged or ignored . |
| 12 | Emphasis is put on the fact that learned skills such as shorthand are never forgotten and can soon be brought back to the standard required . |
| 13 | The qualities of the Queen of the Night , as with the other eight archetypes , can be discovered in a variety of personal and cultural contexts ; none of the Nine can ever be pinned down to one final form . |
| 14 | The persistent failures can always be traced back to the original false premise that all existence is controlled by an undefined and unassailable ‘ god ’ . |
| 15 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 16 | Today when the primacy of history above all else — the economic , even class conflict — is asserted within a Marxist discourse , together with an accompanying defence of humanism , it can usually be traced back to a Marxism of a Sartrean existentialist form . |
| 17 | Each side panel can also be gathered in to be used as a doorway . |
| 18 | The conflicts which have developed over land and housing can also be linked up to the very mobility of incomers . |
| 19 | Sections that have been saved to disk from other designs can also be imported on to the current grid , so a completely new pattern could be created simply by combining various sections from other designs . |
| 20 | Their victory can also be put down to the lack of a co-ordinated attack by the Whites . |
| 21 | Modern Fourier transform interferometers , designed to operate mainly in the IR , can also be used up to 16 000 cm -1 or so , covering part of the visible region , and instruments designed to cover the entire visible region should be available soon . |
| 22 | The problem in such cases can often be traced back to the actions of the owner . |
| 23 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 24 | Within T IS , too , the work which was done to bring Caterdata and the Psion together can now be sold on to other Caterdata customers , and a section explaining how Psion works has been added to the Caterdata manual . |
| 25 | On a clear day the Black Mountains of Wales can even be made out to the north-east . |
| 26 | The rings can then be split in to 30 different fractions , separated by partitions at the top of the tube . |
| 27 | The psychologists have plenty to say about this , about how the repressed emotion can then be projected on to a partner , or cause a kind of dual way of life to develop , where a woman may be sweet and lovely on the surface but grasping and rapacious beneath . |
| 28 | The need is for collaboration between users and suppliers of technology working together in the derivation of a specification which can then be handed over to IT suppliers as a requirement . |
| 29 | The piece can then be glued on to the damaged area and made ready to receive the gold leaf . |
| 30 | Porcelain painting is just one possibility , and if you create a suitable pressed flower design it can then be copied on to a piece of china , which makes a change from using fresh flowers as the reference material . |