Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | REACTIVE chlorine compounds are known to cause ozone depletion in the Antarctic stratosphere , but they can be bound into an inactive form through reactions with nitrogen dioxide . |
| 2 | The test will check that front seats are secure and that the back rests of all seats can be secured in an upright position . |
| 3 | As far as hardware is concerned , this is obviously the most complex of the Systems described , but the circuits can be realised with a small number of standard integrated circuit packages and purpose.built stepping motor control packages are now widely available ( Sigma instruments , 1980 ; Klingman , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | The first of these , the preparation of lessons in sequence will obviously deal with the formulation of learning objectives which can be realised in a particular unit of work . |
| 5 | The latter phenomena have been extensively analysed in the limit B 0 , in which the Ikeda mapping becomes one-dimensional and can be realised in a so-called hybrid system in which the feedback is electronic rather than optical . |
| 6 | The advantage of the former is that standardized information can be gathered from a large population , although there is always the problem of those who do not respond and how far the characteristics and opinions of such people match the general population . |
| 7 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
| 8 | That 's proved to be quite difficult because the firm as a whole is trying it out but it for example with M C S it can be related to a particular task , to a particular erm assignment , so it 's assignment related . |
| 9 | It also has to have some mechanism by which the latent TL signal is zeroed that can be related to an archaeological or geological event of interest . |
| 10 | The fallopian tubes can be reached through a small cut in the skin of the abdominal wall , either directly ( this is called laparotomy ) or via a delicate telescope ( this is called laparoscopy ) . |
| 11 | Six EC countries have threatened to refuse to ratify the UNCED Convention on Climate Change [ see ED 59/60 ] unless agreement can be reached on an EC-wide energy tax . |
| 12 | By then hundreds of customer-nominated staff , lucky enough to have won in a quarterly draw , will have been presented with Ovations cheques which can be exchanged for a wide range of goods in a special catalogue . |
| 13 | The use of such standards means that information can be exchanged in a concise and , with any luck , unambiguous format . |
| 14 | The advantage of single records is that they can be stored in CKD format — with separate keys — and the track can be scanned for a particular record without having to read unwanted records into main storage . |
| 15 | If the approach to be found here can be tied to a previous tradition , it will be to the modern speculative grammar of which Jespersen and Sapir were eminent exponents earlier in the century ; this tradition has become unfashionable in the past two or three decades , though distinguished work in this mode has still been produced by various scholars , for instance P. H. Matthews in England and Dwight Bolinger in America ; in particular , if there are any worthwhile results in the present text , they owe much to Bolinger 's example of investigation through careful scrutiny of what really happens grammatically when a given expression is used . |
| 16 | Such forces are seldom the product of the ill-feeling which can be generated by a powerful but badly-led and manned administrative system . |
| 17 | It is an all-purpose complaint , one that can be invoked by a frustrated middle class to express its dashed expectations in the wake of Brazil 's decanonized ‘ Economic Miracle ’ , by the urban working class to express their condition of relative powerlessness , and by an impoverished class of displaced sugar-cane cutters and their families to express their hunger . |
| 18 | Elimination of the points shown by open circles does not compromise the accuracy to which the line can be represented on a digital plotter , yet computer storage and processing times are reduced . |
| 19 | ‘ We consider that where a benefit is received which is covered by the rules for registration , it does not become exempt from registration simply because , when offset against associated costs or inconvenience , it can be represented as a net disbenefit to the recipient . ’ |
| 20 | The fraction can be represented as a signed number by any of the methods discussed in the previous section . |
| 21 | There are self-evidently interests other than those of social concern in the spatial revitalisation of urban economic activity and there is no need to descend into a dogmatic public v. private sector debate on the efficiency of urban renewal to suggest that these interests stand to benefit when state intervention , so discredited in the early Thatcher years as creeping socialism , can be represented as a free market solution to urban crisis . |
| 22 | That way she can keep her puritanical role as keeper of the rules , and I can be represented as a rude anarchist . |
| 23 | Network theory holds that information can be represented in a distributed form , in terms of the pattern of activity in a large number of elements . |
| 24 | One is Einstein 's idea that the effects of gravity can be represented by a space-time that is curved or distorted — ; warped — by the matter and energy in it . |
| 25 | It can be represented by a two-dimensional drawing as in Figure 15.1 . |
| 26 | As a rough approximation the Earth 's present magnetic field can be represented by a regular dipolar pattern ( similar to that produced when a bar magnet is held beneath iron filings scattered on a sheet of paper ) . |
| 27 | This can be represented by a quasi-chemical process where the formation of a solvent-polymer contact requires first the breaking of ( 1–1 ) and ( 2–2 ) contacts , and can be expressed as an interchange energy AΔΕ 12 per contact , given by |
| 28 | Notice that periodic waves that are even functions of time , that is , symmetric about the time origin , can be represented by a constant and just cosine waves , while waves that are odd functions of time , that is , reversed in sign about the time origin , can be represented by just sine waves . |
| 29 | This results in better detection limits in the AI to K region , and a wide range of elements ( AI to U ) can be analysed with a single source . |
| 30 | These resemble the well-known problems of international macroeconomic policy-making , and can be analysed as a strategic game between national policy-makers . |