Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence .
6 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 .
7 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 ) .
8 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 .
9 The use of such standards means that information can be exchanged in a concise and , with any luck , unambiguous format .
10 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 .
11 For example , a prediction can be tied into a later encounter in the Castle , or to an encounter on the way back to the adventurers ' base .
12 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 .
13 Thus in so far as the provisions of the Act of 1987 are ambiguous , guidance can be sought from the Order of 1991 in the same way as guidance can be sought from a later enactment for the construction of an earlier one : Kirkness v. John Hudson & Co . Ltd .
14 Such forces are seldom the product of the ill-feeling which can be generated by a powerful but badly-led and manned administrative system .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 ‘ 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 . ’
18 The fraction can be represented as a signed number by any of the methods discussed in the previous section .
19 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 .
20 That way she can keep her puritanical role as keeper of the rules , and I can be represented as a rude anarchist .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 It can be represented by a two-dimensional drawing as in Figure 15.1 .
24 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 ) .
25 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
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 These resemble the well-known problems of international macroeconomic policy-making , and can be analysed as a strategic game between national policy-makers .
29 The question as to whether a specific hypothesis is confirmed or not confirmed by the data is in principle different from the issue of whether the research findings can be generalized to a wider population .
30 The panel hopes now that this statement of faith can be seen as a useful and fairly accessible indicator to outsiders as to what the faith is all about , and at the same time as a ring of words which at least the majority of us within the church can happily affirm .
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