Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Each of these groups of magazines can be broken down into smaller groups depending on the audience at which they are aimed and the degree of specialisation of their contents . |
| 32 | Fibre by definition can not be broken down by our digestive systems , but it can be broken down by normal healthy bacteria in our large bowel . |
| 33 | Courier bags up to 32 kilos in weight can be accepted up to 45 minutes before flight departure to over 60 destinations . |
| 34 | Subject to availability of accommodation , bookings can be accepted up to one working day prior to your intended date or arrival at your hotel . |
| 35 | When you remove the basin brackets from the wall , it is more likely that you will damage the plaster ( there may also be some wood there with an advanced case of wet rot ) ; Allow time in the schedule for repairing the plaster before you go any further — modern d-i-y plasters can be applied up to two inches thick . |
| 36 | The game can be played by over 9 or 18 holes and each player receives a scorecard at the start of the game to record their progress . |
| 37 | The system also ‘ stores ’ details of the last 5,000 lightning strikes , and this data can be played back in accelerated fashion , enabling pilots to track the movement of thunderstorms . |
| 38 | And since one partial theory can be played off against another in the same way that sentences can , we have eventually to hold , with Quine , that ‘ the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science ’ . |
| 39 | Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search . |
| 40 | That is something that can be argued over in specific instances . |
| 41 | Each word has component parts which can be traced back to one of 800 roots . |
| 42 | It has for long been held that our modern idea of time derives from that of early Christianity , which in turn can be traced back to that of ancient Israel and Judaism . |
| 43 | In Dr Clarke 's view , the origins can be traced back to 1924 , when Keynes published an article advocating ‘ a drastic remedy ’ for unemployment . |
| 44 | The development of the FEL can be traced back to 1950 , when Hans Motz injected 3 MeV electrons from the Stanford linear accelerator ( linac ) into a magnetic undulator , producing millimetre and submillimetre radiation . |
| 45 | The history of the mill can be traced back to 1710 but quite possibly there may have been an older mill on the same site . |
| 46 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 47 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 48 | The movement can be traced back to 1844 when it started in Rochdale . |
| 49 | However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed . |
| 50 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 51 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 52 | But of course these tendencies can be traced back to earlier stages in his development ; and the Ode to Duty — ‘ Me this unchartered freedom tires ’ — was written the year before . |
| 53 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 54 | The first panspermic hypothesis can be traced back to 1743 and Benôit de Maillet , who suggested that the germs of life came to Earth from space ; they fell into the oceans and in due course grew into fish and , later , amphibians , reptiles and mammals . |
| 55 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |
| 56 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 57 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 58 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 59 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 60 | In principle , any discipline can be called on in this way , as an intellectual resource which has the power of showing hidden ways of perceiving the object in question . |