Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | God is no divine monster whose existence can be sounded out by the aerial equivalent of the sophisticated underwater sonar equipment used to test for the presence of Nessie . |
| 2 | Actually all the doubts just mentioned can be cleared up by the use of one word , though it is a word never used in The Lord of the Rings . |
| 3 | IT will be a great relief to Abi King at the Arts Theatre if the props she needs for a new play can be turned up by the public at large . |
| 4 | This clock can be turned on by the START signal , causing the motor to run at a stepping rate equal to the clock frequency , and turned off by the STOP signal , in which case the motor is halted . |
| 5 | However , a B II site at this junction can be ruled out by the very high chemical shift of the associated phosphate . |
| 6 | Heavy fatty deposits can be broken up by the use of caustic cleaners sometimes specially formulated and described as drain cleaners . |
| 7 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 8 | ‘ Even if they have mortgage arrears they can be called up by the Public Carriage Office for questioning . |
| 9 | The pack says social workers should take responsibility for ensuring the forms are completed but they can be filled in by the person the child is living with . |
| 10 | Evaluation data are obviously never value free ; but even subjective data such as student evaluation of courses can be recorded objectively , e.g. self-recorded written responses can be analysed by computer or an independent third party ; or subjectively , e.g. a request for comment from the class can be written up by the course tutor three weeks later . |
| 11 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
| 12 | But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance . |
| 13 | Moreover , Keeble argued ( see section 2.4 ) that the shifts in the 1970s were due precisely to the counter-processes which can be sparked off by the concentration of development in a particular area . |
| 14 | a collection of tags specifying page layout styles , paragraph settings and type specifications which can be set up by the user and saved for use in other documents . |
| 15 | Programmed learning can be carried out by the user of a variety of media — books , automatic projection of slides , or by means of a computer-aided instruction ( CAI ) . |
| 16 | Self-assessment methods are useful , here , in that they can be carried out by the individual without the need of a tutor or teacher . |
| 17 | All calculations can be carried out by the computer , e.g. discounts , VAT , etc . |
| 18 | But now staff are being asked to deposit their used cups in special bins so that they can be picked up by the non profit making Save-a-Cup Recycling Company . |
| 19 | We have n't even got a system , as far as I understand it , that 's compatible , so that it 's possible for me to send my reading lists to , for instance , so they can be picked up by the library . |
| 20 | Even in such circumstances , none the less , much can be found out by the judicious interrogation of the sources and witnesses which are available , as the history of the Suez crisis shows . |
| 21 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |
| 22 | Its constant , playful , inventive forging of a self-contained language can be summed up by the novel 's own phrase , ‘ say mangraphique , may say nay por daguerre ! ’ . |
| 23 | The list is not exhaustive , but what this present section sets out to do is give a very substantial selection illustrating the range of material which can be drawn on by the researcher . |
| 24 | An increase in the real money supply can be brought about by the far more direct route of central bank intervention to increase the nominal stock of money by an amount sufficient to attain full employment . |