Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such forces are seldom the product of the ill-feeling which can be generated by a powerful but badly-led and manned administrative system . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It can be represented by a two-dimensional drawing as in Figure 15.1 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This can be done by a legal mortgage , under which the shareholder transfers the shares to the lender ( who registers the transfer ) subject to an agreement to re-transfer them when the loan is repaid . |
| 9 | What is more , at this stage they were concentrating on what they knew best , namely the heat measurements , and were giving little attention to nuclear effects , though some search for tritium — which can be done by a chemical process — was made on a 1 mm rod that produced heat . |
| 10 | In order to disaggregate clusters of inside cells of ICMs it is necessary to decompact the aggregates first and this can be done by a 20-min incubation in warm Ca2+-depleted M2 + BSA or M2 + BSA containing 0.5 μg/ml CCD . |
| 11 | In order to see what can be achieved by a successful agrarian reform policy and yet how these achievements can subsequently be reversed , it is worth examining Chilean agrarian changes . |
| 12 | We have already seen , in unc that reciprocation of a triangular matrix can be achieved by a simple process of back-substitution . |
| 13 | Because of the fact that permanent reduction of acid secretion can be achieved by a single course of H pylori eradication treatment , there seems little justification to continue to treat duodenal ulcer patients with repeated courses of expensive acid suppressive treatment . |
| 14 | Depression has a variety of causes and can be precipitated by a major loss , a poor self image or by having a genetic predisposition for the condition . |
| 15 | Mental handicap can be caused by a wide range of medical , social and environmental factors , of which some are to an extent preventable . |
| 16 | It can be caused by a high level of oxygen in premature babies , but it can occur without artificial administration of oxygen . |
| 17 | The simplest of these manual controls is the ‘ backlight ’ ( BLC ) button , by which the exposure can be increased by a fixed amount when shots are being taken under ‘ backlit ’ lighting conditions ( see page 25 ) . |
| 18 | For example , questions of relevance only to married women can be prefaced by a general question about marital status followed by an instruction for those who have answered in a particular way to move to the relevant subset . |
| 19 | Once more , however , that can be handled by a proper definition of the axes ; obviously it is future profitability of incremental investment that should go into the assessment of SBU attractiveness . |
| 20 | Obviously the size of the negative that can be overcome by a given positive decreases as κ/; κ C decreases . |
| 21 | The Minister will have to explain to me and everyone else how a scheme with such benefits and based on more than 10,000 members can be matched by a privatised scheme covering only 461 employees . |
| 22 | It is very common to find that the combination of the adverbal adjective and its preceding verb can be matched by a single verb , without any change at all in the overall syntactic pattern or in the meaning : 14 ( a ) you should make the string longer you should lengthen the string ( b ) his sister wanted to set the owl free his sister wanted to release the owl or his sister wanted to free the owl ( c ) Liz had knocked her fiancè unconscious Liz had stunned her fiancè ( The same remark can be made of what are plainly close relatives of this construction , namely separable verbs where the second part is an adverb , or " particle " , as with put up ( = accommodate ) , or pull off ( = achieve . ) |
| 23 | The objective will be a realistic specification that can be met by a wide variety of suppliers , but the final say in the specs will be left with the service suppliers , making it highly likely that Unix System V.4 will be at the core of the specification . |
| 24 | The algorithm examines every shallow state , which can be constructed by a short path from start , before it examines deeper states . |
| 25 | For example , the time taken to name a picture of an object can provide useful information especially when this time can be manipulated by a prior event . |
| 26 | Thicker lines are no guarantee of invulnerability , as they can be weakened by a partial cut and snap at the next pull ; equally , they are more expensive ! |
| 27 | Each of these can be recognized by a common pattern of internal structure , all the individual species within a type being but variations on the same basic pattern . |
| 28 | The aches and pains of pregnancy can be soothed by a relaxing massage . |
| 29 | Some variation in predictions can be obtained by a different location of the indifference map so that , a priori , the strength of effects can not be settled . |
| 30 | Building on recent theoretical and experimental developments in electron holography from surface structures , we show here that three-dimensional images with atomic resolution can be obtained by a direct transform of conventional LEED intensity spectra . |