Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data and data structures that have been identified can be mapped on to conventional computer files or clerical files and not necessarily databases . |
| 2 | It has an external control unit , which can be sited up to 30 metres from the detector , and an automatic prism wiping device . |
| 3 | Allows you to purchase one of three items — Seats ( initial ground capacity of 10,000 can be increased up to 40,000 ) , Security Cameras ( to avoid costly crowd violence ) , or a Coach And Youth Team ( allows players to join your squad from the youth team , also helps with training ) . |
| 4 | Lustre powder is included as an optional ingredient in some of the cake recipes in this book — a non-toxic shiny coloured powder , this can be brushed on to dry icing to give a lovely shimmering effect . |
| 5 | The sound of their horns clashing during the rut can be heard up to 8 km away . |
| 6 | Courier bags up to 32 kilos in weight can be accepted up to 45 minutes before flight departure to over 60 destinations . |
| 7 | Subject to availability of accommodation , bookings can be accepted up to one working day prior to your intended date or arrival at your hotel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Each word has component parts which can be traced back to one of 800 roots . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In Dr Clarke 's view , the origins can be traced back to 1924 , when Keynes published an article advocating ‘ a drastic remedy ’ for unemployment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 16 | The movement can be traced back to 1844 when it started in Rochdale . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The odours are the sole attractant for the bees and this can be detected up to 1 km away across water , though perhaps less in forest . |
| 25 | The switch of tactics on the part of the war-tax resistance movement which can be dated back to 1977 is potentially of great significance because it provided the conditions in which a broad-based political campaign may be mounted , calling for a statutory right of tax diversion and relying on litigation as an auxiliary and subordinate weapon , instead of depending exclusively on litigation to try to bring about a change in the law directly . |
| 26 | Hooded brass or chrome floor lamps make especially good reading lamps since they can be moved around to various chairs or sofas , and set to shine on books , or they can be directed onto a wall or ceiling . |
| 27 | Jobs said at Comdex that NeXTStep was created in answer to the problem of ever-increasing amounts of code necessary for today 's increasingly complex applications — with NeXTStep 's object-oriented development tools , custom applications can be written up to 10 times faster than for MS-DOS or Windows , have greater quality and reliability , 83% fewer lines of code , at a 90% cost saving . |
| 28 | Band filters that can be tuned down to low frequencies are useful in a host of applications including electronic oscillators . |
| 29 | An application for a warrant of further detention can be made up to 42 hours from the commencement of the detention clock , in a situation where the 36 hour period runs out at a time when it is not possible for a magistrate 's court to sit . |
| 30 | The palmier biscuits can be made up to two weeks in advance of the filling them with the whipped cream , as long as they are stored in an airtight tin . |