Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The retained profit can be unlocked by declaration of a dividend . |
| 2 | On a good day ( for the parents , that is ) children can be absorbed for hours in the imaginative construction of a world which depends on them alone for its realization and reward . |
| 3 | The driving position can be tailored to perfection by purring motors that raise , lower and recline with hair-breadth precision . |
| 4 | A shape can be flipped from left to right , mirror imaged vertically and / or horizontally and rotated through any angle as mentioned earlier . |
| 5 | Information can be gathered by means of a questionnaire which new adherents are either invited to fill in themselves , or which can be completed in an interview by one of the church leaders . |
| 6 | For a given polymer + solvent system at a specified temperature , [ η ] can be related to M through the Mark-Houwink equation |
| 7 | In Sections 3.3 and 17.8 , we saw that the vortex street frequency has ranges of decreased regularity ; although these changes can be related to developments in the flow , there are tentative suggestions that they might also be viewed in the present context . |
| 8 | SPELLCHECK has a dictionary of over 6000 words which can be related to text on file . |
| 9 | More recently , information from the registration of births can be related to estimates of the social class distribution in the population derived from the General Household Survey and the Labour Force Survey . |
| 10 | A study of this kind can be related to texts in other media too , giving a comparison of , for example , different ways of approaching the same topic . |
| 11 | 1 ‘ The way that the subject is taught through the life of the school e.g. health habits , games , school government and self help in building and decorating etc. 2 ‘ The way that the subject taught in school can be related to life in the community , e.g. community health , social service , home vegetable plots etc . |
| 12 | For example , Proposition 13 , which sought to curtail local government expenditure , can be related to antipathy towards property taxation . |
| 13 | These can be related to rates of magma production versus differentiation by crystal fractionation within crustal magma chambers . |
| 14 | The main reservoirs of Wasserfallboden and Mooserboden can be reached by road from the village , while the Limberg dam is reached via the Limbergstollen , a lift in an inclined shaft that is 2 miles long , quite an experience ! |
| 15 | Along Hadrian 's Wall ( which from July to September can be reached by coach from Corbridge ) there are a number of interesting historical sites — the Roman Army Museum ; Vindolanda ( large Roman fort ) ; a Roman hospital and a Roman cavalry fort . |
| 16 | I have done little to remedy that myself , except to fall back on the preferred notion of level , which at least can begin to explicate how things can be reached by effort at some times but not others . |
| 17 | He can be reached in Connecticut at ( 203 ) 329–2839 . |
| 18 | The only note of criticism which can be sounded in relation to the admirable job of careful conversion which created much needed and characterful dwellings within the shell of a disused church at St James Court emerges from the preservation-conscious atmosphere of the present day . |
| 19 | When a bank note can be exchanged for gold on demand at a bank it is said to be convertible or redeemable . |
| 20 | They can be exchanged for tickets at all Leeds theatres , Leeds International Concert Season and Leeds Leisure Services music events . |
| 21 | It numbed the mind of one woman so much recently that she left her baby to suffocate inside her car while hoping to hit the jackpot , a bucketful of balls , which can be exchanged for jars of coffee or pairs of tights . |
| 22 | Under a gold standard it is possible for gold to circulate domestically as the legal tender along with banknotes which can be exchanged on demand for gold . |
| 23 | Given the political will , a primitive nationalism can be generated by governments in a remarkably short space of time , certainly in less than a generation . |
| 24 | In the preceding chapters we saw that there are wide differences between the three major social science theories of power These approaches to the analysis of power in capitalist society operate with distinct methodological and substantive focuses Each of the theories can be differentiated in terms of the phenomena they study in order to locate power ; by their disagreement over where ‘ politics ’ begins and ends in society ; how their respective theories are to be substantiated and invalidated ; and the degree of freedom possessed by individuals in capitalism to shape and change their societies |
| 25 | Can be differentiated by means of its concave anal fin . |
| 26 | Conversely , the competition rules can be invoked by businesses as a ‘ sword ’ to cut away the private barriers to trade . |
| 27 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 28 | But now the question is whether anything can be asked of fiction at all . |
| 29 | Certain key questions can be asked of evidence as guides to reliability . |
| 30 | The results of very detailed calculations can be represented as plots of the variation of energy , E , with Δ . |