Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shape can be flipped from left to right , mirror imaged vertically and / or horizontally and rotated through any angle as mentioned earlier . |
| 2 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 3 | In general , technical description is only appropriate if it illustrates a point in your argument , as can be seen from problems in the following excerpt : The sonnet structure is appropriate to the subject . |
| 4 | It was similar in the smaller towns , as can be seen from examples in Sussex and Buckinghamshire . |
| 5 | On the other hand the Kingdom might appear like a blaze of lights from a city located on high ground which can be seen from miles around ( Matt. |
| 6 | The organism can be transmitted from fowl to fowl in the egg of Heterakis and in earthworms containing hatched larvae of the worm . |
| 7 | Further evidence of the disadvantaged position of older women in relation to men can be gained from information on the distribution of income . |
| 8 | In doing so the ‘ enlightenment ’ that can be gained from research in helping us develop good child care policy and practice should be just that which should inform good policy and practice for child abuse . |
| 9 | Pentobarbitone can be prepared from powder at 5 mg/ml in warm normal saline or as a 1/10 dilution of the commercial stock solution ( 60 mg/ml ) . |
| 10 | a company 's growth expectations are higher than can be met from growth in the domestic market . |
| 11 | A catenary can be constructed from table of y = cosh x . |
| 12 | Essays must be submitted by August 1 — the conference runs from August 7 to 12 — and full details and a copy of the rules can be obtained from Basil at Greenmount College , Co Antrim , telephone 08494 , 62114 . |
| 13 | Forms can be obtained from Records at Ipsley Court ( address in Part IV ) . |
| 14 | Theorem VI — AT can be obtained from A by a similar transformation . |
| 15 | A full list of titles can be obtained from Chambers at |
| 16 | More details can be obtained from Jim on Middlesbrough 245432 . |
| 17 | Further information , and the materials referred to , can be obtained from Liberon at the address given below . |
| 18 | Fuel can be obtained from plants in three ways : by fermenting plant materials into alcohol ; by extracting sap from plants ; or digesting waste biomass into methane . |
| 19 | Further information can be obtained from Nikon on |
| 20 | Whatever the magnitude of , because only depends slightly on , without proper knowledge of a better approximation to can be obtained from intersections of the input load line with input characteristics for which . |
| 21 | Prices range from £44.95 to £59.95 and further details can be obtained from Maplin on |
| 22 | Whereas definitional information can be obtained from LDOCE for some 55,000 headwords , the acquisition of a similar number of collocational entries requires the processing of an immense corpus . |
| 23 | Here at the Abbeydale museum the process of making edge tools can be followed from start to finish . |
| 24 | Where there is not sufficient space to fit a rail from side to side , pull-out rails ( such as the extending wardrobe rail , or sliding wardrobe rail from Woodfit ) can be fitted from front to back to provide hanging space . |
| 25 | Today police showed off a new mini camera which can be moved from site to site . |
| 26 | The plate can be moved from side to side and backwards for tight corners . |
| 27 | The perimeter measures a mere 40 km , so considerable portions can be covered from base at Hangaroa . |
| 28 | Banks of muscles are attached to the backbone so that the tail can be beaten from side to side with unflagging strength throughout the fish 's life . |
| 29 | STP can be distinguished from LTP by the use of protein kinase inhibitors , in the presence of which potentiation usually persists for only 30–60min r81–85 . |
| 30 | Occasional hybrids of Tufted Duck and Pochard can be distinguished from Scaups by black tip to bill , darker eye and less contrasting wing-bar . |