Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] [adv prt] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction of newly-developed linings that can be pushed down into crumbling sewers to extend their life is widely touted as bringing the cost of renovating the nation 's sewers down somewhere nearer to what impoverished water authorities can afford . |
| 2 | Usually it is a united group of notes , as in ( a ) below , but sometimes it can be broken up into two or more parts , as in ( b ) : This first musical thought usually comprises an even number of bars , two , four , or even six , but there is nothing to prevent it being otherwise ( note the eleven-beat phrase in the Musorgsky , Example 4 , above ) . |
| 3 | The overall goal of ‘ increasing social contacts ’ , just like ‘ having more money ’ , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities . |
| 4 | Analysis of financial statements can be broken down into four major steps . |
| 5 | It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages . |
| 6 | The formation of the lattice from its elements in their standard states can be broken down into five steps . |
| 7 | Any sentence can be broken down into immediate sub-units which themselves have reasonably independent status as coherent wholes , whose combination produces the original sentence . |
| 8 | The build itself can be broken down into two groups , ‘ Direct Build Costs ’ and ‘ Other Costs . ’ |
| 9 | Sources of error in the digitizing process can be broken down into two main streams : source map error and operational error . |
| 10 | Since the relevant words are ‘ I know , Pamphilus , that everything I leave you will pass to my sons … ’ , the question can be broken down into two parts : do these words amount to a trust at all ? |
| 11 | That a subject is capable of noticing whatever is to be perceived can be broken down into two individually necessary and jointly sufficiently conditions : |
| 12 | The major influences on group effectiveness can be broken down into two main categories : |
| 13 | Subsequent experiments have revealed that the concept of attentional focus can be broken down into two separate factors : one concerns the intrinsic importance of actor and acted-upon ; the other concerns informational aspects of actor and acted-upon . |
| 14 | The market for private motor-cars , for example , can be broken down into several segments , depending on income levels , family commitments , benefits sought and many other preferences . |
| 15 | Most writings seem to agree that leadership vision , or ‘ visioning ’ , as the process has sometimes been called , can be broken down into three distinct stages : ( 1 ) the envisioning of ‘ an image of a desired future organizational state ’ ( Bass , 1987 : 51 ) which ( 2 ) when effectively articulated and communicated to followers ( Bennis and Nanus , 1985 ; Tichy and Devanna , 1986 ; Gluck , 1984 ) serves ( 3 ) to empower those followers so that they can enact the vision ( Sashkin , 1987 ; Srivastva , 1983 ; Conger and Kanungo , 1987 ; Robbins and Duncan , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | It can be broken down into three phases . |
| 17 | What the TNCs spend locally can be broken down into three components , namely wages and salaries , utility and service costs , and material linkages . |
| 18 | Each of these groups of magazines can be broken down into smaller groups depending on the audience at which they are aimed and the degree of specialisation of their contents . |
| 19 | If we rearrange equation ( 24 ) we can see that this enthalpy change can be split up into two parts , : is part of the enthalpy change which is available for doing useful work ( see figure 5.17 ) . |
| 20 | Part of the philosophical interest in this area arose from the questions of whether ( a ) all indexical expressions can be reduced to a single primary one , and thence ( b ) whether this final pragmatic residue can be translated out into some eternal context-free artificial language . |
| 21 | Pull strategy can be divided up into two approaches , the participative and the inspirational . |