Example sentences of "can be [verb] [prep] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responsibility for changing this and keeping information up to date can be delegated to a staff nurse or senior student . |
| 2 | A GIS can be represented as a means of producing digital overlays of spatially-referenced information , together with the means of entering , recovering , processing and displaying information present in these overlays ( Figure 7. 1 ) . |
| 3 | Community education can be seen as a means of ensuring the widening of such opportunities through a more effective delivery and coordination of education resources . |
| 4 | From the perspective of service users and carers , the care programme approach , and in particular its assessment of needs at an aggregate level , can be seen as a means towards participation in mental health services ( Hogman , 1992 ) . |
| 5 | Similarly , as Badcock argues , the ego can be seen as a means by which tactics for maximum fitness are constructed by active , conscious , social human beings . |
| 6 | These are sets of merchandise which can be collected through a series of purchases , e.g. picture cards , chinaware , glassware , etc. , forming part of a set . |
| 7 | an Aux(iliary) Input ( also a stereo 3.5 mm socket ) connects a cassette player to the GX-7 , the guitar output is mixed in and can be heard via a pair of Walkman headphones connected to the Out , the guitar appearing at the centre of the stereo image . |
| 8 | The plot is energetic and breathless , and Burchill 's distinctive , journalistic voice can be heard in a series of neat one-liners . |
| 9 | Some further evidence can be gained from a series of very interesting experiments undertaken in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 10 | The data contained in the DIG file can be sent to a graphics screen by the command ‘ VIEW-DIG-FILE ’ . |
| 11 | Spectacular cures for iron deficiency are possible with iron sulphate , but the safest way to use it is as a very weak solution — no more that can be heaped on a 1p coin in a full gallon of water — mist-sprayed on just enough to make the leaves glisten , not drench and drip . |
| 12 | N. Bailey ( e.g. 1973 ) and Bickerton ( e.g. 1973 , 1975 ) have claimed that the continuum of " lects " between " basilect " and " acrolect " can be characterised by a series of rules which convert each lect , starting from basilect , into the next upward lect . |
| 13 | Through these planes the bodies of the fish , fragmented and dislocated , can be traced in a series of subsidiary diagonals . |
| 14 | Social distance can be expressed as a series of questions constituting a rating scale . |
| 15 | Two of BOSS 's own expression pedals can be connected via a pair of sockets , with further sockets for headphones and the ME-10 's external effects loop . |
| 16 | The formation of the seif dune is less well understood , but transition forms , which can be connected into a series , have been observed by Bagnold . |
| 17 | 4 Now many 250g bags of sugar can be filled from a 20kg sack of sugar ? |
| 18 | The polymer chain can be regarded as a series of small segments covalently bonded together and it is the effect of this chain connectivity which leads to deviations from an ideal entropy of mixing . |
| 19 | An exhibition can be viewed as a means of getting noticed and attracting publicity and contracts : as a rare chance of seeing a good deal of your recent work together and thus creating an opportunity for self-evaluation and an assessment of the way your work is developing ; and , by no means least , as a way of selling work . |
| 20 | One theory suggests that personality can be viewed as a series of concentric rings . |
| 21 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 22 | There is no nucleus consisting of two protons alone and so no energy can be liberated by a pair of protons making such an object . |
| 23 | If the target State is a party to any of the relevant conventions , humanitarian intervention can be categorised as a means of enforcing those treaty obligations on behalf of the victims . |
| 24 | There is no way that the research can be repeated as a means of checking its descriptions and conclusions . |
| 25 | Campaign Level lies at the core of the product , and is where the major decisions and tactics are decided — this map has a zoom feature , which means the scale can be varied from a 25Km square , to an enormous 3200Km area ! |
| 26 | Mr Palomar can be read as a series of representations of the world , attempted reproductions and descriptions of the out-there being constantly modified in the light of new experience and new information . |
| 27 | These can be described by a series of complicated integrals , but the integrals have been expressed in terms of just three parameters , A , B and C , called Racah Parameters . |
| 28 | Any suffering experienced can be valued as a means of learning about desire and selflessness . |
| 29 | ‘ It is a ceremony by which the ti bon ange can be trapped in a corps cadavre . ’ |
| 30 | Finally , it is becoming increasingly evident that scientific enquiry is an ongoing narrative through which generations of thinkers have sought to understand the world around them , and also that narrative as a mode of knowledge can be used as a means of accommodating the logical paradoxes of contemporary sciences . |