Example sentences of "can be [verb] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many vegetables can be grown to maturity in a growing bag , including aubergines , marrows , radish , kohlrabi and dwarf French beans . |
| 3 | Finally , His25 and His62 can be crosslinked to DNA in chromatin . |
| 4 | It forms the surface on which soils form , over which rivers , oceans and glaciers flow , and through which groundwater permeates ; it is the source of many natural hazards , such as volcanic eruptions , earthquakes , landslips , environmental change , as many changes which are currently under way can be followed to completion in the geological record , and their consequences better understood . |
| 5 | On top of that there 's a data encryption facility so data can be saved to disk in encoded form . |
| 6 | Clearly , vertical arrangements are not matters which can be left to chance in all circumstances . |
| 7 | Party leaders now hope that sufficient union members can be persuaded to affiliate in their own right both to keep the financial wolves from the door and to revitalise a sometimes decaying local structure . |
| 8 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 9 | A significant , though not decisive , part of the low return to aid projects in Africa can be attributed to corruption in the award of contracts . |