Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the advantage that the courses can be tailored specifically to meet company requirements and individual employee 's needs . |
| 2 | Maps can be generated digitally to suit different needs . |
| 3 | A further elaboration of this technique is the use by the respondents of computer-linked handsets that can be simply manipulated to show their response throughout the commercial : they can be asked simply to indicate an overall favourable or unfavourable response or to reflect some more specific description of the film — ‘ exciting ’ , ‘ funny ’ , ‘ tasteful ’ , etc . |
| 4 | The estimates in Figure 8.2 are not based on observed cratering , which happens far too infrequently , but on the exposure of each planet to the small bodies that can be seen today to move among the terrestrial planets . |
| 5 | Nottingham can be seen however to have originally developed from the centre , by looking at the development map of the city . |
| 6 | Occasionally , a student — perhaps in mathematics or logic — can be seen actually to make a contribution to the research literature , but that is so rare as to appear precocious . |
| 7 | Although he claims nothing can be done immediately to prevent the cancellation of non-urgent admissions , he 's convinced the hospital will be one of the beneficiaries of the proposed N H S reforms . |
| 8 | Taxes can be imposed either to raise funds for pollution control or to discourage over-use of nitrates , or both . |
| 9 | Weedy pools may give way to areas of broken rock , with boulders and small stones which can be turned over to reveal a hypolithic fauna of considerable interest . |
| 10 | It can be employed progressively to modulate , by stages , from one shape to another . |
| 11 | A wyvern without a rider can be employed either to launch an early attack on your enemy 's artillery or on a powerful character . |
| 12 | Rubber Girl stores easy in raft or can be blown up to add extra floatation . |
| 13 | Some consist of a simple bowl with a lip , over which the water trickles , while others come in sections of varying lengths and shapes which can be joined together to form complex arrangements . |
| 14 | Furthermore , any number of metal components can be joined together to make complex shapes , leading to an almost limitless variety of products . |
| 15 | Fructose and glucose can be joined together to make sucrose or table sugar , normally prepared from sugar cane or sugar beet . |
| 16 | It is then possible that a sequence both of coordinate transformations ( 12.19 ) and Ehlers transformations ( 12.20 ) in the potential space can be applied alternately to generate a further class of solutions with an infinite number of parameters . |
| 17 | The median voter model can be applied directly to yield predictions about the determinants of public expenditure . |
| 18 | Judgement can never be excluded from the weeding process , but in recent years practitioners and researchers have sought a more reliable weeding criterion which can be applied scientifically to produce consistent results . |
| 19 | flexibility , which implies that the computer simulation model can be altered easily to take account of changes in circumstances or to allow modelling of a different system . |
| 20 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 21 | The pinnae usually face forward but can be swivelled round to concentrate any sound which might signal danger or food . |
| 22 | Their huge pinnae , which can be swivelled round to scan the air , gather the echoes of the sound into the earholes . |
| 23 | These DCs can be activated immediately to allow work to proceed . |
| 24 | These DCs can be activated immediately to allow work to proceed . |
| 25 | Many disciplines can be called up to impart a critical perspective , and questions and strategies can be mounted which have use across a wide variety of courses of study . |
| 26 | It will produce around twelve horse power and can be connected up to drive various pumps and machines as well as the mill stones . |
| 27 | The classic bob can be swept back to ring the changes . |
| 28 | Action can be said loosely to have all sorts of meanings . |
| 29 | It can be split up to show separately the reduction and the oxidation taking place in the overall reaction : These two equations are called half-equations . |
| 30 | If this happens the relatively fast marching High Elf infantry can be moved forward to attack from the front . |