Example sentences of "can be [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But no civilised state can be bound by the whims of the people . |
2 | There is a growing interest in other ‘ guest ’ molecules that can be absorbed by the ‘ host ’ zeolite . |
3 | Moreover , mercury in the banned products can be absorbed by the skin and lead to hypertension , stroke and heart failure . |
4 | They can be secured by an adult lap and diagonal seat belt or a child harness . |
5 | All other decisions can be delegated by the full governing body to a sub-committee , an individual governor , or to the headteacher . |
6 | All that is a bit abstract but it can be earthed by an example . |
7 | Correct descriptions are important to auctioneers , as can be exemplified by the coding used to list paintings . |
8 | And its operation can be exemplified by the kind of nonsensical expressions that Firth complains about . |
9 | The year-on-year variation in the number of accidents can be exemplified by the daily variation in accident totals . |
10 | The Department attempts to provide a positive and co-operative learning environment in which these aims can be realised by the individual pupil . |
11 | Similarly , the expressions for V in the two regions can be related by the same replacement . |
12 | He met his own fate when the wizard Thomas of Ercildoune instructed Soulis 's enemies how to capture him and boil him to death in a cauldron on the Nine Stane Rig , a Bronze Age stone circle which can be reached by a scramble up the hillside above the modern B6399 between Newcastleton and Hawick . |
13 | This can be reached by a well maintained serpentine path down the steep slope . |
14 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
15 | The Foucauldian equation between knowledge and power is left so general that it can be appropriated by the most tenuously ‘ feminist ’ of psychologies . |
16 | Section 61 provides remedies which can be sought by the Secretary of State or , by delegation , the S.I.B . |
17 | He has concentrated on the limitations on the compensatory orders that can be sought by the S.I.B . |
18 | Since a staggering degree of behavioural complexity can be generated by a set of individually simple subroutines , mere complexity of behaviour can not be in itself a trustworthy guide to intelligence . |
19 | Such forces are seldom the product of the ill-feeling which can be generated by a powerful but badly-led and manned administrative system . |
20 | The first problem could be dealt with by the development of a context-free covering grammar — a set of all of the surface trees that can be generated by the transformational grammar for all of the words in the input sentence . |
21 | Step one : Sexing Sexes can be differentiated by the female having two spots above the anal fin , while the male has only one . |
22 | The right of establishment can be invoked by a company registered in a member state against the national authorities of that state if they seek to prevent it setting up agencies , branches or subsidiaries , or participating in the incorporation of a company in another member state . |
23 | It is an all-purpose complaint , one that can be invoked by a frustrated middle class to express its dashed expectations in the wake of Brazil 's decanonized ‘ Economic Miracle ’ , by the urban working class to express their condition of relative powerlessness , and by an impoverished class of displaced sugar-cane cutters and their families to express their hunger . |
24 | A hierarchical court structure is essential to give to a particular case a level of authority ; this will determine whether or not the case can be overruled by a decision of the same or a higher court , and which courts , if any , are bound by its decision . |
25 | Questions can be asked by The Speaker ( see below ) or the player who has just thrown ( or would have just thrown ) |
26 | This can be represented by a context called Title with a property that its font is two points bigger than its containing font . |
27 | One is Einstein 's idea that the effects of gravity can be represented by a space-time that is curved or distorted — ; warped — by the matter and energy in it . |
28 | The position as to whether an individual can be represented by a person of his choice , including a lawyer , is as follows . |
29 | The relationship , at a low level of overall infant mortality , can be represented by a " J " shaped curve which , in 1982 , descended from the young paternal ages and reached its nadir at ages 25–29 . |
30 | Thus its history can be represented by a line in space-time ( the " world-line " ) . |