Example sentences of "can be [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | REACTIVE chlorine compounds are known to cause ozone depletion in the Antarctic stratosphere , but they can be bound into an inactive form through reactions with nitrogen dioxide . |
| 2 | The test will check that front seats are secure and that the back rests of all seats can be secured in an upright position . |
| 3 | They can be secured by an adult lap and diagonal seat belt or a child harness . |
| 4 | All that is a bit abstract but it can be earthed by an example . |
| 5 | It also has to have some mechanism by which the latent TL signal is zeroed that can be related to an archaeological or geological event of interest . |
| 6 | Six EC countries have threatened to refuse to ratify the UNCED Convention on Climate Change [ see ED 59/60 ] unless agreement can be reached on an EC-wide energy tax . |
| 7 | Cambridge and Norwich can be reached within an hour 's drive . |
| 8 | St. Emilion is 30 minutes away , and the commercial and cultural centre , Bordeaux itself , can be reached in an hour . |
| 9 | If there are likely to be any problems in complying with these time limits the court can be asked for an extension ( FPCR , r14(2) ( b ) and 14(6) ; FPR , r4.14(2) ( b ) and 4.14(4) ) . |
| 10 | Certainly where the manufacturer prints advice as to shelf life on the product , this can be analysed as an express term incorporating durability . |
| 11 | TSMDesk can be ported to an IBM RS/6000 and will run on any industry standard LAN and WAN system . |
| 12 | Only the control panel can be seen on an integrated machine — the rest is covered by a door which is made to match the kitchen units — whereas fully-integrated machines are completely hidden behind a cupboard door . |
| 13 | On another level , the building can be seen as an ark bearing its precious human cargo through a decidely rough sea of bad urban planning and even worse architecture . |
| 14 | If Uppark is stabilised and retained as a ruin , as it should be , the basic structure can be seen as an education itself . |
| 15 | Throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century , most people were averse to official intervention in social and family affairs and the Victorian age can be seen as an era in which individualism was the leading social ethic . |
| 16 | Gordon Phillips has stressed the way in which this objective , and the General Strike , can be seen as an ‘ expiation of 1921 ’ . |
| 17 | Sir , Mrs Dinwiddie ( Letters , July 19 ) raises the valid point that the premium for organic food can be seen as an environmental subsidy . |
| 18 | Accordingly , ‘ The Month of August ’ can be seen as an early poetic response to the enclosure movement . |
| 19 | In a new collection of his photographs — My Lithuania — from publishers Thames and Hudson ( £24.00 ) , he certainly admits to literary pretensions as a young man and his photographs can be seen as an attempt to capture the lives of fellow Lithuanians in the detail which only words can usually portray . |
| 20 | Hooliganism on the terraces can be seen as an organised resistance to such changes . |
| 21 | The book can be seen as an attempt by Scott to assert himself as leading expert on Gothic Revival secular buildings , perhaps having felt that during the great church-building period of the 1840s and 1850s his work was overshadowed by that of other architects , particularly Pugin and Street . |
| 22 | Later on we shall be suggesting that some CONFLICTS in marriage can be seen as an attempt to put right experiences which have gone wrong in the past . |
| 23 | The search for love and the in-love state can be seen as an attempt to recreate the harmonious whole . |
| 24 | The whole character of faith is that it does not rest on itself , nor on what can be seen as an extension of itself , but on what is quite other than itself , by which its own emptiness is filled . |
| 25 | Before leaving the topic of longitudinal studies , it is worth pointing out that the Census can be seen as an example . |
| 26 | In some ways Perrett 's findings can be seen as an extension of the results on prestriate cortex in that higher order properties of objects are being encoded , using information from representations of lower order properties . |
| 27 | I Nevertheless , although shedding much of the metaphysical or religious foundations of traditional conservative thought , Oakeshott 's work can be seen as an attempt to portray a systematic and authentic account of conservative political thought in the contemporary world . |
| 28 | This homage to the past can be seen as an expression of respect for the artist 's original intent , for his ambition to prolong his existence through a work created according to artistic rules , with chosen techniques and materials . |
| 29 | From the point of view of standardization theory , this backward projection of Wyld 's ‘ Received Standard ’ on to earlier states can be seen as an attempt to historicize the standard ( literary ) language — to create a past for it and determine a canon , in which canonical ( 'genuine' ) forms are established and from which unorthodox ( 'non-genuine' or ‘ corrupt ’ ) forms are rejected . |
| 30 | As for the fieldworker 's position vis-à-vis informants , our concern is to account for this ( this can be seen as an extension of the notion of accountability to the data into the fieldwork phase ) and to use it as part of our method of data classification . |