Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This can be reached by a well maintained serpentine path down the steep slope . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such forces are seldom the product of the ill-feeling which can be generated by a powerful but badly-led and manned administrative system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This can be represented by a context called Title with a property that its font is two points bigger than its containing font . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The position as to whether an individual can be represented by a person of his choice , including a lawyer , is as follows . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thus its history can be represented by a line in space-time ( the " world-line " ) . |
| 13 | It can be represented by a two-dimensional drawing as in Figure 15.1 . |
| 14 | This can be represented by a quasi-chemical process where the formation of a solvent-polymer contact requires first the breaking of ( 1–1 ) and ( 2–2 ) contacts , and can be expressed as an interchange energy AΔΕ 12 per contact , given by |
| 15 | As stress is now independent of the strain the form of the diagram changes and can be represented by a dashpot which is a loose fitting piston in a cylinder containing a liquid of viscosity η . |
| 16 | The equations can be generalized for both shear and tension and G can be replaced by E. The mechanical analogue for the Maxwell unit can be represented by a combination of a spring and a dashpot arranged in series so that the stress is the same on both elements . |
| 17 | The final changes c and c′ represent viscous flow and can be represented by a dashpot so that the whole model is a four element model — figure 13.5 . |
| 18 | This hierarchical description of an object can be represented by a class structure diagram , as shown below . |
| 19 | As a rough approximation the Earth 's present magnetic field can be represented by a regular dipolar pattern ( similar to that produced when a bar magnet is held beneath iron filings scattered on a sheet of paper ) . |
| 20 | Notice that periodic waves that are even functions of time , that is , symmetric about the time origin , can be represented by a constant and just cosine waves , while waves that are odd functions of time , that is , reversed in sign about the time origin , can be represented by just sine waves . |
| 21 | The structures of crystals can be analysed by a technique variously known as X-ray analysis , X-ray crystallography , X-ray diffraction or X-ray spectrometry . |
| 22 | The degree to which the trend had affected Nonconformist life can be seen by a return to the Metropolitan Tabernacle after Spurgeon 's death . |
| 23 | This does n't require prohibitively much energy : a male 's tiny pinprick can be seen by a female from some distance on a dark night , since her eyes are exposed directly to the light source itself . |
| 24 | The specification of payment terms , currencies and dates has to be dealt with in much the same way , whether looked at from the point of view of the buyer or the seller , as can be seen by a comparison of Precedent 1 , cl 5.4 , and Precedent 2 , cl 5.1 . |
| 25 | The harvesting of hay ( and cereals ) will be considered later ; it will suffice to say here that baling is not essential on a smallholding , and if required can be done by a contractor . |
| 26 | This can be done by a handyman , although if the roof is a flat one and not already insulated , special insulating tiles should be fixed inside , which will usually need to be done by a professional . |
| 27 | What is more , at this stage they were concentrating on what they knew best , namely the heat measurements , and were giving little attention to nuclear effects , though some search for tritium — which can be done by a chemical process — was made on a 1 mm rod that produced heat . |
| 28 | In order to disaggregate clusters of inside cells of ICMs it is necessary to decompact the aggregates first and this can be done by a 20-min incubation in warm Ca2+-depleted M2 + BSA or M2 + BSA containing 0.5 μg/ml CCD . |
| 29 | This can be done by a legal mortgage , under which the shareholder transfers the shares to the lender ( who registers the transfer ) subject to an agreement to re-transfer them when the loan is repaid . |
| 30 | Where work can be done by a less senior collegue it will be charged at a lower rate . |