Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This can be applied to polygon overlay operations to ascribe descriptive levels of certainty to the resulting map . |
| 32 | Ted , based at Research in Coventry in the UK , is involved in environmental work , studying emerging methods of pollution control and considering how they can be applied to Group businesses . |
| 33 | We can best conclude our discussion of melodic construction by giving the skeleton form — sentence by sentence — of a number of melodies , showing how the principle of ‘ statement and change ’ ( discussed in chapter 3 ) can be applied to theme building . |
| 34 | Instead , the ‘ purity ’ of pure theory stems from its projected universality , so that theories , if correct , can be applied to friendship formations , emotional attributions or information-processing of all historical eras and contexts without restriction . |
| 35 | From the definition of φ 2 we obtain , hence which is the van Laar expression derived for regular solutions and shows that this approach can be applied to polymer systems . |
| 36 | A similar argument can be applied to urine production except that the emphasis , would be on fluid intake . |
| 37 | Something of the same analysis can be applied to capitalism . |
| 38 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 39 | Direct-injection diesels can be converted to gas operation using the Nebula piston ( right ) , which concentrates existing swirl in an open chamber for low NOx-output combustion . |
| 40 | DFDs can be converted to computer procedures . |
| 41 | They are substitutes in the sense that they are highly liquid : they can be converted to money quickly , cheaply and with high , but varying , degrees of capital certainty . |
| 42 | A DEM is a grid of terrain elevations which can be converted to vector ( contour line ) form . |
| 43 | Taking in too much protein will result in you putting on weight , as it can be converted to fat . |
| 44 | Not only methanol , but also other simple organic substances such as esters , ketones and acids can be converted to hydrocarbon fuels by zeolites . |
| 45 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 46 | The fact that such an ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ is not unrelated to other , much more obviously parricidal ones , and that all of these insurrections against cultural restraint can be traced to childhood failures in the acquisition of the superego is nicely illustrated by an Italian terrorist who , having put his revolutionary ideology into practice by murdering seventeen people and kidnapping an American general , justified his activities at his trial by proudly explaining that ‘ My challenge began from the school benches of Centocelle [ his home town ] . |
| 47 | Therefore , they need the democratic powers and the rights of the European Parliament to be developed to ensure that those who are elected can be called to account . |
| 48 | Finally , His25 and His62 can be crosslinked to DNA in chromatin . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Details of the experiments themselves do not concern us here , but some of the ideas that have emerged from them are of interest because they add further to our understanding of how , looked at from a biological perspective , creativity can be connected to psychosis . |
| 51 | This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists . |
| 52 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 53 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 54 | If an instrument is not available , a known sample volume can be evaporated to dryness and brought to constant weight to give total solids by evaporation . |
| 55 | It will be suggested that , if the concept of social representation is to be clarified , then analysts must search for processes which can be contrasted to objectification . |
| 56 | Other reasons are that Prestel pages can be included in microviewdata bases alongside pages created by pupils ; Prestel pages on a specific subject Can be downloaded to disk and the disk incorporated into an information package , with slides , tapes and printed materials ; and that Prestel may not always be available in the place where the information is needed , thus downloading allows for flexibility in that , for example , pages of graphics can be used for work in the art department . |
| 57 | There may still be some possibilities , however , perhaps by filling as much of the waking day as possible with exhausting and demanding activity to reduce the time which can be given to introspection . |
| 58 | Preferential telephone service can be given to VIP guests . |
| 59 | if they 're not being desirable one by our standards , but a society can be made to work , if there 's enough pressure put on it . |
| 60 | These can be made to measure if required , but some , such as spirals and the straight stairway , can be bought as kits for you to assemble yourself . |