Example sentences of "can be [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any bar or disco which exceeds its permitted decibel limit can be shut down on the spot for the night by police . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , few activities can be shut down for set periods , most being operational all the year round . |
| 3 | If the samples are above certain limits , the district underground can be shut down . |
| 4 | The problem of poor image quality can be tracked down to the scanning stage . |
| 5 | Their positions and intensities are not affected , so that they can be tracked down . |
| 6 | Very often an organisational problem can be tracked down to a mismatch between an established structure and new processes formed in response to new events and pressures . |
| 7 | Then the cause of an inconsistency , ( perhaps a repetitive probe a mislabelled autoradiograph ) , can be tracked down . |
| 8 | Powerful amplifiers can be turned down for a small hall , but a weak amplifier has no potential for increased volume before it starts distorting the sound . |
| 9 | The introduction of newly-developed linings that can be pushed down into crumbling sewers to extend their life is widely touted as bringing the cost of renovating the nation 's sewers down somewhere nearer to what impoverished water authorities can afford . |
| 10 | They also get the tusks and the bristles which they sell or barter in India , and a large proportion of the fat , which can be rendered down and used for cooking , or dried and preserved to smear on cuts and bruises . |
| 11 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
| 12 | The sheet can be weighted down with sand or stones at the edges , and it should be left in place for three days , by which time it will be safe to commence subsequent building work . |
| 13 | If there is a significant urethritis , this can be adduced by first sample can be spun down and the solid matter can be stained and microscopically examined . |
| 14 | In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme . |
| 15 | It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages . |
| 16 | These can be broken down into organisation of money , time and preparation . |
| 17 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 18 | The build itself can be broken down into two groups , ‘ Direct Build Costs ’ and ‘ Other Costs . ’ |
| 19 | That is they can be broken down by bacteria to inert residues . |
| 20 | Sources of error in the digitizing process can be broken down into two main streams : source map error and operational error . |
| 21 | In other words , they can be broken down by bacteria and so removed from the environment . |
| 22 | Fordism is said to be characterized by high levels of mass production and work organized on standardized ( Taylorist ) lines , so that each element can be broken down , systematized and repeated . |
| 23 | Since the relevant words are ‘ I know , Pamphilus , that everything I leave you will pass to my sons … ’ , the question can be broken down into two parts : do these words amount to a trust at all ? |
| 24 | The following bar graphs or charts show how the information can be broken down and looked at more closely . |
| 25 | The activities are based first on the complete episode , and then progress to more detailed work on each of the four sections into which the episode can be broken down |
| 26 | Any sentence can be broken down into immediate sub-units which themselves have reasonably independent status as coherent wholes , whose combination produces the original sentence . |
| 27 | That a subject is capable of noticing whatever is to be perceived can be broken down into two individually necessary and jointly sufficiently conditions : |
| 28 | The overall goal of ‘ increasing social contacts ’ , just like ‘ having more money ’ , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities . |
| 29 | However , in all cases the instructions can be broken down into a sequence of primitive operations on the various parts of the processor , such as the accumulators , the adder and the program counter ; notice that some of these parts are not directly accessible to the programmer . |
| 30 | For example , the fetching and execution of a " store accumulator " instruction can be broken down into a sequence of more primitive operations as shown in Figure 3.19 . |