Example sentences of "[noun] which can [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , both bacteria and animals are already being engineered to produce specific compounds which can be extracted and used for the benefit of farm animals or man . |
| 2 | There are a wide range of finishes which can be used after the preparation process is complete . |
| 3 | An example of a chain can be seen when starting a car which can be plotted as follows : |
| 4 | A ‘ top-down ’ comment by Holdgate ( 1982 ) also makes a plea for relevant local research which can be applied and its resulting policies replicated . |
| 5 | The success of this venture depends heavily upon the quantity and quality of the research which can be assembled and examined . |
| 6 | Rather than pursuing the discussion at an abstract level , it seems sensible to give here a brief synopsis of a selection of French fabliaux which can be regarded as highly typical of the genre , and which represent a range of subtypes within the genre : tales of sensual appetite or greed , adultery and fornication , sexual naivety and sexual fetishism ; a tale of robbers , the macabre joke of the corpse that apparently either can not or will not lie still , and a lavatorial tale of turds . |
| 7 | The reaction of parents to infants , and of friends to the speech of those who are gravely ill , is to attribute meaning to any murmur which can be interpreted as relevant to the context of situation , and , if at all possible , to interpret what appears to be being said as constituting a coherent message , permitting the hearer to construct a coherent interpretation . |
| 8 | For those present their Mass is their one opportunity and they will benefit from any resource and talent which can be gathered and encouraged . |
| 9 | A simplified leaflet to be made available to the public will concentrate on procedures for making a complaint and the follow-up action which can be taken if the initial response is thought to be unsatisfactory . |
| 10 | Her own childhood was evidence enough of the emotional harm which can be wrought when a child is passed from one parental figure to another . |
| 11 | Notes for Guidance were distributed together with the Parliamentary statement , indicating how individual schemes were to be prepared with the object of creating ‘ institutions which can be developed as comprehensive academic communities offering a wide range of disciplines and catering for full-time , sandwich and part-time students at all levels of higher education ’ . |
| 12 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 13 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 14 | In attempting to discern what distinguishes the notions of making and causing , it soon becomes obvious that there are many objects which can be conceived as being made but not as being caused : this is true , for example , of cars , boats , bread , plastic , in short anything that is brought into being by a process of fabrication . |
| 15 | In his critique of rationalism in politics Michael Oakeshott drew a distinction between two forms of human knowledge : ‘ technique ’ , that is , skills which can be taught or acquired from manuals ; and ‘ practical ’ , by which is meant things like judgement or artistry . |
| 16 | Again , coloured plastic shopping bags will offer a wide range of decorative strips which can be tied or glued to a central strip . |
| 17 | Reading and writing are optional activities which can be introduced when appropriate . |
| 18 | It is an ASTONISHING piece of equipment — and I long to know how to use other design and text layout programmes which can be purchased and loaded into it , but want to cast around for sound advice as the programmes cost significant sums each . |
| 19 | a graphics standard for the PC which can be added or built into a system to give sharper characters and improved colour with the correct display device . |
| 20 | The authors define five recruitment strategies which can be summarized as follows : |
| 21 | Only such a theory can generate rules which can be accepted as having the sort of ethical authority that is required for international law to be taken seriously as the ultimate arbiter of international relations . |
| 22 | Do you , do you happen to know , will this service give benefit advice as well , because the , the budget which introduced a , an allowance of a kind for , for child care , is actually quite complicated , and , and it 's kind of er , an amount of income which can be disallowed before Family Credits are calculated and it , it , it involves a new kind of benefits trap as well , and I can see people needing quite a lot of advice about how to get it , and , and when not to get it and so on . |
| 23 | At a vector distance R from the centre of mass which can be expanded if as where are components of . |
| 24 | The gutter is supported at frequent intervals on brackets which can be raised or lowered to determine its ‘ fall ’ , and gutters must run to a good fall and should be cleaned at least annually to free them of leaves and mud ; they must not sag between brackets . |
| 25 | The experiments discussed in the previous section make it clear that most of the experiences which can be recalled if people are woken up through the night are not normally remembered in the morning . |
| 26 | In these circumstances , I hope you will feel able to concur in my view that this is not an issue which can be postponed and that the Government must face up to its responsibilities of trying to find a solution to an urgent social and economic problem , it being , of course , understood that there should be no interference with the war effort . |
| 27 | These , accumulating during this second period created an almost limitless reservoir of units and it is this reservoir which can be regarded as being identified with the state of the Created God at the time of the dawn of civilisation . |
| 28 | Keeping a work diary provided myself and my managers with quantitative data on my time management which can be scrutinised and kept as one tool to evaluate change . |
| 29 | The pixels which make up an image on a digitized computer screen are like building blocks which can be coloured and combined in any way the operator 's computer , competence and ingenuity allow . |
| 30 | What the preliminary or collateral fact doctrine seeks to do is to distinguish those elements within the bracket which can be regarded as conditioning the power of the tribunal to go on and consider the merits from the merits themselves . |