Example sentences of "[adj] [that] they can [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New technology has produced phones so light that they can be carried unobtrusively in a shirt pocket . |
| 2 | It is also possible that they can be produced by the slumping of large masses of sediment in water , though in this case the cause may be confused with the effect . |
| 3 | Some risks are so great that they can not be tolerated under any circumstances , while others are so low that they can be tolerated without further justification ; between these extremes , assessment is needed . |
| 4 | It is hoped that more and more of the applications for renewal of approval will be such that they can be granted without any extensive dialogue on them being necessary , and indeed that many of them can be granted without any visit being made to the College by representatives of the Council or vice versa and without any special conditions being attached to the approval . |
| 5 | Blooms of certain species of coccolithophores are so vast that they can be seen from space and , as a result , will provide information on global climatic changes . |
| 6 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 7 | The experiments , due to Leon Glass , are so simple that they can be repeated by anyone with access to a photo-copying machine . |
| 8 | What follows is abstract and will be developed in subsequent chapters , but the points are so obvious that they can be stated now . |
| 9 | For the collector of Munros , the skyline boundaries of Glen Shiel provide exhilarating expeditions with Munros so profuse that they can be picked off like apples from a tree . |
| 10 | In addition the laser methods are so powerful that they can be applied to excited nuclear states . |
| 11 | Self-contained smoke detectors require routine maintenance such as testing and cleaning , so it is important that they can be reached easily and safely . |
| 12 | They are not so insignificant that they can be ignored ; but nor are they so important that they can be allowed to kill the only prospect for peace that does not involve a fight to a standstill . |
| 13 | Of miraculously complicated organisms so small that they can be seen only by a privileged élite , through microscopes costing several thousand pounds ? |
| 14 | Kuhn 's paradigms are not so precise that they can be replaced by an explicit set of rules , as was mentioned above . |
| 15 | They are not so insignificant that they can be ignored ; but nor are they so important that they can be allowed to kill the only prospect for peace that does not involve a fight to a standstill . |
| 16 | Having tried out these various methods you might consider them too time-consuming to use for large areas but they are so attractive that they can be put to good use as trimmings . |
| 17 | Whether they arise as Turing proposed , or by some other physico-chemical process , it will always be true that they can be altered by changes in genes . |