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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | The experiments , due to Leon Glass , are so simple that they can be repeated by anyone with access to a photo-copying machine . |
| 7 | What follows is abstract and will be developed in subsequent chapters , but the points are so obvious that they can be stated now . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In addition the laser methods are so powerful that they can be applied to excited nuclear states . |
| 10 | Self-contained smoke detectors require routine maintenance such as testing and cleaning , so it is important that they can be reached easily and safely . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Of miraculously complicated organisms so small that they can be seen only by a privileged élite , through microscopes costing several thousand pounds ? |
| 13 | Kuhn 's paradigms are not so precise that they can be replaced by an explicit set of rules , as was mentioned above . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |