Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] can [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument is sufficiently clear that it can be formulated mathematically , and the equilibrial balance calculated . |
| 2 | New technology has produced phones so light that they can be carried unobtrusively in a shirt pocket . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The expectation is so subtle that it can be transmitted even when the experimenter conveys his instructions by means of a tape recording . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | The experiments , due to Leon Glass , are so simple that they can be repeated by anyone with access to a photo-copying machine . |
| 10 | [ The government ] is convinced that it can be done only by delegating responsibility as closely as possible to where health care is delivered to the patient — predominantly to the GP and the local hospital . |
| 11 | Our current account deficit is now so large that it can be reduced by a mere £2bn or £3bn and still be huge . |
| 12 | What follows is abstract and will be developed in subsequent chapters , but the points are so obvious that they can be stated now . |
| 13 | Establish eye contact with the judge , and make sure that you can be heard . |
| 14 | But can we be so confident that it can be stopped ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I consider the distress of the farmers so great that nothing can be done to save many from absolute ruin . |
| 17 | In addition the laser methods are so powerful that they can be applied to excited nuclear states . |
| 18 | As coach Roddan says : ‘ The race is so short that nothing can be allowed to go wrong — and nothing must ever distract them . ’ |
| 19 | Some officers familiar with the medium range Trigat project are sceptical that it can be modified to defeat the new armour . |
| 20 | Self-contained smoke detectors require routine maintenance such as testing and cleaning , so it is important that they can be reached easily and safely . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Clients will not be allowed access to information about other private citizens which is in their file — either descriptive material or the fact that someone is the source of a report — unless the other person is happy that it can be shared . |
| 23 | Because the fungus is now so widespread , it is unlikely that it can be stopped with fungicides . |
| 24 | If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done . |
| 25 | Of miraculously complicated organisms so small that they can be seen only by a privileged élite , through microscopes costing several thousand pounds ? |
| 26 | The Foucauldian equation between knowledge and power is left so general that it can be appropriated by the most tenuously ‘ feminist ’ of psychologies . |
| 27 | Kuhn 's paradigms are not so precise that they can be replaced by an explicit set of rules , as was mentioned above . |
| 28 | Your sport is so dreary that nobody can be bothered to contest it . |
| 29 | It is so shocking that it can be shown only after 9pm . |
| 30 | I have approached a programmer about providing a drop-down menu/windowing user interface and am very hopeful that it can be achieved . |