Example sentences of "which can [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The last kind of Professional Development Award is the Certificate , which can be made up of varying numbers of National Certificate Modules , Higher National Units , or Workplace Assessed Units .
2 It has an external control unit , which can be sited up to 30 metres from the detector , and an automatic prism wiping device .
3 It may be reached on foot by using a track leaving the Ullapool road four miles out of Kylesku : this climbs over a high saddle before reaching the stream which can be followed down to the lip of the fall .
4 It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia .
5 On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party .
6 But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial .
7 However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed .
8 Each word has component parts which can be traced back to one of 800 roots .
9 The family , which can be traced back to the thirteenth century , lived at the manor of Cavendish Overhall , Suffolk , until the house and lands were sold in 1596 by William Cavendish , Michael 's eldest brother .
10 As we have observed in earlier chapters , one of the major concerns of government one which can be traced back to the last century — is the control of the level of expenditure by the state .
11 Was the uninterrupted growth and full employment of the '50s and '60s partly due to a belief ( which can be traced back to World War II ) that demand management would prevent mass unemployment if it ever showed signs of recurring ?
12 The computer will point you in the right direction of a fuel pod which can be scooped up at close range .
13 The notice , which can be sent out with the dividend itself , must include the following particulars : ( i ) amounts realised from the sale of assets ; ( ii ) payments made by the trustee in the administration of the estate ; ( iii ) provision for unsettled claims and funds retained for particular purposes ; ( iv ) the total amount to be distributed and the rate of dividend ; and ( v ) whether , and if so when , any further dividend is expected to be declared ( r 11.6(2) ) .
14 As getting in necessitates standing on the red leather trimmed seat , the manufacturers thoughtfully provide a ‘ mud flap ’ of similar material which can be flipped over from in front of the squab .
15 The drawbacks are that it is significantly slower than the mainframe version , and the user is limited to the amount of data which can be fitted on to a PC ( a typical county takes up about 20 MB ) .
16 Various intumescent materials are available which can be sprayed on to the iron , after suitable cleaning and priming , to five a fire-insulating coating .
17 But even if it is n't , it is far better to start with a concise piece of information which can be built up into a bigger story if the circumstances are right than to send out a wordy release which is immediately discarded .
18 The Protec filters which can be built up by modules , feature brushes , foam cartridges and flocor .
19 An auger works in much the same way , but instead of being pushed into the soil , it has a corkscrew end which can be twisted down into the earth .
20 And those pro the , the guidelines would , if accepted , enable schemes two and three to continue , on the basis that the capital receipts from the sale of the are earmarked for this sort of investments , and that these in their turn will generate a flow of capital receipts which can be ploughed back for the benefit of the to the totality of County Council 's capital programme .
21 The inner shell is a self-sufficient unit which can be cut off at once from the outer shell .
22 Rotate crops and use green manures , ie leafy crops which can be dug back into the soil .
23 Seth suggests that our beliefs are like children 's playing blocks , which can be moved around with ease : ‘ … all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play , as opposed to work . ’
24 The switch of tactics on the part of the war-tax resistance movement which can be dated back to 1977 is potentially of great significance because it provided the conditions in which a broad-based political campaign may be mounted , calling for a statutory right of tax diversion and relying on litigation as an auxiliary and subordinate weapon , instead of depending exclusively on litigation to try to bring about a change in the law directly .
25 Churchill 's decision to set up S Branch and his support for the economists within the Cabinet Office stemmed from an enduring distrust of official advice on economic policy which can be dated back to his unhappy time at the Treasury in 1924–29 , particularly his much criticised decision , taken on official advice , to return to the gold standard in 1925 .
26 The main purpose of the costings for the latter years is to identify probable peaks and troughs in the overall programme , which can be smoothed out by phasing in major projects so as to avoid clashes .
27 You can also sow seeds in a greenhouse in March or April , or try lavering , which can be done up to August .
28 It can then be used in spare moments to provide you with recordings of matching background sound , which can be dubbed in at editing if need be to replace any unsatisfactory sections of the original synchronised sound .
29 There are two types of explanation on offer , which can be summed up as ‘ allergic explanations ’ and ‘ deficiency explanations ’ .
30 What do the changes which can be summed up as ‘ modernization plus deindustrialization ’ amount to in terms of consequences for people ?
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