Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [Wh det] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , I listen for my own information and education to the early recordings of the Busch quartet to get the measure of what can be achieved , and what pianissimo and dolce really mean . |
| 2 | ‘ Above all else the organization is viewed as a functionally integrated system , the operations of which can be understood with reference to the organizational goals which it is concerned to achieve ’ ( Burrell and Morgan 1979 , p. 205 ) . |
| 3 | It has been subtly shifting the goalposts of what can be done in and through art . |
| 4 | Among the supporters of what can be called , for want of a better term , the democrats are three important groups . |
| 5 | All these agencies have local offices in many areas of the country , the addresses of which can be found in the telephone directory or the local public library . |
| 6 | New forms of behaviour are the result of what can be regarded as a ‘ mind climate ’ or group mental energy creating a morphogenetic field . |
| 7 | The story of a children 's Christmas , climaxing in a party , comes towards the lower end of these two extremes , and we are going to take it as the plot on which can be built an interesting home movie . |
| 8 | those which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which can not be limited as required by this Protocol ; and consequently , in each such case , are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction . |
| 9 | Secondly , we were made aware of the effects of what can be described as liberation thinking and liberation theology not only in South America but only , also , in the Pacific regions Asia , Japan and Korea . |
| 10 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 11 | In this way change is seen as a developing social process the repercussions of which can not be completely forecast . |
| 12 | This opens up for debate the question of what can be done , at each level of the system , to fix some problem . |
| 13 | Another pointer to their continued and increasing use is the recent interest in holistic medicine , the philosophy of which can have such far-reaching effects that the entire way of life of modem civilization may be completely altered by the time the twenty-first century is well under way . |
| 14 | This is not a reference to any pet the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger may have had but rather to a ‘ thought experiment ’ he proposed ( a thought experiment is one that can not actually be performed , but the examination of which can reveal scientific truths — or , at least , plausibilities ) . |
| 15 | Those poor children in the Cairngorms had just been recovered from the clutches of what can only be described as moronic supervisors . |
| 16 | By virtue both of the imperatives already identified , and their financial overtones , every decision taken will have budget implications , the onus of which can no longer be passed to the policies of the LEA , safely remote from the staff-room . |
| 17 | The second type ( 2b ) consists of lexical sets , the membership of which can not be reliably predicted on phonological grounds alone , and this type is additional to the types of variable that were studied by Labov ( 1966 ) in New York City ( these were types 1 and 2a ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Red ’ , in the most basic sense , refers to a quality whose true locus is only in the perceptual fields of beings such as ourselves , but which in our most basic conceptualisations of the world we think of as being present more stably in a real world the character of which can clash with the world as immediately presented . |
| 19 | Allocation determines which arcs in the network will be allocated to a particular node or centre ; districting makes it possible to outline rapidly sets of polygons in order to define specific areas of interest ( districts ) and to summarize their characteristics ; routeing provides a minimum path algorithm through the network , the arcs of which can be assigned weights according to road conditions , road capacity and so on . |
| 20 | It is unusual to find a large deposit containing pottery the whole of which can be grouped into a narrow date bracket , and the most obvious examples on occupation sites are caused by the destruction of a building which has pottery in it , in store or in use at the time . |
| 21 | It will not apply to tribunals which have an internal hierarchy , the top of which can impose a uniform meaning , nor will it necessarily apply where there is only one tribunal in an area . |
| 22 | Both legal literature and the documentary evidence attest the use of what can be called trust clauses , as well as the practice of using for a single disposition the wording of both legacy and trust . |
| 23 | On other occasions the product to be launched is considered to be over the limit of what can be given away and one creative idea which has now been taken up by quite a number of manufacturers is to raffle a small number of the items or to organise an amusing competition which journalists attending the launch are invited to enter . |
| 24 | Paper production involves a number of chemicals , the disposal of which can cause environmental problems . |
| 25 | However , we also had an opportunity to study restored sites and we were generally impressed by the quality of what can be seen . |
| 26 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |
| 27 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |
| 28 | Concepts such as these will have to be translated into readily understandable questions , the answers to which can serve as indices of the more abstract and theoretical concepts . |
| 29 | It is one of those rare books the love of which can easily turn into an addiction . |
| 30 | The second is that the statutory services do not have the monopoly of altruism or the monopoly of occupying the high moral ground , and I think that those of you who saw the presentation given yesterday afternoon by Mike O'Reilly on the work that 's being done at Knowesouth , the private home he and his wife run , would have to concede that that was an excellent example of the kind of not only interesting , but the kind of pushing forward the boundaries of what can be done in different kinds of settings for people with dementia . |