Example sentences of "what can [adv] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These stories describe a form of religion commonly described as paganism , and represent what can clearly be understood as a type of polytheism . |
| 2 | Innovation players , in their effort to get their idea through the corporate labyrinth , play what can best be likened to a relay race . |
| 3 | You must obviously decide in your own parish what can best be done , whether for your own or from a neighbouring parish . |
| 4 | Incidentally , as pupating involves yet another skin change , when the caterpillars are retreating into their chrysalises , the tank is littered with the bizarre sight of what can best be described as ‘ empty caterpillars ’ . |
| 5 | Obviously , this is a total IFR aircraft if only because it is pressurised , so some hours are devoted to what can best be described as ‘ autoflight programming and monitoring ’ . |
| 6 | Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ . |
| 7 | Roberton has taken what can best be described as an artistic look at this subject and I must compliment him on his approach because it provides a valuable visual record of what can never be again . |
| 8 | The operational station — the engineering workshop and so " on which was previously accommodated within the bus station has been shunted off to a glorified shed on what can best be described as a piece of waste ground " . |
| 9 | Just above T g the movement of the chain segments is still rather slow , imparting what can best be described as leathery properties to the material . |
| 10 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 11 | The particular acts found by the judge are we think rather on the borderline of what can properly be regarded as constituting possession , always apart from the consideration of adverse possession . |
| 12 | He thereby makes what happens , the smell , into what can properly be called a matter of real chance . |
| 13 | The resistance , to my mind , does not amount to what can properly be called an argument . |
| 14 | What can properly be called art is still , in majority , an inherent and inseparable element of some other purpose . |
| 15 | But the assembling of separate tales to form some larger whole is a distinctive feature of medieval literature with a history of its own , apart from the history of what can properly be called compilationes . |
| 16 | In addition , what can easily be dismissed as paradox , inconsistency , or even hypocrisy may none the less represent some form of genuine religious commitment . |
| 17 | One might be doing what can also be done by whispering ‘ Do not believe what I said to George ’ ; the other might have winked to say ‘ We are being watched ’ . |
| 18 | It was in the field of cult and religious objects , of decorative and decorated-utilitarian articles , and of what can eventually be distinguished as , in a modern sense , works of art , that reproductive technology became a major cultural mode . |
| 19 | We must be sensitive to all forms of what can loosely be termed ‘ social control ’ . |
| 20 | Several groups now constitute what can evocatively be called the ‘ transport poor ’ ( Wibberley 1978 ) . |
| 21 | Patients sometimes make demands on a therapist which exceed what can reasonably be expected of a therapeutic relationship and which do not appear likely to help solve their problems . |
| 22 | The duty to a lawful visitor only extends so long as , and so far as the lawful visitor is making what can reasonably be contemplated as an ordinary and reasonable use of the premises by the lawful visitor for the purposes for which he has been invited . |
| 23 | The argument continued into the following year , Samuel Whitbread being deluged with medical journals and copies of letters in support of what can now be recognised as an untenable position i.e. that the stomach in this case had ‘ really taken up in some measure the office of the kidnies ( sic ) ’ . |
| 24 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |
| 25 | It was an impressive demonstration of what can now be done . |
| 26 | This explains hypertension , its treatment , what can now be done to prevent the problems it causes , and what sufferers can do to help themselves . |
| 27 | Which all goes to show what can actually be achieved when an analogue master tape is lovingly transferred to compact disc . |
| 28 | The principles of mental-health promotion must be clear : a commitment to social equity , community participation and ensuring a ‘ technical fit ’ with what can actually be achieved on the ground . |
| 29 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 30 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |