Example sentences of "something which [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker . |
| 2 | This will be dealt with in greater detail in Chapter 8 , but it needs to be mentioned briefly here as something which should be agreed at the outset . |
| 3 | These documents together with covering letters enable MAS and the vendor to control the sale process , something which should be used to maximum advantage to help enable an acceptable/full price in line with the agreed objectives to be achieved . |
| 4 | But , as has been shown , although their proportionate contribution increased over the period it is not something which should be interpreted in wholly optimistic terms . |
| 5 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 6 | On the other hand the point , for example , that one priest is , is a very distinct possibility , is something which could be expressed in some way I would have thought . |
| 7 | As we have seen , scientia , or scientific knowledge as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from an observation-based study of the natural world . |
| 8 | You then begin to build up a story line , a structure and something which could be called interesting and could be the start of interesting idea . |
| 9 | What caused its collapse was Craig 's conversion to something which could be presented to loyalists as power-sharing . |
| 10 | The judges responded by saying that the ‘ purpose ’ of the accused was something which could be defined objectively . |
| 11 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 12 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 13 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 14 | In future , it recommended the construction of something which could be transported to several shows . |
| 15 | The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons . |
| 16 | Use quotations , something which could be lifted as such . |
| 17 | Was it something which could be conferred , by means of an act of dubbing , or by the issue of a patent ? |
| 18 | As for Sylvia , there was something which could be working itself out between his only daughter and this Honourable : whether it would work out well or ill or at all , he wanted to be there to see it develop . |
| 19 | This last phrase , used in my diary , is a revealing one : cold was n't something imposed on me by anything as trivial as the outside temperature ; it was something which could be controlled from within and by myself alone . |
| 20 | We should try to see space itself as something which can be made as articulate as verbal language . |
| 21 | In particular , it may foster the inventor 's ill-informed optimism that he has something which can be developed and exploited for commercial gain . |
| 22 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 23 | Postscript is recognisable as something which can be written and read by us humans . |
| 24 | We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained . |
| 25 | They will see the gradual integration of text , graphics and video into a single multimedia approach as something which can be handled within the reskilling tradition which is now being established . |
| 26 | In this important respect , and in common with more formal economic analysis , her study fails to appreciate the need to gain a much fuller understanding of microeconomic behaviour ; something which can be done only through detailed investigation of individual businesses and economic institutions [ Major , 1979 ] . |
| 27 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 28 | You either have it or you do not — talent is certainly not something which can be taught . |
| 29 | Why do human cultures contain something which can be called ‘ religion ’ ? |
| 30 | True relaxation is something which can be learned by anyone — although , like anything worth having , it does take a little practice . |