Example sentences of "[noun] that can [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process demonstrates both response to external pressure and the action that can be taken between companies which are both based in industrialised ( and therefore interdependent ) countries . |
| 2 | I support the Bill , because anything that can add to the action that can be taken against car thieves is welcome . |
| 3 | As many parasites occupy more than one environment during their life-cycles , they must possess suites of characteristics that can be expressed at the proper time . |
| 4 | Other complex aptitudes that can be measured in tests are : |
| 5 | Each box comes bundled with MS-DOS and Microsoft Corp Windows , but options include an on-board 50-pin SCSI 2 host adaptor and cable for extra storage or use of CD-ROM for multimedia applications ; and a network card that can be plugged into a 16-bit network adaptor socket . |
| 6 | Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis . |
| 7 | The discussion so far has focused on the sociolinguistics of dialect-divergence and the methods that can be used in order to establish in-group norms of language use that are not previously part of the knowledge of the investigator . |
| 8 | Compiling a directory of employers willing to employ Downs school leavers provides the framework for clarifying the feasibility and methods that can be used in a further , more substantial research contribution . |
| 9 | If you 've never had a day 's illness in your life , it 's hard to imagine the financial disruption that can be caused by sudden hospitalisation . |
| 10 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
| 11 | This is not an allegation that can be levelled at Frank Tipler , a cosmologist at Tulane University in Indiana . |
| 12 | As with the purchase of a share , the maximum loss that can be suffered by anyone who buys a futures contract is the initial price of the asset ( S t ) , since negative share prices are not possible . |
| 13 | Mercury in metallic form is not particularly dangerous , but many of the organic compounds that can be made from it are extremely toxic . |
| 14 | Fortunately there are a number of useful guidelines that can be applied to both the systems on offer and the facilities you need . |
| 15 | The first is a very high performance aircraft that can be flown like a fighter , using a mix of hand-flying and the automatics . |
| 16 | The TB20 is a handsome modern aircraft that can be aviated without requiring the pilot get dirty , strain his neck or feel he 's driving a museum piece . |
| 17 | Both of these are battery powered with interchangeable heads that can be used for filing and buffing nails . |
| 18 | The intention is that an LEA will not be able to favour particular schools , or to use the granting and withholding of funds as a means of enforcing policies , or of promoting some educational practices and discouraging others ( except to a marginal extent with some limited discretionary funds that can be kept outside the aggregated budget ) . |
| 19 | Check on the number of units that can be manufactured at full capacity : |
| 20 | Measuring changes in urine acid output at breakfast time provides a reliable indirect measure of gastric acid secretion that can be used in field conditions , enabling the relation between gastric acid output and the development of diarrhoeal diseases to be investigated . |
| 21 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 22 | A system relates to its environment of other systems by importing materials , feelings , ideas etc. and transforming these into outputs that can be exported into the environment . |
| 23 | However , the multiplicity of parameters that can be recorded on a DFDR system have substantially eliminated the need to use complicated methods for extracting useful information from flight recorders . |
| 24 | Er the United States er in , in short , the , the principal er actor here er is immune from criticism because if these strikes fail it 's simply er bad luck , erm there 's no cost to the United States that can be translated into the domestic er arena and made dangerous to the incumbent president . |
| 25 | In future , while candidates will be allowed to use advanced calculators , they will be forbidden from storing information in the memories of such machines or from using calculators that can be linked by aerial to computers outside the examination room . |
| 26 | We need only accept the fact that individuals have social contacts with other individuals , because social network is about individuals and the relationships that can be contracted between them , and not primarily based on pre-defined group structures . |
| 27 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
| 28 | The lexical lookup module determines the possible words that can be formed from the characters and the grammar tags for these words . |
| 29 | We have now moved on from looking at syllables to looking at words , and we will consider certain well-known English words that can be pronounced in two different ways , which are called strong forms and weak forms . |
| 30 | There are systems in research laboratories which approach this goal but increasing the number of speakers who can be recognised reduces the number of words that can be accepted at any one time . |