Example sentences of "[verb] which can [adv] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women of darkness ; Lady Macbeth , Mozart 's Queen of the Night , even Cathy , in Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights , with her fierce loves and hates which can not be bound by the rules of day . |
| 2 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 3 | But particularly in a public sector context , where appeals to the public interest could be assumed to be more common , profound questions remain which can not be resolved by terse definitions . |
| 4 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 5 | We both have very firm views on relay racing which can never be reconciled . |
| 6 | Leaders influence those aspects of their subordinates ' interests , energies and drive which can not be harnessed by simple organisation structure , job definitions , or more formal management techniques . |
| 7 | By virtue of s41 of CPA 1987 , breach of a safety regulation , as distinct from the general safety requirement , is also grounds for a civil action by any person affected which can not be excluded or limited by any contract term or notice . |
| 8 | Once the text has been accurately input to the computer , there are no particular practical problems associated with running a concordance program to study a wide range of syntactic variables ; the major advantage of computer techniques is the ease with which repetitive processes can be carried out and large amounts of data stored which can later be added to . |
| 9 | This three-sided relief , and a second , the ‘ Boston Throne ’ , of the same form and character but different and inferior style , present unsolved problems of use , interpretation and indeed date which can not be discussed here . |
| 10 | But the officer must maintain a certain flexibility and be able to deviate from usual practice where necessary , especially to avoid the risk that an administrative convention may be established which can subsequently be used by others with conflicting interests as a resource in their own negotiations . |