Example sentences of "[conj] which can [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This conflict , it would seem , has come about because , broadly speaking , the human race has divided in its response to the vital choice that has been introduced in the foregoing paragraphs , and which can best be summarised as being between the following two major propositions . |
| 2 | There are several plastic tracks available , varying in strength , which are suitable for straight runs and which can also be bent successfully round bays . |
| 3 | It is maintained here that the constitution is nothing more nor less than the outgrowth of the ‘ realities ’ and not , as Lord Sankey and many others of us tend to assume , something distinct from them and which can therefore be contrasted to them . |
| 4 | Surrounded as we are by solutions of all kinds , each one supported by persuasive evidence of attested success , we can not but be tempted into the belief that somewhere among them there will be one which matches our particular teaching problem and which can therefore be slotted into our situation like a cassette or a computer programme . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the two clerks are first introduced to us as " " testif " " , " testy " , " headstrong " , a French-derived adjective with horsy connotations of its own and which can indeed be used of horses in French . |
| 6 | There are more than 350 lots , which were on view at Sotheby 's in New Bond Street , London , earlier this month and which can still be seen today and tomorrow at the Assembly Rooms before the sale begins . |
| 7 | We must find a simple picture-drawing rule that the computer can easily obey , and which can then be made to vary under the influence of " genes ' . |
| 8 | Jonathan Culler 's brand of structuralism recasts the codes and conventions of structuralist poetics as a form of ‘ literary competence ’ that the reader has mastered or internalised before he or she approaches the text , and which can then be adduced as an explanation for the particular interpretation that s/he then gives of it . |
| 9 | They included ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ and ‘ Mallard ’ , which in 193 8 set up the world speed record for a steam locomotive of 126 m.p.h. , and which can now be seen at York ( q.v . ) . |
| 10 | Exactly fifty years earlier , two scientists in the Physics Department demonstrated a device which changed the course of history , and which can now be found in 48% of British homes . |
| 11 | ‘ But whether , in the ordinary case to which section 5 of the Theft Act 1968 does not apply , goods are to be regarded as belonging to another is a question to which the criminal law offers no answer and which can only be answered by reference to civil law principles . |
| 12 | ‘ The fusion of resin and glass fibre in the moulding process yields an end-product which is chemically resistant , but which can also be varied in terms of strength , ’ said Silotank 's managing director Robert Brennan . |
| 13 | Now that 's the kind of information that is absolutely vital for them to understand , in fact for us — I mean I myself am from the Third World — to understand what the problems are , but which can only be achieved with centres in the developed countries that are prepared to make this into a working programme erm for the benefit of both , because in very many cases improving erm the lot of the Third World on the question of revenue from commodities will also improve their position , or the British or the American , or the European consumer , by eliminating intermediaries and so on and so forth . |
| 14 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 15 | Most iniquitous of all are the notorious ‘ closed ’ shops where everything is sold cheaply but which can only be used by the privileged state bureaucrats . |
| 16 | At the time of writing the only categories are see , go , stop and syntax ( syntax words are words like " in " , " of " and " and " , which would not be indexed or searched for in a subject search system , but which can possibly be used to modify the weighting of other words in a search request ) . |