Example sentences of "[is] [indef pn] [Wh det] can [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | One of Beto 's constant themes is that classification is something which can be carried out properly only by staff who have both human insight in general and a specific knowledge of the prison system and the background of most of its clients . |
| 5 | True relaxation is something which can be learned by anyone — although , like anything worth having , it does take a little practice . |
| 6 | A liquid asset is one which can be transformed into cash quickly and without loss of value . |
| 7 | The ideal schedule is one which can be used by a team of interviewers and yield the same stimuli to informants with their responses being recorded in the same way . |
| 8 | A multilingual thesaurus is one which can be used to support indexing and searching in several languages . |