Example sentences of "[Wh det] can [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal .
2 This is located on a permanent-memory chip , which can neither be added to , or altered , by an operator , nor erased when the machine is switched off .
3 Such heroic ambition reminds one of the ambition which can frequently be seen in sons of mothers who have made their children too dependent on them but who are themselves ambitious and aggressive and unconsciously see their male children as their own frustrated masculinity — in the concrete terms in which the unconscious always thinks , as their penis .
4 The hot steam melts away the sticky oils and greases , releasing the dirt and grime which can either be absorbed by the cotton towel provided or vacuumed up later .
5 There are several obvious flowers , such as forget-me-nots , which can either be used as a spray or individually , and wild flowers are often useful as they tend to be small .
6 The skier carries a new model transceiver , the F1-plus , which can either be used for avalanche rescue , or switched to a lower frequency to receive the signal of the buried ski .
7 ( iii ) The negligible role played by the ewe in the annual cycling of N. battus which can thus be considered as a lamb-to-lamb disease .
8 The adjective must of course be one which can plausibly be ascribed to the entity of the subject if the whole is to be grammatically acceptable .
9 ‘ Parliament in my judgment has assumed and contemplated that the testator will have already made his will before he signs and the words in section 9 ( b ) ‘ give effect to the will ’ in my judgment do more naturally suggest that there is a document already in existence which contains either dispositive provisions or something which can properly be described as a testamentary disposition .
10 The influence of Persian , Anatolian and , to a lesser extent , Turkoman designs is clearly discernible , yet there is also something unique and unmistakable about Caucasian rugs , which can partly be explained by the rather unusual development of weaving in the region .
11 We should note in passing , however , that there are a small number of studies focusing on the expressive order of the workplace which can again be interpreted with the concepts we have outlined earlier .
12 Cold-pressed oils are rich in fat soluble nutrients ( vitamins A , D and E ) which can easily be absorbed by the skin and utilised by the body .
13 You may find you have a room or rooms in your own house which can easily be converted on a temporary basis for an exhibition .
14 Because the audience can take such an active part in still image work it is something which can easily be tackled in the classroom , which might be the best place for introducing it to a class who are unfamiliar with it .
15 And what of the deletion of / ? / in Belfast English , which can easily be argued to be phonetically motivated ?
16 using small spaces between letters and larger spaces between words which can easily be distinguished by the recogniser , the following was often found :
17 As an immediate implication of this we distinguish very sharply between a producer who is the sole source of supply for a particular commodity because he has unique access to a necessary resource and one who is the sole source of supply as a result of his entrepreneurial activities ( which can easily be duplicated by his competitors , if they choose ) .
18 Decide whether the room would benefit by altering the proportions of the window , which can easily be achieved by clever positioning of the curtain track .
19 He also brings out some thrilling orchestral details which can easily be submerged in the sound of a organ going for glory .
20 In this context Marxism furnishes its own distinctive teleology of the oppressed , which can easily be transposed from class to nation or ‘ race ’ .
21 Sometimes this results in a major objection being reduced to one which can easily be dealt with .
22 Indoors , power supplies are generally on hand , and the camcorder can be run either directly off the mains via its adapter or on the battery which can easily be recharged between times .
23 Avitus places Clovis 's baptism in the aftermath of the liberation of a " captive people " ; the only group which can easily be described in these terms are the Gallo-Romans of Aquitaine .
24 P. sibhorpii , a soft blushed mauve shade , is also tough as are the various coloured forms of cowslip which can even be naturalised in grass .
25 The ‘ poppy ’ section makes an attractive border pattern , which can also be repeated as an ‘ all-over ’ Fair Isle design , making a useful addition to your collection of floral designs .
26 For this purpose " proceedings " include the hearing of any action , matter or arbitration ( Ord 16 , r 4(5) ) , the disposal of a default action , any pre-trial review or interlocutory application , proceedings for enforcement which can also be transferred under Ord 25 , r 2 and payments into court under a judgment or order .
27 This Engels does by showing that the Greek and Roman states , the ‘ sacred ’ sources of the European ideal , were based on principles which can also be seen in embryo among much less prestigious peoples , the American Indians .
28 The development of 19C painting in Czechoslovakia follows that elsewhere in Europe , but here it is imbued with the same emergence of a national consciousness which can also be seen in literature and architecture .
29 In a development which can also be seen in Zimbabwe , inflationary pressures have been greater for low-income urban households than for those with high incomes .
30 AdPro supports a wide range of graphics formats , including BMP , TIFF and PCX files which can also be saved on your tag file .
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