Example sentences of "[noun sg] which can be [vb pp] by " in BNC.

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1 They will identify and ‘ think through ’ the issues — or rather do the market analysis that substitutes for political thought — and create the slogans and policies in terms of the conditioned reflexes of the electorate which can be controlled by political advertising on the issues .
2 So every er each elementary business function is stored in a central repository which can be accessed by each application on the desktop .
3 A tall — up to 3ft — attractive plant , soapwort Saponaria officinalis was once cultivated for the soapy extract which can be obtained by crushing and boiling its leaves .
4 The Ricci tensor has a non-zero divergence which can be removed by a simple subtraction .
5 With this condition of high inertia the pull-out torque is equal to the maximum average torque which can be produced by the motor .
6 Another observation was of the isolation which can be experienced by the housewife , despite a close and happy marriage , when a move of residence deprives her of the company of friends .
7 However , this argument assumes that the rules of judicial review which can be waived by appealing to the discretion are themselves clear and certain ; but , as we will see , this is very far from the case .
8 The notion of transparent reporting which can be understood by the untutored layman is a chimera .
9 While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating .
10 It 's called FAXgrabber and it takes the fax and converts it into text which can be edited by any word-processor without the need for re-typing .
11 So you might be surprised to discover that most INI files contain text which can be read by humans .
12 The Steering Group believes that the development of Departmental Road Safety Plans would enhance the contribution to casualty reduction which can be made by Regional Council and Police personnel .
13 ‘ publicly expose ’ Publicly means an exposure which can be seen by more than one person .
14 ’ That section sets out some of the principles to be applied , and , for example , points out an alternative course which can be followed by judges where the extent of wasted costs is not clear : see section 6.7 , p. 20 of the guide .
15 Where identification is a morally valuable attitude which can be expressed by binding oneself to the authority , one has a reason to do so which is served by consent to the authority .
16 But in the years between Jane Austen 's death and the publication of Boz , the growth of interest in the actual past , promoted partly by the novels of Scott , began to disturb this peaceful co-existence by taking Gothic style more seriously — an alteration in attitude which can be illustrated by the difference between a Gothic novel like Udolpho , where ancient buildings are impressionistic , and an historical novel like Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) , rooted in fact and actual place .
17 Lucy has also worked on production of a promotional video illustrating aspects of Medau which can be enjoyed by all age groups .
18 The interaction between arousal and retention interval has been interpreted as evidence for Walker 's action decrement theory ( Walker , 1958 ; Walker & Tarte , 1963 ) which assumes that memory traces require a period of consolidation which can be enhanced by arousal , but which initially inhibits access to the trace .
19 Any file which can be read by the computer , from any source and in any data format , can be processed using the BGET# , BPUT# and PTR# functions .
20 It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work .
21 He met his own fate when the wizard Thomas of Ercildoune instructed Soulis 's enemies how to capture him and boil him to death in a cauldron on the Nine Stane Rig , a Bronze Age stone circle which can be reached by a scramble up the hillside above the modern B6399 between Newcastleton and Hawick .
22 The box bellows is a simple device which can be constructed by anyone with rudimentary carpentry skills .
23 Road construction can also lead to soil erosion which can be exacerbated by the dragging or skidding of logs from the place of cutting to areas where they are loaded on to vehicles for transport .
24 Such forces are seldom the product of the ill-feeling which can be generated by a powerful but badly-led and manned administrative system .
25 The 3rd Marquess of Bute together with his renowned architect William Burges transformed the castle into the marvellous place which can be seen by visitors today .
26 Major objectives of the study are to identify those aspects of urban deprivation which can be improved by changes in the availability of transport facilities ( both public and private ) and propose changes in local and national government policies which can help in a reduction in urban deprivation through action in the transport sector .
27 It suggests that matters of health should not be left entirely in the hands of the medical professionals , particularly if they share and perpetuate the dominant belief that good health is purely a ‘ mechanical ’ process which can be remedied by drugs and surgery .
28 The home ought to be a safe haven , the place where people go to get away from fear and violence , and it is this fundamental feeling of safety which can be destroyed by child sexual abuse .
29 This law holds for the ‘ welding ’ of polymers at an interface which can be explained by reptation .
30 In operation it is similar to the normal type of tap : the water flows up through an orifice which can be closed by a jumper with a washer screwed down on to it .
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