Example sentences of "which [noun] can be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canning equally looked to ‘ justice and judgment not impulse and feeling since that is not a ground upon which parliament can be called upon to act ’ . |
| 2 | d ) Traditional , achieving and affluent cultures : one way in which cultures can be Categorised for marketing purposes is to differentiate between traditional , achieving and affluent cultures , thus : * Traditional cultures are rooted in the past . |
| 3 | In the same way that there are now few modem savoury recipes that do not have herbs in them , and that more and more people are trying herbal remedies for aches and pains , so the uses to which herbs can be put for cosmetic and domestic purposes are being more widely explored . |
| 4 | The intention is that doctors will know which herbs can be used in the treatment of certain complaints . |
| 5 | Consequently , there is a need for a means by which text can be translated from a paper form into an electronic form . |
| 6 | It will mean constant uncertainty in the new parliament over which policies can be pushed through the House of Commons , and a constant pre-occupation with which minor parties might decide to vote down legislation , and when . |
| 7 | Yet , the extent to which improvements can be made in education , among women particularly , in the modernization of water supply and sanitation systems , and in the adequacy of medical care , among other things , will influence the way in which reproductive patterns relate to child and maternal morbidity and mortality . |
| 8 | The work of Kempe in the United States and of the NSPCC in Britain has shown the extent to which therapy can be provided in such cases for both parent and child . |
| 9 | An attraction of the PC expansion card is the ease with which data can be transferred between the card and memory on the host PC — particularly useful for testing and debugging software . |
| 10 | Much emphasis is placed on the ease with which data can be passed from one program to another , information from the customer data base can be used to update a spreadsheet model for instance . |
| 11 | Kenner 's fantasy is being discussed in terms of the view — with which Kenner can be expected to be very familiar — that the goals of a biographically-minded criticism are in some measure fantastic . |
| 12 | The metaphor of the gem here is like a filter or a screen through which Lucy can be seen in a fresh light , and as such the metaphor has the " power to inform and enlighten " which a literal paraphrase would not have — it would fail " to give the insight that the metaphor did " ( Black 1971 : 186f ) . |
| 13 | ( You might refer to the ways in which industry can be organized over space ; to patterns and forms of uneven development ; to how it changes over time . ) |
| 14 | Using particularly Roy Parker 's early study ( 1966 ) of foster home breakdowns , Peter Marsh examines the way in which practice can be assisted by the ‘ new view ’ taken in this study ( still a classic example of the alliance ‘ between research and practice ’ at its best ) . |
| 15 | It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored . |
| 16 | Clearly , therefore , there is no way in which oxygen can be obtained without any water loss : the best that can be done is to minimize the loss . |
| 17 | At present the faculty offers mixed honours degrees in which law can be combined with any of the following : Politics , Economics , Philosophy , Sociology , History , Accounting , Business Studies , Social Policy , Economic and Social History , Celtic , French , German and Spanish . |
| 18 | But having done so , they go on to argue that experiences , being essentially mental , can not be properly ascribed to non-mental subjects , and immediately expose themselves to a question about the true identity of their bearers and the criteria under which experiences can be ascribed to them . |
| 19 | There is no way in which Darwin can be regarded as a parent of the science of plant ecology . |
| 20 | Our pond is surrounded by crazy paving and slabs and so it 's not possible to put canes around from which cotton can be stretched across the pond . |
| 21 | In this species there is no clear distinction between primary visual cortex and the secondary visual areas that are present in most other species , ranging from rats to monkeys , and there is almost total overlap between the motor cortex , defined in terms of the area of cortex from which movements can be evoked by electrical stimulation , and the somatosensory cortex , defined in terms of the area from which electrical activity can be evoked by stimulation of the body surface ( Kaas 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Elizabeth wrote somewhere : ‘ I think loneliness is a theme running through many of my novels and short stories , the different ways in which individuals can be isolated from others — by poverty , old age , eccentricity , living in a foreign country — even by having committed murder , as in A Wreath of Roses ( there are several kinds of loneliness in that novel ) . ’ |
| 23 | There are various different ways in which logics can be relativized to contexts of utterance in order to achieve this . |
| 24 | Desktop computers can be used as electronic mailboxes into which messages can be posted at a moment 's notice for a correspondent to return to . |
| 25 | Under a black layer of grime was another report of a visit to London of Signor Marconi , ‘ the inventor of the system of telegraphy by which messages can be transmitted over a considerable distance without wires ’ . |
| 26 | One is a complete , computer-readable transcription from which extracts can be listed in a format similar to the original source so as to allow manual analysis . |
| 27 | Fictitious precision though is just one of many ways in which managers can be misled by numbers . |
| 28 | The plaintiff 's solicitor should not overlook the value of gratuitous help given by the plaintiff 's relatives or even friends for which damages can be included in the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 29 | At this point ( III.i. 151 ) the Duke-Friar steps forward with his composed and rational prose outlining a complex plot by which Angelo can be brought to book , and the play recovers its balance . |
| 30 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |