Example sentences of "which [pers pn] can [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language provides the context in which we can be said to understand each other . |
| 2 | There is , Althusser stresses , no ‘ single ideological base time , to which all these different temporalities can be related , no ordinary ‘ single continuous reference time ’ which they can be seen to dislocate ( 105 ) . |
| 3 | Proprietary life assurance companies are no different in this respect but it is very difficult to ascertain the amounts of profit arising from individual contracts and the exact period of time over which they can be said to have been earned . |
| 4 | Pointes can and do have an enormous part to play in classical ballet because there are so many ways in which they can be used to give character and variety to a role . |
| 5 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 6 | He refuses to be filmed at the piano , but improvised the show 's incidental music which he can be heard playing off-camera . |
| 7 | The contents of the racist pathology and the material circumstances to which it can be made to correspond are thus left untouched . |
| 8 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 9 | Thus the hypothesis provides a meaning to primitive ‘ goodness ’ and also suggests the period during which it can be said to have originated . |
| 10 | ( c ) It must be remembered that conventions have differing degrees of force and ultimately that force may be dependent on the extent to which the convention is perceived as being politically necessary at any given time and the extent to which it can be seen to reflect current political values . |
| 11 | It has been used in previous systems such as HWIM and Klatt 's LAFS system , and so the ways in which it can be modified to deal with certain requirements of the speech processing problem have already been explored . |
| 12 | This period is thus , in effect , the lifetime of the product , during which it can be expected to function normally without the need for repair ( other than , of course , in appropriate cases , replacement of consumables — such as ribbons on a printer , and routine or preventive maintenance — such as the need to service a car in accordance with the maker 's guidelines ) . |
| 13 | This is the only way in which it can be forced to feed on its own surplus fat . |