Example sentences of "how [adj] can be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't see how that can be held against him . ’ |
| 2 | While one can see that a certain number of strategies might be conceived at corporate level before reference to the individual businesses , in general it is very difficult to see how this can be done at corporate headquarters unless the central authority has a careful analysis of the attractiveness and competitive strengths of the major SBUs . |
| 3 | Your Alexander teacher will show you how this can be done with the minimum amount of effort . |
| 4 | I do not see how this can be done without a trial of both the action and the claim to contribution . |
| 5 | of Leonard Lifts Limited looks at how this can be avoided with regular maintenance and modernisation and the use of the latest technology to help maintain high standards of customer care . |
| 6 | It is not obvious how this can be guaranteed by bureaus competing for business in quasi-market conditions . |
| 7 | Wise considers some basic problems of community ecology : how important competition is ; whether niche partitioning structures communities ; how much can be explained by food webs ; and how to determine the effects of one population on the dynamics of another . |
| 8 | How much can be explained in individualist terms , and how much in holist ones ? |
| 9 | With continued research and conservation planning , there 's no telling how much can be achieved in bringing people and marine animals closer together . |
| 10 | In determining how much can be achieved in 15 minutes , consideration is taken of the time to store/restore and the time to verify , and equal durations of seven and a half minutes are allocated to these phases . |
| 11 | The principal vehicles for this analysis are the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods , because of its major importance in private commercial law ; the Unidroit Conventions on International factoring and International financial Leasing , with which the writer has been involved from the early days of their conception ; and the rules and trade terms promulgated by the International Chamber of Commerce , which demonstrate how much can be achieved by the contractual approach to the harmonization of commercial law and practice , and which will be given particular attention later . |
| 12 | But there is a limit to how much can be done on these lines , because the sections have to be able to hear each other to maintain precise rhythm . |
| 13 | In other words , controls can be exercised indirectly by negotiation over what amounts to a question of how much can be charged against local tax . |
| 14 | Mr Margary 's book on Roman Ways in the Weald was a revelation of how much can be unearthed by a patient and detailed examination of one region . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth , South ( Mr. Martin ) provided us with a model of how much can be put into a brief speech . |
| 16 | Perfect information is usually not practicable but the concept is useful in establishing how much can be paid for whatever additional information is available . |
| 17 | Perfect information is usually not practicable but the concept is useful in establishing how much can be paid for whatever additional information is available . |
| 18 | Knowing these devices for narrowing down contextual possibilities does not imply that one can judge how best to act upon such knowledge , how much can be left to be inferred from context , how much needs to be made grammatically explicit . |
| 19 | Consisting of material remains — objects , buildings and other structures — there are limits as to how much can be deduced from such evidence about the people who used them . |
| 20 | I was excited to see from their fine centre spread advert ( 24 March , p 820 ) that McDonnell Douglas have realised how much can be learnt from Nature about improving everyday mechanisms like fighter aircraft undercarriages . |
| 21 | The work over the last 30 years at Wharram Percy in the East Riding of Yorkshire demonstrates how much can be learnt from consistent detailed research on one site about the development of the English landscape and of a site in its local setting . |
| 22 | There are regulations governing how much can be spent during election campaigns . |
| 23 | The aim of the meeting it to provide a wide awareness of the problems industry faces and to illustrate how these can be dealt with positively . |
| 24 | Just how rough can be judged by the fact that Annabel Salmon , Eurotunnel 's official spokeswoman , yesterday called off her engagements on the grounds that she has lost her voice . |