Example sentences of "[noun pl] on what can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen , there are distinct limitations on what can be achieved by way of conditions on a planning permission ; this can often be as awkward for the developer as it is for the planning authority . |
| 2 | There is an increasing awareness that there are limitations on what can be assessed by formal written tests or examinations . |
| 3 | However , the fluidity of our use of language places limitations on what can be done with these searching tools . |
| 4 | The weaknesses which strike the economy as a whole — scarcities , changeovers from design to mass production — are , even in the defence sector , the principal constraints on what can be produced and how . |
| 5 | We shall also see that certain syntactic rules appear at least to be sensitive to implicature , and that implicature puts interesting constraints on what can be a possible lexical item in natural languages . |
| 6 | The practical limits on what can be achieved by laws have been illustrated repeatedly in recent years in the United Kingdom in connection with trade union legislation . |
| 7 | In the main the structure is permissive ; with some exceptions , setting limits on what can be done rather than laying down by law what must be done . |
| 8 | As the resources required to meet all demands are likely to exceed those available to society the ethical questions arise in decisions on what can be afforded , in terms of both the total amount of resources to be spent on health care compared with other demands such as education or housing and the distribution of those resources . |
| 9 | The derivation of original research proposals is never easy , but to participate in their creation and perhaps to stimulate or catalyse them can be very exciting when there are no artificial restrictions on what can be done . |