Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] can [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , if an individual or organization already owns a share on which options may be purchased , and a liability is expected to rise within the near future which can only be met by the sale of the shares , the cash flow from that sale may be secured by the purchase of put options . |
| 2 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 3 | Alcohol can also lead to poor memory and an apparently confused state of mind which can then be wrongly interpreted as the onset of senile dementia . |
| 4 | But they also raise important issues about the role of the judiciary which can only be assessed in the light of a consideration of the proper role and function of judicial review , which will be undertaken in Part IV . |
| 5 | He explained that what makes the document confidential is the fact that the creator of the document has used his brain and thus arrived at a result which can only be produced by somebody who goes through the same process . |
| 6 | A better and more organised way of handling the music feed , though , is to pre-record it onto a cued sound tape which can then be fed to the mixer non-stop . |
| 7 | This allows you to set up a different sound by altering the mid emphasis , coupled with selectable additional boost which can then be triggered by either the front panel ‘ enable ’ switch or via a footswitch . |
| 8 | daysack large enough to hold climbing gear which can also be used for lightweight weekend walking/backpacking . |
| 9 | ( i ) an anomaly which can only be removed by replacing one or more open set items is semantic ; |
| 10 | Such heroic ambition reminds one of the ambition which can frequently be seen in sons of mothers who have made their children too dependent on them but who are themselves ambitious and aggressive and unconsciously see their male children as their own frustrated masculinity — in the concrete terms in which the unconscious always thinks , as their penis . |
| 11 | The development of 19C painting in Czechoslovakia follows that elsewhere in Europe , but here it is imbued with the same emergence of a national consciousness which can also be seen in literature and architecture . |
| 12 | Nothing has been more ominous in the doctrinal shift of the 1980s than the actual hostility to this term which can now be found in Roman teaching . |
| 13 | It is important to note here that there is no single term which can accurately be used as a brief but comprehensive designation for all these heterogeneous groups . |
| 14 | Increasingly it has been recognized that there is a need to focus explicitly on the nature and form that child abuse or child protection interventions take in everyday practice , and in the process to try and identify models of good practice which can then be developed in the future . |
| 15 | Another attraction of the scheme is the flexibility it gives to general practitioners to make budgetary savings in certain aspects of their clinical practice which can then be reinvested in other aspects of patient care . |
| 16 | We have had committed staff we 've had committed voluntary workers there and there 's an awful lot of good practice which can still be upon , within that centre . |
| 17 | But the implication that Mr is that this is not a criterion which can effectively be operated at the strategic level . |
| 18 | Even jackets , which could have been done with the weaving technique , give more of a fabric which can then be lined . |
| 19 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 20 | The latest product is called FAXgrabber — which operates only in Windows — and offers the ability to take any incoming fax and convert it into text which can then be edited and inserted in other applications . |
| 21 | Communications between a person and his legal advisor have absolute privilege which can only be waived by the client . |
| 22 | Sartre is reported to have said that he did not feel free without a thousand francs in his pocket ; this is clearly a freedom which can only be enjoyed by a few . |
| 23 | CANCELLATION : When you book your accommodation , you will be entering into a legally binding contract which can only be broken by mutual consent . |
| 24 | A second instance of political change which can scarcely be regarded as minor is the rise and fall of the fascist regimes in Europe . |
| 25 | Or , even better , find a shield which can also be used as a ram ( like a chair , stool , dustbin or small table ) to knock the knifeman down or against a wall . |
| 26 | Given that the image already exists on paper , a scanner can capture it as a bitmap which can then be manipulated by a suitable graphics package . |
| 27 | By reference to the TUC 'S report on industrial democracy , it states the movement 's own position as follows : that the development of participation at national and local level has left a gap at company level which can only be filled by employee representation on the company board . |
| 28 | In the living room , wire all your hi-fi components into a multi-way adaptor which can then be plugged into a single socket outlet . |
| 29 | If the independent business has one staff member who regularly uses the computer equipment and sufficiently interested to study the manuals , that person will , given encouragement , build up expertise which can usefully be passed on . |
| 30 | Recording takes place on another screen which shows note duration with as a block-line which can then be turned automatically into standard notation . |