Example sentences of "which we can [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Physiological psychology presents a range of major methodological challenges , and how well we meet these challenges affects the ease with which we can interpret the experiments that we carry out .
2 It said the code represented a ‘ foundation for good practice and ethical conduct … on which we can build the growing reputation of the industry ’ .
3 There is another way in which we can inspect the growth of population , and that is by seeing it at work in all the various classes of society .
4 The first of these concerns the attempt to construct a general theoretical framework in terms of which we can answer the ‘ limited ’ particular questions of the second .
5 There is another way in which we can confirm the role played by climate and the carbon atom in the creation of organic life .
6 We see the provision of information from Visitor Centres at all of our sites as being one of the most significant ways in which we can make the information resources of the Garden available to the maximum number of people at reasonable cost .
7 ‘ Our well-paid spin-doctors must get off their backsides , Mr Chairman , and give us the tools with which we can finish the job . ’
8 It might be the opportunity of a world summit , or an earth summit , at which we can involve the public in Britain and throughout Europe in understanding that we have a common environment throughout the world .
9 Having established that body rhythms are a mixture of internal and external causes , we need to have some experimental means by which we can measure the contribution of each to the total rhythm .
10 Equally , My Lords it is very important that we should try and see if there are ways in which we can meet the anxieties of Noble Lords .
11 What I have said that I would do is to consider what your Lordships have said to see if there is any way in which we can meet the problem .
12 To this end he used a metaphor drawn from mathematics , the variable , to create " devices by which we can characterize the objects of empirical social investigation " .
13 Two figures occur in the open literature from which we can deduce the amount released in the radioactive cloud that crossed England and Wales and Western Europe .
14 The first , labelled urban managerialism , focuses on the activities of councillors , officers and pressures groups ; the second , labelled urban politics , focuses on the politics of consumption and , in one version at least , identifies a dual state in which the local state is principally concerned with consumption issues ; the third , which we can label the social relations approach , stresses the importance of locality and uneven development as the basis for local politics .
15 The model described in the last section provides a framework within which we can examine the effect of the government on the long-run development of wealth-holding .
16 At the time of Nietzsche 's move to Basle , none of his major works were yet conceived , but it is the winter of this year , 1860–70 , to which we can trace the genesis of The Birth of Tragedy , his first .
17 This is one clear way in which we can recognise the clear distinction between the form of human personality and the form of divine personality .
18 It 's something which we can have the luxury of considering .
19 If we now take the opposite extreme , that of a gas , we do not know the positions of atoms , merely their mean velocities , and the only relation we can obtain between load and displacement derives from the gas law from which we can obtain the " bulk modulus ' of the gas and this " modulus ' is entirely entropic in origin , no elastic forces being involved .
20 The second is the fact that we tend to make ourselves miserable by exploring the limits to which we can resist the temptation to go all the way .
21 Here , then , is the second way in which we can connect the Marxist or political economy perspectives on urban sociology to our particular interest in human nature .
22 We first consider a very simple computer , with which we can introduce the basic concepts and terminology required for the remainder of the book .
23 At the beginning of this chapter it was suggested that the main features by which we can characterise the wider category of positivist criminology ( and which also serve to distinguish it from classical criminology ) are determinism , differentiation , pathology and the diversion of attention away from crime ( and the criminal law ) to the criminal .
24 Thus , for example , Salaman ( 1979 , p.61 ) has defined structure as ‘ the way in which work is organised and control exercised ’ , a definition in which we can see the twofold emphasis on relationships of communication and authority .
25 One of the most welcome sights around Hailing which we can thank the Romans for are the pheasants , it is reckoned they were first introduced by them and were quickly established here in Kent .
26 And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way .
27 What it represents I would suggest , is the desperate attempt to trim off the margin to find every single last way in which we can follow the government diktat whilst preserving our full services .
28 The romance of ardent feeling and eager endeavour never becomes cloying or sentimental because it is sustained by , included in , that movement in space and time which we can call the action of a story .
29 There is no determinate object , then , which we can call the meaning of this sentence .
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