Example sentences of "thing which can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mere observation and reporting is inadequate , given the limited scope of things which can be truly observed ( Holy 1984 : 25 ) . |
| 2 | It is in the life and fragrance of that person , Jesus of Nazareth , that we have a pattern of care and love for all things which can be the basis for a discipleship that takes in a holistic approach to life . |
| 3 | The Home itself is the first place to start getting people active , and there are all kinds of things which can be done which only need a bit of imagination and common sense rather than expense . |
| 4 | Worknet is the product of a growing awareness that within this community these are things which can be achieved by a well organised , well targeted voluntary organisation which seeks to assist in the creation of employment . |
| 5 | The first says that the things which can be verified , theories , can never be conclusively verified . |
| 6 | Many students , teachers , educationalists , and examiners like to deal with things which can be classified as clearly right or wrong , and perhaps this is one reason why they have favoured an atomistic approach to foreign language learning , for communication is hard to assess , whereas isolated levels like grammar and vocabulary are much easier . |
| 7 | All these are things which can be changed . |
| 8 | Dealers take account of the areas sown with each kind of grain , of the forwardness and weight of the crops , of the supply of things which can be used as substitutes for grain , and of the things for which grain can be used as a substitute . |
| 9 | The study is re- examining the national accounts measurement of government services ; it argues that most public servants in fact do things which can be measured and it provides some alternative estimates for real output growth in education , health and public administration ( which compares well with broadly analogous private financial services ) . |
| 10 | A distinction must be made at this stage between things which can be used to make unauthorized copies of programs , but which also have legitimate uses ( for example , computers with two disk drives and cassette players with twin tape decks ) and things specifically designed to overcome copy-protection such as software to be used to copy other software which has been copy-protected . |
| 11 | According to them the capitalist representation of labour , the idea that labour is a thing which can be bought and sold , came about as a result of certain economic and technical developments in medieval towns . |
| 12 | Recently , I had cause to telephone the factory in pursuit of another non-standard modification — the sort of thing which can be a real pain when you have two new model lines to get into production . |
| 13 | ‘ Practically the only good thing which can be said about the patronage system , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ is that it prevents dioceses selling off or pulling down at least some few of their beautiful buildings . ’ |
| 14 | I did hear of some people who had trouble getting tickets and that there was a delay in receiving them — some apparently not arriving until the week or even the day before the start but that is the sort of thing which can be learnt from and things will improve on future all-ticket matches . |