Example sentences of "something [that] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while skill is something that can be trained other aspects of success may be pre-determined . |
| 2 | ‘ Talent is a rare thing , not as universal as people seem to think — creativity is not something that can be taught , ’ she says . |
| 3 | On the credit side , it should be said that there is now an acute awareness in the Soviet Union and the East European countries that pollution is a social and political issue and not just something that can be categorized vaguely as an environmental problem and shoved to the debit side of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 4 | This must mean , in terms of the figure , an increase in the number of a and b elements activated by the stimuli , something that can be represented diagrammatically in more than one way . |
| 5 | Otherness is not so much something to be frightened of , a threat to the stability of the self , as something that can be added to or incorporated into the already existing . |
| 6 | You can also ask for the patient 's meal to be cut up in the kitchen ready to eat , although this is something that can be done when you order the meal . |
| 7 | Freedom is not something that can be asserted in opposition to law ; it is the residue of conduct permitted in the sense that no statute or common-law rule prohibits it . |
| 8 | The economic strength of society is not something that can be peeled off and thought of separately from the quality of the life of those who are members of that society . |
| 9 | I do not believe that the pursuit of happiness is a possibility : happiness is not something that can be chased and captured . |
| 10 | All this may sound obvious and low key : something that can be left to local people and needs no special emphasis in the introduction of major change . |
| 11 | Whether it will prove a worthwhile exercise is also not something that can be answered with a definitive yea or nay , but the potential is definitely there from a design with an unusually bold and coherent presentation , and which lacks many of the subtle compressions and colourations of big box speakers . |
| 12 | I mentioned earlier that I encountered a problem with the bass E string , but it 's something that can be easily rectified . |
| 13 | It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted . |
| 14 | It is [ he added , engagingly ] quite clear to me that an organisation … of this character is not something that can be handled by the ordinary … machinery or either the British Civil service or the British military machine . |
| 15 | You can tell , Mr Millet , it 's not something that can be hidden . |
| 16 | What binds all these discordant currents into something that can be called a community ? |
| 17 | where keyname is something that can be altered in Windows , and the value is the value to which it is set . |
| 18 | All members of the obstetric and midwifery staff should speak the same language and use the same method of classification — something that can be achieved only by regular meetings on cardiotocography . |
| 19 | In addition , it is not something that can be delegated and employees can not escape their responsibility by delegation . |
| 20 | That is something that can be argued over in specific instances . |
| 21 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 22 | It 's not something that can be changed , like maybe management but erm it 's it 's just that , you know , to be careful , that if you 're doing these things , there 's some things which , I think women can do , and a lot of things that women should be doing , maybe there 's other things which just are n't there for them just now . |
| 23 | something that can be addressed wi with a few cable ties , cos sometimes tying the cables together make a more of a danger than |
| 24 | And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text . |
| 25 | You need something that can be changed every day as the number grows , somewhere people can see it every day . |
| 26 | And it 's something that can be avoided so easily . |
| 27 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not something that can be measured in time . |
| 29 | You see despair as something that can be rooted out by machines — some sort of a steam-shovel , perhaps . |
| 30 | As we have witnessed in the preceding chapter , the ideological contest for control of the past is largely predicated on the basis of the Renaissance being a phenomenon , something that can be discovered and controlled by accurate descriptions of what it is . |