Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | where keyname is something that can be altered in Windows , and the value is the value to which it is set . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | What binds all these discordant currents into something that can be called a community ? |
| 36 | I do not believe that the pursuit of happiness is a possibility : happiness is not something that can be chased and captured . |
| 37 | You can tell , Mr Millet , it 's not something that can be hidden . |
| 38 | something that can be addressed wi with a few cable ties , cos sometimes tying the cables together make a more of a danger than |
| 39 | Similarly , though there are inevitably problems and exceptions , we continue to treat the tone-unit as something that can be described , defined and recognised . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 42 | ‘ It 's not something that can be measured in time . |
| 43 | It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 46 | And it 's something that can be avoided so easily . |
| 47 | Tourism is something that can be improved upon . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | You see despair as something that can be rooted out by machines — some sort of a steam-shovel , perhaps . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | You need something that can be changed every day as the number grows , somewhere people can see it every day . |
| 52 | Is there yet something that can be changed ? |
| 53 | One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely . |
| 54 | For Mill it 's very important that citizens are educated for their role and although participation on a na national level has to be something that can be restricted only to the few , Mill nevertheless wants active participation of the citizens in other aspects . |
| 55 | This is still a problem with modern plastic plumbing pipe , but one that can be overcome if the pipe is well supported and space is left for expansion . |
| 56 | It is an all-purpose complaint , one that can be invoked by a frustrated middle class to express its dashed expectations in the wake of Brazil 's decanonized ‘ Economic Miracle ’ , by the urban working class to express their condition of relative powerlessness , and by an impoverished class of displaced sugar-cane cutters and their families to express their hunger . |
| 57 | The presumption that the husband is the father of his wife 's children is one that can be overthrown only by evidence of the most cogent , even though not of the most direct , kind . |
| 58 | When you think about a spreadsheet database the idea to have in mind is of an active list — one that can be asked to supply any of the details you have typed into it . |
| 59 | Morrison 's epitaph on London Labour before the war , therefore , is not one that can be applied to West Ham . |
| 60 | A very fresh addition to the arcade section , great fun and one that can be played over and over again . |