Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [that] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrison 's epitaph on London Labour before the war , therefore , is not one that can be applied to West Ham . |
| 2 | Certainly not one that can be dredged out of a half-filled glass of flat tonic water . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In addition , it is not something that can be delegated and employees can not escape their responsibility by delegation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You can tell , Mr Millet , it 's not something that can be hidden . |
| 8 | I do not believe that the pursuit of happiness is a possibility : happiness is not something that can be chased and captured . |
| 9 | It 's not something that can be done or reproduced very easily by people without expertise . |
| 10 | ‘ Talent is a rare thing , not as universal as people seem to think — creativity is not something that can be taught , ’ she says . |
| 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 | ‘ It 's not something that can be measured in time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely . |
| 15 | It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | From the drafter 's point of view there is clearly nothing that can be done to save a clause rendered ineffective by the Act ; however , where a clause is subject to a test of reasonableness ( which will be more common in relation to clauses included in standard terms ) the drafter should try to ensure that the clause can satisfy the test . |
| 20 | Rousseau misses the point that direct experience is often inadequate as direct experience : an actual motor-car engine , even one that can be taken apart , does not really explain how internal combustion powers a car . |
| 21 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 22 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 23 | Is there yet something that can be changed ? |