Example sentences of "[Wh det] can be [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Steering Group believes that the development of Departmental Road Safety Plans would enhance the contribution to casualty reduction which can be made by Regional Council and Police personnel .
2 Mechanical damage applied to the lamina of one of the cotyledons of a tomato seedling with one expanded leaf ( Fig. 1 a ) leads to electrical activity ( Fig. 1 b ) which can be detected by extracellular electrodes placed on the stem and on the petiole of leaf 1 , morphologically the lowest ( first-formed ) leaf ( Fig. 1 a ) .
3 Individual brain cells are electrically active , producing the characteristic impulses known as ‘ action potentials ’ which can be detected by fine probes placed near to the nerve cells or their axons .
4 The whole process produces characteristic structural changes in the metal which can be detected by microscopic study of sections through the artefact .
5 … can you excuse yourselves from comprehending matters which can be understood by plain common sense ?
6 Our workshop , on Staff Development for Language Teachers in Secondary Schools , although highlighting the informal possibilities which can be developed by committed teachers operating collectively wherever they happen to be working , was not intended to weaken the case for proper provision for community languages with proper validation of the existing expertise .
7 However , the team of Medical Research Council researchers based at Edinburgh 's Western General Hospital are hoping to refine the gene complex into a spray which can be inhaled by human sufferers .
8 Second , how to create aesthetic forms which are seen to deal with this successfully ( that is , which can be internalised by disabled people in struggle ) .
9 The most basic of these relates to personal physical mobility , which can be impaired by physical handicap or old age .
10 Operating theatres , accident and emergency departments and Day Hospitals may also have uneven workloads of a different pattern which can be met by part-time employees .
11 You may have vaginal thrush or perhaps an ‘ anaerobic ’ vaginitis , a very common infection which can be caused by various microbes , not necessarily sexually transmitted .
12 Teachers should never treat non-standard dialect as sub-standard language but should recognise the intimate links between dialect and identity and the damage to self-esteem and motivation which can be caused by indiscriminate ‘ correction ’ of dialect forms .
13 A similar approach can be based on an examination of the metal alloy of a coin , which can be determined by scientific analysis ( see also fig. 11 ) .
14 Micritic carbonates such as those from mud build-ups and some calcretes may also have cryptic textures which can be revealed by gentle etching with a dilute acid ( e.g. 5% hydrochloric acid ) .
15 Like the variation in human voices , every process has its own distinctive acoustic signature which can be recognised by simple and robust microphones .
16 Secondly , the European Court judgment provided a method of approach to media rights which can be adopted by British judges .
17 The positivist view is that crime , along with all other natural and social phenomena , is caused by factors and processes which can be discovered by scientific investigation .
18 Flexibility of working due to variety of equipment available , all or most of which can be operated by existing staff
19 This induced the rapid onset of apoptosis which can be quantitated by time-lapse cinemicroscopy .
20 Well , fortunately , new ground has been broken by some of our novelists , ground which can be husbanded by new writers .
21 You then whip the cream ( it is easier if you have left it an hour or two in the refrigerator after cooling ) and when it stands in peaks you can turn it in to the muslin or clean napkin with which you have lined an earthenware or metal cheese mould or drainer — which can be improvised by piercing holes in a cheap cake tin or in a tub-shaped carton — and leave it 3 or 4 hours , or overnight .
22 From nine months to four years a child can use a seat in the back that faces forwards and which can be secured by rear seat belts or their anchorage points .
23 three appendices , detailing new monsters , new spells and magic items , and a horrifying new disease — all of which can be encountered by incautious adventurers in Castle Drachenfels .
24 But unlike the W particles , which can be predicted by other ‘ non-unified ’ theories , the Z o is a feature only of a theory that unifies forces in a particular way .
25 Minor toxicities include nausea , vomiting , flushing and diarrhoea — all of which can be managed by conventional means — as well as episodic fever and rigours ; these side-effects must be differentiated for those due to infection and other causes .
26 Some argue that the dominant effect of the new technology will be to de-skill the workforce , destroying craft occupations and fragmenting jobs into meaningless elements which can be performed by unskilled operators controlled by large-scale bureaucracies run in the interests of international capital .
27 It is posited here that the maleffects of reproductive patterns upon maternal and child health and mortality represent largely unnecessary personal and social burdens , some of which can be eliminated by successful family planning and some by the formal education of both women and men , but especially women .
28 They will identify and ‘ think through ’ the issues — or rather do the market analysis that substitutes for political thought — and create the slogans and policies in terms of the conditioned reflexes of the electorate which can be controlled by political advertising on the issues .
29 Paintbrush/Frieze PCX format : Paintbrush is a screen drawing programme from Zsoft , and Frieze is a terminate-stay-resident utility which can be used by other applications to capture a screen to a .
30 Some firms sell data , such as the names and addresses of their customers , which can be used by other companies for mailing lists .
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