Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] can be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Information can be gathered by means of a questionnaire which new adherents are either invited to fill in themselves , or which can be completed in an interview by one of the church leaders .
2 Secure ground floor windows first and any window which ca n't be seen from the street or which can be reached from a drainpipe or flat roof .
3 These take the curriculum and re-present it in ‘ bite-sized pieces ’ , usually in courses of between 20 and 30 hours , which may be put together for an award like GCSE or which can be taken as free-standing units .
4 But he expresses this by saying that we ‘ can proceed no farther by reasoning than to things which must be exposed again to experience or which can be evidenced by means of some appearance ’ ; and this seems to suggest something new .
5 As people get wealthier right , one of the , they not only demand more goods , but they demand a wider variety of what is essentially or what can be classified as the same good .
6 There is a small slot in the centre of the thermostat which is marked in °C and which can be adjusted with a screwdriver .
7 No insects and no fish have so far been found to use sonar , but two quite different groups of fish , one in South America and one in Africa , have developed a somewhat similar navigation system , which appears to be just about as sophisticated and which can be seen as a related , but different , solution to the same problem .
8 Some of these synapses are on the shafts of the dendrites , others are attached to the tiny spines which stud the dendritic surface and which can be seen in Figure 10.6 .
9 The first feature to strike a motorist passing through and which can be seen from several miles away , is Hoyles windmill .
10 The frequency of step commands produced by the oscillator is ramped up to the clock frequency at a rate which is determined by the filter parameters and which can be matched to the motor/lead combination .
11 But the structure and functioning of grinding or chewing teeth in other mammals , in which opposing teeth co-operate in action , and which can be matched in extinct , unrelated mammals , is a much more subtle matter , involving detailed studies on the operation of living dental systems to help elucidate the functioning of fossil ones .
12 Reicher , for instance , distinguishes between a perception , which is individual and often ‘ openly partisan ’ , and an account , which consists of events described in the same way by two or more sources , and which can be tested against ‘ objective ’ indices , such as , film and photographs ’ ( Reicher 1984b : 190 ) .
13 The fact that some sufferers die of their addictive disease regardless of their awareness of the Anonymous Fellowships is not an argument in favour of the use of other methods of treatment which were manifestly of no help to those who did recover and which can be observed to be of no help to those who still suffer .
14 However , there is an important difference between what might be called the doctrine of empiricism , and scientific theory , which must be empirical in the sense that statements can be deduced from theory which are about particular events and which can be checked by observation .
15 Learners acquire a particular language by receiving comprehensible input , that is to say by being exposed to messages expressed in language which is within the current acquired competence of the learners , together with language which is due to appear in the next stage of acquisition , and which can be eased into the mind by the help of context , knowledge of the world and so on .
16 In the field of clinical linguistics , there are many conditions which , it is often assumed , have similar causes and which can be treated in similar ways .
17 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 .
18 He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased .
19 The third meaning of this word ‘ love ’ is the one which is applied to the intense physical attraction between the sexes , known as falling in love , and which can be described as an intensification and beautification of the mating urge .
20 Now let's take a look at talents and abilities you already possess and which can be adapted to new uses in whatever new direction you want your life to take .
21 As such the concept of social representation will necessarily be some son of general , background concept , and it will be difficult to find elements of socially shared consciousness , which are not social representations and which can be used for contrastive purposes .
22 As with pupil-created databases , word processing allows pupils to produce work which is professional in layout and which can be used by other pupils .
23 Other troops which have a supporting role , and which can be considered in this category are Orc and Savage Orc Boyz armed with bows or crossbows .
24 I know that he has first-hand experience of the benefits of GM schools , as the school that used to be known as Wold Newton transferred to grant-maintained status a few months ago and is showing the way and what can be achieved as a result of a move to grant-maintained status .
25 This was perhaps the most fundamental bone of contention between Adorno 's high modernist aesthetic ( Wellmer 1984–5 ) and what can be understood as Benjamin 's postmodernist alternative .
26 It is generally true that if organisations try to set up such functions in-house , they are unlikely to keep and retain the best people ; thus there is always a gulf between the in-house employees and their performance and what can be obtained in the way of services by using external consultants to undertake the job .
27 If we accept that public opinion broadly comes in two varieties : the popular and what can be regarded as the informed , each of the two strands is clearly visible whenever Parliament addresses the topic of criminal justice .
28 Later we shall come to look at the practical areas where conflict is most often experienced and what can be done about it .
29 And what can be done about it ?
30 However , she said : ‘ The caring 90s is a current media theme , and has more to do with caring about what is happening to the British society and what can be done about it , than about spending more to underpin the disadvantaged and the dependent . ’
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