Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [that] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the Hooligans , newspaper cartoonists ' sketches of their dress permutation depicted a more sharply defined style than anything that can be discerned by modern eyes from surviving photographs of the period — although that should not surprise us , because it is also a characteristic feature of the emphasis given to the cut of clothes within ‘ high ’ fashion sketches . |
| 2 | But that , it appears , would be a far more monstrous solution than anything that can be dreamed up in a laboratory . |
| 3 | Similarly , though there are inevitably problems and exceptions , we continue to treat the tone-unit as something that can be described , defined and recognised . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You see despair as something that can be rooted out by machines — some sort of a steam-shovel , perhaps . |