Example sentences of "that can be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 At the bottom of the argument about running state schools like a chain of McDonalds hamburger restaurants , handing out Big Mac gift vouchers to disadvantaged kids , is the issue of whether education is ultimately just a utilitarian service to the marketplace that can be understood in simple commercial language , or something more important and fundamental that warrants different treatment .
2 There are always two sets of reasons that can be given for psychical events , one that is phrased in terms of the culture 's Weltanschuung , and the other which the psychoanalytic observer can bring in terms of the unconscious feelings underlying the system .
3 Education has learned to grab with ease but not to reach out and yet there is a good deal of help that can be given to small businesses and voluntary organisations once the idea of level three partnership has been grasped .
4 Any food enjoyed by the child that can be given in small ‘ pieces ’ for example : yoghurt , cheese , biscuits .
5 If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word .
6 All Stick models now come with new , mega-adjustable hardware : a new bridge/tailpiece unit , a patented truss rod , a height-adjustable nut , a pickup that can be tweaked for individual string volume and a four-way strap system for altering the angle of dangle .
7 Early afterdepolarisations are transient membrane oscillations triggered by a previous cardiac depolarisation that can be sustained in succeeding cycles by repeated triggering of the EAD to cause a tachyarrhythmia ( fig 2 ) .
8 Insufficient attention has hitherto been given to the role that can be played by scholarly publication in influencing harmonization .
9 Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis .
10 ‘ This resulted in an extension of the available technology that can be applied to nuclear plant for process , safety and safeguarding purposes .
11 ‘ In order to achieve this , measures must be developed that can be applied at particular neuralgic points only and that will all the same have a traffic restraining effect on the whole area .
12 Another intriguing aspect of water is its ability to form different crystal patterns , such as the different crystal forms of ice and snow that are produced under different weather conditions and the different ices that can be obtained under high pressures .
13 There are a number of commercially available dictionaries that can be obtained in machine-readable form .
14 While the Canadian business has been profitable , WH Smith believes the returns being obtained on £75m of sales from 200 outlets are not comparable with the returns that can be obtained in other markets and did not justify the future investment necessary to develop the chain .
15 ‘ I hear you better when I can see your face ’ is a fundamental truth that can be repeated in different ways according to circumstances : ‘ Please would you repeat that .
16 This can be compared with the form of the WLF equation where ατ is the reduced variables shift factor , C 1 and C 2 are constants that can be evaluated from experimental data , and are found to be and when T g is the reference temperature .
17 Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence .
18 This second major approach hinges on a distinction that can be made between selective assessment and affirmative assessment .
19 There is also a limitless number of shapes that can be made from pressed material , so you need never run out of inspiration .
20 Some bonds have option features attached to them : callable and puttable bonds are examples of this , as are convertible bonds ( bonds that can be converted into other types of bonds or into equity ) and bonds with warrants attached to them .
21 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 .
22 In the pre-Hellenistic sections of the Bible there is no notion that can be ascribed to Greek influence : indeed there is no certain Greek word .
23 So we have an operatic phenomenon that can be explained in good , old-fashioned aesthetic terms .
24 And that 's something that can be debated through local plan inquiries .
25 The World Bank estimated in 1970 that in cities such as Bogota in Columbia , Mexico City , Madras and Ahmadabad in India , and Nairobi in Kenya , between a half and two-thirds of the households could not afford even a house of £300–£1500 — the cheapest that can be built with modern materials such as cement and fired bricks .
26 This awareness has driven us to evolve new systems that can be tailored to local needs and which reflect current advances in auditing techniques . ’
27 In this section , I am concerned with the modifications to the inner-city vernacular that can be observed in outer-city language .
28 If you 've never had a day 's illness in your life , it 's hard to imagine the financial disruption that can be caused by sudden hospitalisation .
29 The importance of the distinction is that there can be no action for slander unless the plantiff has suffered damage that can be calculated in monetary terms .
30 It stems from the structure of income tax , which is built around the idea of tax allowances that can be offset against taxable income .
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