Example sentences of "what can be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riders for health is a good example of what can be achieved through good planning . |
| 2 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 3 | It is seldom practised with roses now — there is so little advantage over what can be achieved by budding — and is really of superfluous interest to be included here . |
| 4 | As well as operating trains ( which carry over 150,000 passengers p.a. ) , the entire Railway , engines , coaches , track , stations and equipment , have all been restored from total dereliction to their present condition , a remarkable example of what can be achieved by qualified volunteers . |
| 5 | The extent to which cooperation and , indeed , common policies exist among Nato members is testimony to what can be achieved by sovereign states acting together in amity . |
| 6 | This week 's threat by Ofgas regulator Sir James McKinnon to take legal action against British Gas if it does n't reduce its prices is an indication of what can be achieved by forceful regulation of the privatised utilities . ) |
| 7 | These diverse possibilities alert the practitioner to consider sensitive areas of life beyond what can be comprehended through functional assessments of current performance . |
| 8 | There is an increasing awareness that there are limitations on what can be assessed by formal written tests or examinations . |
| 9 | The product shows what can be done without formal specifications , however just how much of a lead the company has given itself is debatable : IBM said that its network node specifications will be published at the end of the month for public scrutiny . |
| 10 | These models are presented as examples of what can be done with simple equations . |
| 11 | ‘ from its opening pages , Jean Greenwood 's Class Readers presents alternatives which are a challenge to our perceptions of what can be done with graded readers , and of why the alternatives might be tried … |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that shows that there is scope , through a range of Government and quasi-government bodies , to encourage action beyond what can be done with direct Government money ? |
| 13 | What we would be looking for from you is a talk of some 15–20 minutes duration outlining what can be done for public transport by traffic management techniques and perhaps illustrated by some Lothian examples , together with a willingness to answer any questions which may be put to you . |
| 14 | Before considering what can be done about colic , we need to look at the question of lactose and lactose intolerance . |
| 15 | There are good examples of what can be done in private care . |
| 16 | The second is that the statutory services do not have the monopoly of altruism or the monopoly of occupying the high moral ground , and I think that those of you who saw the presentation given yesterday afternoon by Mike O'Reilly on the work that 's being done at Knowesouth , the private home he and his wife run , would have to concede that that was an excellent example of the kind of not only interesting , but the kind of pushing forward the boundaries of what can be done in different kinds of settings for people with dementia . |
| 17 | British Rail is doing all in its power to protect its property from acts of vandalism , but , given the many thousands of miles of infrastructure , there are inevitably limits to what can be done by British Rail alone . |
| 18 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 19 | Leaving aside several other good attempts to explain the difference between causes and causal circumstances and their effects , and also what can be said of great obstacles in the way of these attempts ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 7 , 1979 ; Ayer , 1984a ; Sanford , 1976 , 1985 ; Papineau , 1985b ; Honderich , 1986 ) , let us return to and concentrate on our ordinary convictions about the difference . |
| 20 | Like most physicists , he is also too sympathetic to quantitative arguments in the ‘ science of science ’ , by comparison with what can be learnt from qualitative studies . |
| 21 | The historical sources tend to be accepted unless there is evidence to the contrary , by which process much of what can be read about Anglo-Saxon England is based on uncorroborated historical evidence written down hundreds of years after the events they describe . |
| 22 | Both of these veteran airliners gave a spritely performance despite their age , proving that there are no bounds to what can be preserved in flying condition in the USA . |
| 23 | In practice the team has not only explored what can be provided within individual schools , but developed and encouraged co.operative schemes between schools and colleges within particular neighbourhoods ; and all this work was further supported by the existence of the authority 's education library , media resources centre , film library , television service and related activities . |
| 24 | The case of Deerhurst in Gloucestershire may serve as a useful example to show what can be learned about early land use and also to indicate some of the pitfalls . |
| 25 | Such competing explanations tend to different predictions of what can be expected in early adulthood as to whether or not the former truants have , for example , experienced difficulties in the labour market or high levels of unemployment , acquired qualifications since leaving school , or met with problems in other aspects of their lives such as their marriages or their mental health . |