Example sentences of "something that can be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is [ he added , engagingly ] quite clear to me that an organisation … of this character is not something that can be handled by the ordinary … machinery or either the British Civil service or the British military machine . |
| 2 | Er not to costume them you understand but simply because a cloak is something that can be worn by a man or a woman and can be worn over whatever you have on . |
| 3 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 4 | And that 's something that can be debated through local plan inquiries . |
| 5 | And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text . |
| 6 | Freedom is not something that can be asserted in opposition to law ; it is the residue of conduct permitted in the sense that no statute or common-law rule prohibits it . |
| 7 | where keyname is something that can be altered in Windows , and the value is the value to which it is set . |
| 8 | Whether it will prove a worthwhile exercise is also not something that can be answered with a definitive yea or nay , but the potential is definitely there from a design with an unusually bold and coherent presentation , and which lacks many of the subtle compressions and colourations of big box speakers . |
| 9 | All this may sound obvious and low key : something that can be left to local people and needs no special emphasis in the introduction of major change . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not something that can be measured in time . |
| 11 | It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tourism is something that can be improved upon . |