Example sentences of "[conj] what can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syllabus makers appear to suffer from a sad tendency to measure curriculum content by what is contained in the syllabus and textbooks rather than by what is , or what can be , absorbed by the learners . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The unexpected usually occurs in military affairs for the simple reason that what can be foreseen can be deterred and so tends not to happen . |
| 4 | Last year was erm , an additional twenty thousand pounds at the last moment , chickenfeed for the big committees , that 's the annoying thing , but what particularly annoys me , and I have to say this , I 'll express it is the knowledge that what can be a phenomenal deprivation to this Committee , goes very , very , very little towards solving the major problems that this county faces , it does n't have a tremendous impact . |
| 5 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 6 | The great British films all tap into a problem , the gap between what is felt and what can be expressed , that is universal but gains a particular inflection from being seen in the British context . |
| 7 | Nothing changes/feelings shift , move endlessly in circles/moths beating at glass endlessly/all that energy expended on nothing/no-one lets you in/desire and what can be desired are all fixed within strict parameters/ established as everything you 're not/desire written against your body/encoded in all the spaces which are not you/contours which are not yours/you occupy the gap between desire and fulfilment/absence of choice/no choice at all/why are moths nocturnal when so strongly attracted to light ? |
| 8 | Emotionally troubled people can not be expected to deal with their emotions until they are able to understand what those emotions are , how they have arisen , and what can be done to overcome them . |
| 9 | Later we shall come to look at the practical areas where conflict is most often experienced and what can be done about it . |
| 10 | And what can be done about it ? |
| 11 | But these men could do much more to help , not only their partners , but themselves , if only they understood what the menopause is and what can be done to alleviate the problems . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Boeing 707 is a big aeroplane , and sorting out what is important and necessary to the more detailed examination that is to follow and what can be cut off and discarded as scrap requires sound judgement . |
| 14 | All these people are , as I have mentioned , civil servants because it is a government responsibility to have a competent organisation which will establish how and why members of the public are killed or maimed in aircraft accidents and what can be done to reduce the risks of flying . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This done , the next broad area to be covered was the need to examine the various models of community economic development , how local people can be involved in the process of regenerating their areas , how the process can best be facilitated and what can be realistically achieved . |
| 17 | If the teacher seemed quite happy with the episode involved , then in discussion after the lesson the observer can try to gather how the teacher feels about the intended pattern of behaviour , why it did not occur , and what can be done . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | No signed or documented work by her is known and what can be assembled as an oeuvre emerges from the few surviving miniatures between 1545 and 1575 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The guide outlines what harassment is and what can be done to combat the problem both formally and informally . |
| 22 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 23 | In the production context , of course , what can be bought are resources , and what can be sold are products . [ … ] |
| 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 | An amnesty campaign is one way in which police forces can draw a great deal of local attention to the threat of knives and what can be done about it . |
| 26 | The Centre 's major current research is on unemployment , asking why the level of unemployment has been so high , and what can be done about it . |
| 27 | The empirical approach is concerned with what is and what can be seen and touched , proceeding on the basis of testing and retesting and largely rejecting dogma and abstract or coherent grand designs for change . |
| 28 | To protect the defendant , separate forms of judgment explain both how judgment was entered ( eg in default , on acceptance ) and what can be done if judgment has been wrongly entered . |
| 29 | The problem is that annuity rates fall as interest rates fall , so is it a good time to buy an annuity when interest rates are low and what can be done about it ? |
| 30 | Why is this and what can be done about it ? |