Example sentences of "[pron] which can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 2 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 3 | Others possess cultures of phosphorescent bacteria in special organs with flaps of skin over them which can be moved to expose or conceal the bacteria in a series of winks and flashes . |
| 4 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 5 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 6 | I think it helps if you can identify whether the the erm depression is just caused by erm the circumstances round about you which can be alleviated by changing them or if it 's caused by eating habits or erm or erm hormones or chemical imbalances in , I 've suffered , I think , from all them as well ! |
| 7 | We should try to see space itself as something which can be made as articulate as verbal language . |
| 8 | In particular , it may foster the inventor 's ill-informed optimism that he has something which can be developed and exploited for commercial gain . |
| 9 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 10 | Postscript is recognisable as something which can be written and read by us humans . |
| 11 | We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained . |
| 12 | They will see the gradual integration of text , graphics and video into a single multimedia approach as something which can be handled within the reskilling tradition which is now being established . |
| 13 | In this important respect , and in common with more formal economic analysis , her study fails to appreciate the need to gain a much fuller understanding of microeconomic behaviour ; something which can be done only through detailed investigation of individual businesses and economic institutions [ Major , 1979 ] . |
| 14 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 15 | You either have it or you do not — talent is certainly not something which can be taught . |
| 16 | Why do human cultures contain something which can be called ‘ religion ’ ? |
| 17 | True relaxation is something which can be learned by anyone — although , like anything worth having , it does take a little practice . |
| 18 | Your notebook is the tool which enables you to take any experience , any observation , any physical sensation and turn it into something which can be shared by others . |
| 19 | His example makes it seem that the circle is not simply a detachable result of , or something which can be considered in isolation from , certain motions , but rather something whose very nature and properties are essentially tied up with its method of production . |
| 20 | Moreover , industrial structure is not something which can be resolved merely by general debate over a general checklist of factors . |
| 21 | A will in my judgment is a document which must at least purport to contain something which can be described as a testamentary disposition . |
| 22 | They see labour as something which can be bought and sold and , for them , that is all there is to it ; when they use that idea of labour they are unaware of and unconcerned with what has caused it . |
| 23 | One of Beto 's constant themes is that classification is something which can be carried out properly only by staff who have both human insight in general and a specific knowledge of the prison system and the background of most of its clients . |
| 24 | This is not something which can be left to governments or industry ; each one of us must be aware of our own actions — what products we use , how we treat the earth and so on . |
| 25 | The need for industrial application shows the practical nature of patent law , which requires that the invention should be something which can be produced or that it relates to some sort of industrial process . |
| 26 | This is n't something which can be forced , you know . |
| 27 | As Roy Hattersley , himself an opponent of the scheme , reminded journalists yesterday , proportional representation would involve a radical change from one form of democracy to another ; it is n't something which can be taken lightly . |
| 28 | Grab any makeshift weapon as the gang approaches — something which can be used as a club or baton is best — and attack at once . |
| 29 | When this first draft has been done the researcher has something which can be worked on . |
| 30 | By its nature , this area — in common with management performance — is not one which can be analysed by the Cartesian methods of economists . |