Example sentences of "[noun] that can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of seeking opportunities to come clean , being realistic and perceptive about when and to whom to make an ‘ advance ’ , and taking risks that can be recouped , self-doubt floods the whole question with anxiety , and replaces a balanced point of view with crude prejudices and images of disaster . |
| 2 | The process demonstrates both response to external pressure and the action that can be taken between companies which are both based in industrialised ( and therefore interdependent ) countries . |
| 3 | Game theory , in general , postulates a set of ‘ players ’ ( the ‘ interested parties ’ , be they individuals or groups ) , each of whom has a set of strategies ; strategies meaning courses of action that can be taken , which may be conditional on moves made by the others . |
| 4 | I support the Bill , because anything that can add to the action that can be taken against car thieves is welcome . |
| 5 | If the seller does not fulfil this task , the buyer 's right to cancel is extended indefinitely or until he takes action that can be construed as accepting the agreement . |
| 6 | As many parasites occupy more than one environment during their life-cycles , they must possess suites of characteristics that can be expressed at the proper time . |
| 7 | The fabliaux do , however , maintain a number of prominent characteristics that can be called " realistic " . |
| 8 | Other complex aptitudes that can be measured in tests are : |
| 9 | Includes the history of the safari , methods of travelling , nine classic areas to visit and the animals that can be seen . |
| 10 | These figures vary , as they are bound to do , with differences in types of books stocked , binding policies , local circumstances , and — especially — the size of local bookfunds and therefore the minimum physical standard of stock that can be fixed pragmatically by each authority . |
| 11 | Appeal to ecclesiastical censure as a way of explaining the misfortunes of scientific theories is a card that can be overplayed . |
| 12 | Each box comes bundled with MS-DOS and Microsoft Corp Windows , but options include an on-board 50-pin SCSI 2 host adaptor and cable for extra storage or use of CD-ROM for multimedia applications ; and a network card that can be plugged into a 16-bit network adaptor socket . |
| 13 | 1.1 The overall goal of this investigation is to argue that there is a very great deal that can be said , that has not yet been said , about the semantic value of fundamental syntactic relations . |
| 14 | Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis . |
| 15 | The discussion so far has focused on the sociolinguistics of dialect-divergence and the methods that can be used in order to establish in-group norms of language use that are not previously part of the knowledge of the investigator . |
| 16 | Compiling a directory of employers willing to employ Downs school leavers provides the framework for clarifying the feasibility and methods that can be used in a further , more substantial research contribution . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
| 19 | I shall go into greater detail than my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East had a chance to do on the kinds of investment that can be produced , rather than the consumption boom which the Chancellor hopes for . |
| 20 | Short of drastic action , to split up a major firm ( as in the AT&T case in the US ( Alcoa , United Shoe , AT&T , and IBM ) or to order divestment ( as in Supply of Beer , 1989 ) , the remedies that can be applied are invariably weak . |
| 21 | Furniture requires finishes that can be made perfectly smooth to the touch and that can be brought to a mirror-like gloss , if required . |
| 22 | This is not an allegation that can be levelled at Frank Tipler , a cosmologist at Tulane University in Indiana . |
| 23 | As with the purchase of a share , the maximum loss that can be suffered by anyone who buys a futures contract is the initial price of the asset ( S t ) , since negative share prices are not possible . |
| 24 | Mercury in metallic form is not particularly dangerous , but many of the organic compounds that can be made from it are extremely toxic . |
| 25 | In open rock pools , Bullheads , Taurulus bubalis , Dragonets , and Gobies , are some of the small fish that can be scooped up with a small net , together with Hermit Crabs that can be spied trundling over the bottom . |
| 26 | Fortunately there are a number of useful guidelines that can be applied to both the systems on offer and the facilities you need . |
| 27 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |
| 28 | Lessons have been learned during the reclamation programme that can be applied widely elsewhere . |
| 29 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 30 | ( For example , the logically equivalent ‘ y over x ’ and ‘ x under y ’ are not psychologically equivalent : the first term in the relation should designate the thing whose location is to be determined , while the second should represent the immobile landmark that can be used to determine it . ) |