Example sentences of "[noun sg] that can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I support the Bill , because anything that can add to the action that can be taken against car thieves is welcome . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Appeal to ecclesiastical censure as a way of explaining the misfortunes of scientific theories is a card that can be overplayed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most important , the formal statistical reasoning that can be applied to a-priori hypotheses is strictly invalid for exploratory analysis . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is not an allegation that can be levelled at Frank Tipler , a cosmologist at Tulane University in Indiana . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lessons have been learned during the reclamation programme that can be applied widely elsewhere . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 . ) |
| 17 | It has been proved that creativity is a new development of the mind that can be cultivated . |
| 18 | As a simple example of a prediction that can be tested using the laser vaporization tube set-up , the collapsing model predicts ( as does the pentagon road ) that the ratio of the C 70 yield to the C 60 yield will be high when the tube temperature is low , and vice versa . |
| 19 | Radar can provide a more direct determination of axial period if there is a feature in the echo that can be inferred to have come from a surface feature on the planet , such as a mountain or a region with a particular composition or texture . |
| 20 | Such plans will henceforth be subject to approval from CCMLR ; , A limit of 1.5 million tonnes has been set on the amount of krill that can be caught . |
| 21 | The useful research that can be done requires neither a large station nor a permanent manned presence . |
| 22 | Measuring changes in urine acid output at breakfast time provides a reliable indirect measure of gastric acid secretion that can be used in field conditions , enabling the relation between gastric acid output and the development of diarrhoeal diseases to be investigated . |
| 23 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 24 | the thinnest rule that can be printed . |
| 25 | Similarly , her observation that the U.K. feels bitterness towards nations of a stronger foundation ( morally and economically ) is a rule that can be applied here too . |
| 26 | Again , this is a rule that can be broken , but I 've never yet seen a design with more than two needles tucking side by side . |
| 27 | " With regard to the Native custom affecting cases of this kind , there is possibly no definite rule that can be made applicable to all cases and to all districts , but this rule appears to be applicable everywhere , that when a woman of one tribe or hapu marries into another tribe or hapu , her rights become extinguished , unless some act of ownership is exercised either by herself or her immediate descendants . |
| 28 | A tree that goes in a chipper as a 7ft , 20lb pine comes out as a pile of fragrant mulch that can be carried away in a small box to be used in parks or gardens . |
| 29 | He will tell you whether there are any restrictions on the type of insulation that can be used ( urea-formaldehyde foam is not generally recommended in areas exposed to severe driving rain , for example ) . |
| 30 | During bar 1 the A-B bends should be pitched slightly flat in order to produce the bluesy effect that can be heard on the track . |