Example sentences of "[noun prp] that can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Er the United States er in , in short , the , the principal er actor here er is immune from criticism because if these strikes fail it 's simply er bad luck , erm there 's no cost to the United States that can be translated into the domestic er arena and made dangerous to the incumbent president . |
2 | Secondly , the proportion of SERPS that can be inherited by a spouse has been reduced to a half rather than the full amount under the original scheme ( Walker , 1986 , p. 193 ) . |
3 | The garrulity of women — one of St Jerome 's first objections — clearly underlies the crude joke of Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , noted above , and woman 's moral weakness is apparent in Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , a version of a tale known as the Matron of Ephesus that can be traced as far back as to the classical author Petronius . |
4 | So long as there is coal in the United Kingdom that can be extracted efficiently from the ground , I see no day when we could envisage an energy policy that did not embrace coal . |
5 | Finally , look for the chapel of Sant Caterina that can be reached from the left transept . |
6 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
7 | Another job for Seddon and the Yard — and it will need a bit of cooperation from the G.P.O. That can be arranged without much difficulty . |
8 | He said : ‘ There is not one club in Britain that can be compared to this one — the trouble is people in England just do n't realise that . |
9 | It is also worth noting here that the only mid-Tertiary movements in northern Europe that can be called an orogeny are in Spitsbergen , where we find the last expression of an Atlantic compressive line clearly preserved down the west coast , presumably reflecting the continued grinding together of the northernmost tip of the European plate with that of Greenland . |
10 | Of the seven wars with France that can be counted between 1690 and 1815 , only one was indisputably a war about colonies , but of course all of them affected the colonies and their inhabitants . |
11 | Copse Corner , copse er , is , is a name which we give to a small wood , a small group of trees is a copse , in India that can be called a shola , S H O L A |
12 | The first reference to John that can be traced is in Muirkirk Session records in which there is an entry — ‘ On 19th September , 1680 , it was delated to the Session that John Browne in Priesthill … ( and others ) … did not attend public ordinances . ’ |