Example sentences of "[vb base] which can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ map ’ has many advantages : it preserves a record of the sample in its initial state before treatment ; it gives an overall view of the section or peel which can be used as a guide for subsequent detailed work , and it offers a convenient and rapid way of comparing samples . |
| 2 | Touch Typing Tutor is a Windows program which can be used as a training aid for the novice or as a method for the more accomplished typist to improve their speed and accuracy . |
| 3 | The voltage applied to each phase circuit is a d.c. supply which can be switched on or off in the positive or negative sense . |
| 4 | The manager has to be clear about the purpose of improvement and will use knowledge and support which can be brought from other places into the field which he or she can directly manage . |
| 5 | The Institute of Investment Management and Research ( IIMR , formerly the Society of Investment Analysts ) has set up a sub-committee under my chairmanship to decide on the calculation of an earnings figure which can be used for the per-share calculation and for price/earnings ratios . |
| 6 | Replacing in eqn ( 8.2 ) by gives Multiplying this by Z and dropping a factor m throughout we obtain which can be rearranged as where T is also a conserved quantity . |
| 7 | Whilst it is theoretically true at the time of writing that local authorities , through the rates , currently have a source of finance independent of central government , finance which can be spent on any object within their statutory jurisdiction , this is not the whole story . |
| 8 | Plotters are generally available with either serial ( RS232 ) or parallel ( Centronics or IEEE 488 ) interface which can be connected to the port normally used by a printer . |
| 9 | The speaker views the phenomenon as an event or state which can be explained in terms of another , temporally prior , event or state . |
| 10 | These release nitrogen into the soil as they rot which can be used by the next crop . |
| 11 | Work which can be used as a stepping stone to another career . |
| 12 | People need time to think through what the changes will mean for them , time to retrain , time to deal with the process of bereavement ( which this is ) , time to work out what skills they have which can be transferred to alternative jobs , time to seek other opportunities , time to reconcile the family to the situation . |
| 13 | Summing the three contributions gives the total inflow , and so we have which can be rearranged to become that is , . |
| 14 | Also we have which can be used to replace in the previous equation : Multiplying both sides by sin 3 i gives which is a quantity known to astronomers as the mass function . |