Example sentences of "[Wh det] it can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the appeal is doubtless the ease with which it can be applied with great effect . |
| 2 | And you can see the , you can see the way in which it can be applied , if we know , erm , that there are erm , too many people of a certain age , and too few jobs , then maybe we can do something about it . |
| 3 | By a whole series of moves , which were discussed in detail in Part II , the Government has made this form of welfare far less attractive — both in the level of payment , and the terms under which it can be obtained . |
| 4 | The effect , however , turned out to be a somewhat elusive one in subsequent research , until the conditions under which it can be obtained were elucidated by Johnston and McClelland ( 1973 ) . |
| 5 | The offer must be in writing , must state a Period of not less than 21 days within which it can be accepted and withdrawal of the offer before the end of the stated period is forbidden . |
| 6 | The most effective way of working is to delegate work down to the lowest competent level at which it can be handled . |
| 7 | Thus the sense of ‘ good ’ which is fundamental for ethics is that in which it can be expanded to ‘ good in itself ’ . |
| 8 | The grammar of English is carried over into the signing and presumably evaluation of the adequacy of BSL is based on the ease with which it can be fitted to this English format . |
| 9 | If first used before 1 September 1978 it must also be equipped with pedals by which it can be propelled . |
| 10 | In these the water flow is from end to end or from middle to side , respectively , the clear water leaving by weirs or troughs , and the sludge on the bottom being removed by mechanical scraping gear that carries it to a sump from which it can be pumped away . |
| 11 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 12 | ‘ A European ’ , Temple wrote , ‘ can not exert a personal influence on the characters of more than one hundred to two hundred natives ’ ; but if he concentrated on ‘ guiding and controlling the native leaders ’ , then his influence would be ‘ magnified by a natural process a thousand fold ’ and the result would be that : ‘ The power thus exerted is infinitely greater in scope than any power or influence which it can be hoped that he will exert under the … system of Direct Rule . ’ |
| 13 | The only words from which it can be contended that it is to be implied are the words , ‘ I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl . |
| 14 | For the bulk of this century a favoured organism for geneticists to study , because of the ease with which it can be maintained , its rapid breeding cycle and the possibility of studying populations of many thousands , has been the tiny fruit fly ( sometimes called vinegar fly ) , Drosophila melanogaster , which gathers like specks of coaldust , seemingly magnetically attracted to over-ripe fruit . |
| 15 | Ask about ways in which it can be made better . |
| 16 | The contents of the racist pathology and the material circumstances to which it can be made to correspond are thus left untouched . |
| 17 | My Lords , the , the point made by the Noble Lord is that it is an important one erm it is important that teachers do feel comfortable with this subject and to that end the erm grant for education support and training is making money available and religious education has been added to the number of subjects for which it can be made available to help with er improving specialisms in schools , but also pr improving co-ordination for religious education in schools . |
| 18 | The liquidity of an asset is the ease with which it can be converted into cash without loss . |
| 19 | The attraction of doing a sketch like this is the speed at which it can be achieved . |
| 20 | I reproduce one model procedure which sets out a management framework within which it can be achieved . |
| 21 | Now that we have established the principles of inheritance , and the methods by which it can be studied in complex cases , let us see how well they apply to behaviour . |
| 22 | This may have a bearing on the ease with which it can be trained . |
| 23 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 24 | In fact there is no established generalization about our concepts , or our fundamental concepts , on which it can be based . |
| 25 | Thus the hypothesis provides a meaning to primitive ‘ goodness ’ and also suggests the period during which it can be said to have originated . |
| 26 | Or , to put it in another way , there must be at least two non-synonymous descriptive phrases of which it can be said both that they are co-extensive in respect of the given non-meaning and characterise this non-meaning in an essential way . |
| 27 | There is no way in which it can be said that such-and-such an injury is worth so much in terms of money . |
| 28 | This is the recognition of faith , and there is no way in which it can be demonstrated to be valid by appeal to merely historical argument about Jesus . |
| 29 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 30 | ( c ) It must be remembered that conventions have differing degrees of force and ultimately that force may be dependent on the extent to which the convention is perceived as being politically necessary at any given time and the extent to which it can be seen to reflect current political values . |