Example sentences of "something which can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should try to see space itself as something which can be made as articulate as verbal language . |
| 2 | In particular , it may foster the inventor 's ill-informed optimism that he has something which can be developed and exploited for commercial gain . |
| 3 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 4 | Postscript is recognisable as something which can be written and read by us humans . |
| 5 | We are back with the problem which Eliot had considered in March 1914 when one of his seminar colleagues , Sen Gupta , had read a paper that Eliot had written dealing with the work of Lévy-Bruhl ‘ on primitive race-psychology ’ and the ‘ law of participation ’ , a paper in which it was stated that , ‘ Causality is something which can be explained away but not explained . |
| 6 | They will see the gradual integration of text , graphics and video into a single multimedia approach as something which can be handled within the reskilling tradition which is now being established . |
| 7 | In this important respect , and in common with more formal economic analysis , her study fails to appreciate the need to gain a much fuller understanding of microeconomic behaviour ; something which can be done only through detailed investigation of individual businesses and economic institutions [ Major , 1979 ] . |
| 8 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 9 | You either have it or you do not — talent is certainly not something which can be taught . |
| 10 | Why do human cultures contain something which can be called ‘ religion ’ ? |
| 11 | True relaxation is something which can be learned by anyone — although , like anything worth having , it does take a little practice . |
| 12 | Your notebook is the tool which enables you to take any experience , any observation , any physical sensation and turn it into something which can be shared by others . |
| 13 | His example makes it seem that the circle is not simply a detachable result of , or something which can be considered in isolation from , certain motions , but rather something whose very nature and properties are essentially tied up with its method of production . |
| 14 | Moreover , industrial structure is not something which can be resolved merely by general debate over a general checklist of factors . |
| 15 | A will in my judgment is a document which must at least purport to contain something which can be described as a testamentary disposition . |
| 16 | They see labour as something which can be bought and sold and , for them , that is all there is to it ; when they use that idea of labour they are unaware of and unconcerned with what has caused it . |
| 17 | One of Beto 's constant themes is that classification is something which can be carried out properly only by staff who have both human insight in general and a specific knowledge of the prison system and the background of most of its clients . |
| 18 | This is not something which can be left to governments or industry ; each one of us must be aware of our own actions — what products we use , how we treat the earth and so on . |
| 19 | The need for industrial application shows the practical nature of patent law , which requires that the invention should be something which can be produced or that it relates to some sort of industrial process . |
| 20 | This is n't something which can be forced , you know . |
| 21 | As Roy Hattersley , himself an opponent of the scheme , reminded journalists yesterday , proportional representation would involve a radical change from one form of democracy to another ; it is n't something which can be taken lightly . |
| 22 | Grab any makeshift weapon as the gang approaches — something which can be used as a club or baton is best — and attack at once . |
| 23 | When this first draft has been done the researcher has something which can be worked on . |