Example sentences of "something that can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while skill is something that can be trained other aspects of success may be pre-determined . |
| 2 | On the credit side , it should be said that there is now an acute awareness in the Soviet Union and the East European countries that pollution is a social and political issue and not just something that can be categorized vaguely as an environmental problem and shoved to the debit side of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 3 | It is [ he added , engagingly ] quite clear to me that an organisation … of this character is not something that can be handled by the ordinary … machinery or either the British Civil service or the British military machine . |
| 4 | In addition , it is not something that can be delegated and employees can not escape their responsibility by delegation . |
| 5 | This must mean , in terms of the figure , an increase in the number of a and b elements activated by the stimuli , something that can be represented diagrammatically in more than one way . |
| 6 | Er not to costume them you understand but simply because a cloak is something that can be worn by a man or a woman and can be worn over whatever you have on . |
| 7 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 8 | As we have witnessed in the preceding chapter , the ideological contest for control of the past is largely predicated on the basis of the Renaissance being a phenomenon , something that can be discovered and controlled by accurate descriptions of what it is . |
| 9 | ‘ Talent is a rare thing , not as universal as people seem to think — creativity is not something that can be taught , ’ she says . |
| 10 | And that 's something that can be debated through local plan inquiries . |
| 11 | That is something that can be argued over in specific instances . |
| 12 | You can also ask for the patient 's meal to be cut up in the kitchen ready to eat , although this is something that can be done when you order the meal . |
| 13 | It 's not something that can be done or reproduced very easily by people without expertise . |
| 14 | And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text . |
| 15 | Freedom is not something that can be asserted in opposition to law ; it is the residue of conduct permitted in the sense that no statute or common-law rule prohibits it . |
| 16 | where keyname is something that can be altered in Windows , and the value is the value to which it is set . |
| 17 | All members of the obstetric and midwifery staff should speak the same language and use the same method of classification — something that can be achieved only by regular meetings on cardiotocography . |
| 18 | Whether it will prove a worthwhile exercise is also not something that can be answered with a definitive yea or nay , but the potential is definitely there from a design with an unusually bold and coherent presentation , and which lacks many of the subtle compressions and colourations of big box speakers . |
| 19 | What binds all these discordant currents into something that can be called a community ? |
| 20 | I do not believe that the pursuit of happiness is a possibility : happiness is not something that can be chased and captured . |
| 21 | You can tell , Mr Millet , it 's not something that can be hidden . |
| 22 | something that can be addressed wi with a few cable ties , cos sometimes tying the cables together make a more of a danger than |
| 23 | Similarly , though there are inevitably problems and exceptions , we continue to treat the tone-unit as something that can be described , defined and recognised . |
| 24 | All this may sound obvious and low key : something that can be left to local people and needs no special emphasis in the introduction of major change . |
| 25 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not something that can be measured in time . |
| 27 | It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted . |
| 28 | Otherness is not so much something to be frightened of , a threat to the stability of the self , as something that can be added to or incorporated into the already existing . |
| 29 | When Nietzsche is quoted directly as arguing that " tropes are not something that can be added or subtracted from language at will ; they are its truest nature " , de Man 's paraphrase seems innocuous : The mode of paraphrase frees de Man from the obligation of theoretical presence in his discourse while still allowing him to translate Nietzsche 's text into the terms of his own problematic . |
| 30 | And it 's something that can be avoided so easily . |