Example sentences of "to what can [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exercise of decomposing the system models will aid this process , progressively bringing the systems ideas closer to what can be observed in practice ; imaginative use of unsophisticated computer software can also help , particularly where the level of detail makes manual analysis impracticable ; simple matrices similar to those employed to good effect in many of the studies described in this book can also be of benefit ; not forgetting , of course , the significant value of discussing ideas with experienced staff from the organisation being studied . |
| 2 | A further factor tempering government enthusiasm for LDDC relates to what can be called the ‘ Prince Charles ’ Factor . |
| 3 | Trevor Wishart ( 1977 ) , for example , stresses the abstracting , analytic properties of notation , which reduce the infinity of sound to a small number of discrete , systematically permutational elements , limit our very perception and conception of music to what can be written down and rationally described , and result in an idealist account of the relationship between the ‘ real ’ music in the score and the performance — an inevitably less than perfect representation . |
| 4 | In improvising , a player can often create spontaneously something much superior to what can be written down with the crude approximation of notation . |
| 5 | All these options , it should be noted , remain within the basic framework of the categorial schema of objects and attributes , and this inevitably sets limits to what can be achieved by the respective philosophies of mind " . |
| 6 | Once the basic information is captured in electronic form there is technically no limit to what can be achieved with it . |
| 7 | The extent to which cooperation and , indeed , common policies exist among Nato members is testimony to what can be achieved by sovereign states acting together in amity . |
| 8 | But the approach eschews vague yet important notions of fairness and integrity , and makes them subservient to what can be criticized as a very narrow view of cost . |
| 9 | Whereas the descriptions of the opening chapter are confined to what can be seen from within his shack , visual perspectives increase in variety and number when he ventures out of doors . |
| 10 | The annual models provide good publicity at the Motor Show , but surely there is a limit to what can be done to a car that has to be instantly recognisable by its shape ? |
| 11 | There 's a limit to what can be done on those little caravan stoves they provide us with . ’ |
| 12 | We can pull out of the Common Market and out of NATO , but there are practical limits as to what can be done from within British politics to overcome the external constraints on the development of public policy in Britain since we are part of the world economy . |
| 13 | ‘ You have a very narrow range of ideas as to what can be done with Pickerage in the bog . |
| 14 | British Rail is doing all in its power to protect its property from acts of vandalism , but , given the many thousands of miles of infrastructure , there are inevitably limits to what can be done by British Rail alone . |
| 15 | Will you advise us as to what can be done ? |
| 16 | There is a limit , therefore , to what can be done in that respect . |
| 17 | This matter is of the greatest concern to my constituents , many of whom are at their wits ' end as to what can be done to halt the murderous menace of the theft and racing of cars in residential city streets . |
| 18 | As long as we accept that there is a limit to what can be done and that in no way 's detracted from fire station . |
| 19 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 20 | We shall be drawing our examples from the professional knowledge , not only of teachers , but of media specialists and librarians , because they have much to suggest to us , and because their contributions within schools and without are important to what can be attempted and achieved . |
| 21 | Both of these veteran airliners gave a spritely performance despite their age , proving that there are no bounds to what can be preserved in flying condition in the USA . |
| 22 | However , where technology is concerned , the nature , of things out there , external to man , sets limits to what can be considered normal and correct . |
| 23 | Many teachers argue that the more important things that they are concerned with , the ‘ something more ’ , are qualities that can not be measured by tests of competence ; if teaching is geared to what can be measured , objectives in other words , then these important qualities will be omitted and both the teaching and students will be the poorer . |
| 24 | The austerity of the positivist programme may at first sight seem highly scientific , with its rigid adherence to what can be measured and its banishing of all that is not the immediate fruit of experience . |
| 25 | Collie then turns to what can be identified as the second area of instability within the new English : its claims to inculcate a sense of social responsibility . |
| 26 | The decision in Housecroft v Burnett [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 332 provides very clear and comprehensive guidance as to what can be claimed in cases of serious injury . |
| 27 | Debate has been fierce between Liberal and Labour historians as to what can be proved from the by-elections of 1911–14 about the relative strength of the two Progressive parties ; it is an indecisive argument in its very nature because of the confused pattern of results and the lack of any truly comparable figures for 1910 or 1906 . |