Example sentences of "which can be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 From a more conventional approach which encompasses land use , maps of soil erosion , and the designation of technically feasible conservation measures which can be accepted within the constraints operating upon land-users — a difficult enough task in itself — an expansion is suggested to the present programme which seems to involve the political economy of the whole world in every instance of soil erosion .
2 It is an additional requirement of the religion , that it shall be in some logical form which can be accepted by all kinds of people , from the academically minded who need to be satisfied with its innate sound reasoning , to those who are prepared to let faith take over where the tedium of logical study is not wanted or not within their individual capacities to undertake .
3 The task is to extract that wisdom from its vast and varied hiding places , and to integrate it into a much simpler rationalised philosophy , which can be accepted by all .
4 What is left , it is claimed , will be self-evident truths which can be accepted as such by all open minds .
5 Only such a theory can generate rules which can be accepted as having the sort of ethical authority that is required for international law to be taken seriously as the ultimate arbiter of international relations .
6 What it does demand is a policy based on staffroom agreement which can be accepted by teachers and parents as being appropriate to meeting the needs of the children which the school is there to serve .
7 There is only one civil destruction which can be accepted with certainty , and that is the effect of the sacking of Camulodunum ( Hull , 1958 , 152 — 156 , 198 — 202 ; Dunnett , 1967 , 48 — 54 ; 1971 , 18–23 and probably 54–56 ) , London ( Marsden , 1974 ) and Verulamium ( Frere , 1972 , period I ) in AD 60 , and already useful collections of pottery have been recovered from two of these .
8 The lower value limit of goods which can be accepted for sale has been set fairly high — it is rumoured to be £10,000 for the Jewellery Department .
9 Once the source text is understood , the translator then has to tackle the task of producing a target version which can be accepted as a text in its own right .
10 The ubiquitous shellsuit will , however , retain its popularity as a leisure garment , although buyers will be opting for designs in fabrics with a softer handle , such as that achieved by special finishes such as acid , stone or garment washing , which can be applied to both woven and knitted cloths .
11 Recording contracts can be particularly complicated due to the different royalty rates and ‘ packaging deductions ’ which can be applied to different types of record , and to where it is sold , when it is sold , and in which cover it is presented .
12 West-Burnham in chapter 6 outlines an analysis which can be applied to a wide range of situations from the individual project to a whole school programme .
13 It would be wrong , however , to dismiss completely advances in productivity-enhancing research which can be applied to steep-sloped and marginal areas .
14 A ‘ top-down ’ comment by Holdgate ( 1982 ) also makes a plea for relevant local research which can be applied and its resulting policies replicated .
15 How can you frame a policy which can be applied to blatant perverts at one end of the spectrum , and genuinely romantic liaisons between teachers and mature students at the other ?
16 Judgement can never be excluded from the weeding process , but in recent years practitioners and researchers have sought a more reliable weeding criterion which can be applied scientifically to produce consistent results .
17 If a patient is incontinent , there are also special creams which can be applied to form a protective barrier on the skin .
18 Meanwhile , here are two remarks by Wordsworth which can be applied to Alice Fell as well as to the whole problem :
19 But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern .
20 Not only is this episode interesting in itself , but it also contains important lessons which can be applied to similar attempts at implementing Marxism within a democratic framework .
21 I have developed a simple analytic treatment which can be applied to the main areas of electronic publishing .
22 On the other hand it does not provide remedies for production problems which can be applied as standard recipes or procedures .
23 Douglas stresses the common features of groupwork and has developed a useful , straightforward approach which can be applied to all groups and groupwork .
24 Walton stresses that there is no simple concept or criterion of the child 's best interests which can be applied in a crude rule-of-thumb way , and no group or individual which has sole authority to assume that generally it has the best conception of the child 's interests .
25 There seems to me to have been a growing wish to find this ‘ philosopher 's stone ’ , a universal system which can be applied to everything , everywhere .
26 Equally we have found some success in moving into areas where , for example , we bring either a customer base , or a skill or research base which can be applied to another business .
27 By studying numerous manuscripts , textual critics have been able to work out a set of principles which can be applied to many different sorts of document .
28 The boolean functions which can be applied to a single bit position can then be extended to what are called logical operations on the whole word .
29 " Educational technology " in practice means one of three things : The equipment and software of the audio-visual and computing industry which can be applied in education .
30 There are , though , three or four fundamental criteria for judging advertisements which can be applied more or less universally .
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