Example Sentences

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Even small amounts of ancient DNA would greatly clarify its evolutionary history, but it will require both technological breakthroughs and good fortune to acquire analysable samples from the warm, wet conditions of Liang Bua.

From Nature • Oct. 21, 2014

The vitamines of food, we know, are not strictly analysable, though their presence can be detected.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

By Mr. Max Müller’s system such names are old words, of meanings long ago generally lost by the speakers of each language, but analysable by ‘true scholars’ into their original significance. 

From Modern Mythology by Lang, Andrew

As soon as any body of men have been grouped under a common political name, that name may acquire emotional associations as well as an intellectually analysable meaning.

From Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Wallas, Graham

Of what is analysable, well-known, commonplace, or what we succeed in understanding thoroughly, in attaining or imitating, we do not say that it possesses prestige.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra