Example sentences of "all that can be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Form thus becomes a condition of non-form and , however stable it may seem , all that can be observed in our universe is the existential process of change from one state to another . |
| 2 | All that can be achieved without necessarily retaining the existing office of the Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 3 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 4 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 5 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 6 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |
| 7 | In 1922 , Collins promised on behalf of the Labour Party that ‘ all that can be done under the Maternity and Child Welfare Acts in the way of helping necessitous , and expectant and nursing mothers , and caring for young children would have our support ’ ( Election leaflet 1922 ) . |
| 8 | Surely one does not spend one 's life as a biblical scholar reinterpreting the tradition because that is all that can be done in view of the fact that , like it or not , we live within this trajectory ? |
| 9 | But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there . |
| 10 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 11 | The happy medium mean between the extremes of hot and cold furnishes to the chaste and sober eye all that can be wished for . ’ |
| 12 | All that can be surmised of the apparently endless demand for Cooper 's paintings beyond an obvious urban desire for a monolithic , idyllically produced rural peace , is that his reception gives evidence of a constant market , particularly an urban market , for well produced animal painting . |
| 13 | As to which is the more stringent obligation in a situation in which more than one applies , that is for intuitive assessment in the light of all that can be known about the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 14 | Many couples find a good way to avoid impulsive spending is to agree on a limit of , say £5 or £10 as all that can be spent without consulting the other partner . |