Example sentences of "[that] could be done " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two things that could be done . |
| 2 | They consulted a doctor who told them that there was very little that could be done for a rheumatic attack . |
| 3 | It seemed there was nothing that could be done . |
| 4 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 5 | Lucille took a last look in the mirror , decided there was nothing that could be done to make herself any more elegant or beautiful , and so picked up her small bag that contained the precious pasteboard ticket . |
| 6 | With such complexity 21 minutes of Cray-YMP time are required per model day , and this restricted the number and length of simulations that could be done . |
| 7 | The report confirmed that house officers spend much of their time on inappropriate tasks — either those that are beyond their competence and for which they can not hope to provide optimum care ( like providing the main source of symptom control to inpatients , the sole medical cover to surgical patients , and explaining complicated procedures to patients and relatives ) and others that could be done just as well by non-medical staff ( like filing reports , taking routine blood samples , and arranging beds ) . |
| 8 | There are two things that could be done relatively easily to ameliorate this situation . |
| 9 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 10 | In medieval times the acre or strip , which was the average day 's ploughing for an ox-team , was sometimes called a jurnalis ( or diurnalis ) in monks ' Latin and journel in French — that is , the amount of ploughing that could be done in one day . |
| 11 | He had n't concentrated on one thing for years now as he had when he 'd started collecting stamps at the age of nine , so careful , so worried , so never leaving anything for a minute that could be done straight away by him . |
| 12 | But I did the whole of Orkney for a while I did everything that could be done . |
| 13 | Oh , there were all kinds if things that could be done to make the visit memorable . |
| 14 | Will he warn the British people of the damage that could be done to them and the danger to their way of life and democracy ? |
| 15 | There is little in this which is peculiar to a solicitors ' partnership dispute but with regard to the last noted remedy the court recognises the great and possibly irreparable harm that could be done by appointing a receiver over a professional firm and may be reluctant to make such an order at the behest of one disaffected partner ( see Floydd v Cheney [ 1970 ] Ch 602 and Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 ) . |
| 16 | He could not see too much that could be done quickly about the criminals who travelled from Wearside and Tyneside to burgle . |
| 17 | It 's , it 's , it 's a thing that could be done in this country |
| 18 | I said I 'm quite sure there must be something that could be done computer-wise |
| 19 | She was clearly mentally disturbed , and the reason that I got in touch with the legal project was to see if there 's anything that could be done by them to start giving her some way of getting in touch , getting to solve her problem . |
| 20 | And if you do pages that could be done in metal , they are more convincing than pages that can not be done in metal . |