Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] can [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be personalities rather than policies , however , which determine how successfully that can be made to work . |
| 2 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 3 | The most that can be achieved by the summit is to keep the Community from toppling over the edge . |
| 4 | The most that can be achieved by such searches is to reveal cases where title is suspect and allow the necessary action to be taken . |
| 5 | The most that can be said is that a good case can be made out for so doing ; law-abiding spectators would probably be sympathetic , depending upon the outcome . |
| 6 | The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 8 | The most that can be said is that they must have selectional restrictions which are satisfied by the selectee . |
| 9 | The most that can be said is that S.I.B . |
| 10 | The most that can be said is that the majority of individuals said to be non-right handed still show left hemisphere language representation ( Annett , Hudson , and Turner , 1974 ; Fleminger and Bunce , 1975 ; Clyma , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | Whether this justifies the conclusion of Esther Moir that " The most that can be said is that on and off the bench , the Justices interposed between the parish overseer and his helpless victim " is uncertain . |
| 12 | The most that can be claimed for it is that it is ingenious . |
| 13 | A characteristic feature of the placebo effect is that it does not last all that long : it is usually only a matter of weeks , and two to six months is about the most that can be expected : If a patient responds to a new treatment and is still well after a year , it is unlikely to be a placebo effect . |
| 14 | In the English appellate courts it may be true to say that change that can be based on reasoning by analogy and the evolutionary development of legal rules is the most that can be expected , and that major changes of direction require legislation which , to overcome the bias of judges in favour of the status quo , must be unequivocally expressed . |
| 15 | If a bureau has only two interview rooms then four volunteers are the most that can be accommodated in the advisory role : two interviewing , one taking telephone enquiries and the fourth following up cases in the general office between clients . |
| 16 | Even where we have overcome difficulties of technology and resources , as , for example , in producing multi-media stacks using Apple 's HyperCard ( or SuperCard ) , there is market resistance to purchasing what might otherwise come as public domain or ‘ shareware ’ and little that can be done to prevent illegal copying and resulting saturation of a limited market before costs are recovered . |
| 17 | There is , one must conclude , little that can be done . |
| 18 | This paper has shown just how successfully this can be done : we have transformed every finite program to a normal form to which it usually bears no syntactic or structural resemblance . |
| 19 | Site manager Ian Bruce agrees , ‘ We are achieving increased output and improved effiency , and there is still much that can be done to keep the business profitable . ’ |
| 20 | I think perhaps that can be thrown out because otherwise it 's going to scratch that that nice tin . |
| 21 | They will have done all that can be done to unearth the truth . |
| 22 | Applying Pythagorus ' theorem to figure 7.3(b) shows that and subtracting these equations gives in which all but have been measured so that can be calculated readily . |
| 23 | But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time . |
| 24 | Even hair which is naturally curly can be transformed because rollers can help to make the existing curls more crisp and structured . |
| 25 | If only some can be verified , the non-observation statement will be no more than weakly verifiable . |
| 26 | Perhaps this can be made clearer by taking the specific example of somebody who has an anxiety attack whilst shopping in a supermarket . |
| 27 | Perhaps this can be seen as a statement of a general condition that obtains for all workers . |
| 28 | So this can be applied everywhere . |
| 29 | Many knitters who are familiar with the band program will probably agree that it is the most useful program ever published , as so much can be done with it ! |
| 30 | ‘ But when the time comes , only so much can be done by discussion . |