Example sentences of "[adv] that [modal v] be do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not the most that could be done to protect the consumer , but the least that the Government thought that they could get away with . |
| 2 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is , one must conclude , little that can be done . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | They will have done all that can be done to unearth the truth . |
| 7 | Clearly , therefore , there is no way in which oxygen can be obtained without any water loss : the best that can be done is to minimize the loss . |
| 8 | The best that can be done , therefore , is to limit the supply of air to the minimum necessary to meet the requirements for oxygen . |
| 9 | This is the best that can be done to depopulate a matrix below its diagonal ; if one could remove infradiagonal elements as well , there would be no problem in finding eigenvalues and vectors of a matrix . |
| 10 | The best that can be done in trying to meet the air quality standards is to persuade each emitter to reduce emissions to meet some emission standard , which will ultimately be based on someone 's judgement of what is ‘ good practice ’ . |
| 11 | When it is thought vital that members or creditors should receive notice , the Act requires them to be given notice by the company ; in relation to the general public the best that can be done is to require publication in newspapers . |
| 12 | Figure 6.3 is about the best that can be done with the lunar data at present . |
| 13 | The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is . |
| 14 | The best that can be done is to convert the uncertainty , which is not quantifiable , into risk , which is . |
| 15 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 16 | It is not very easy to arrange ventilation schemes when the designer has forgotten to do so and often the best that could be done was to arrange to leave the inspection doors open when on the ground . |
| 17 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 18 | The best that could be done was to influence its shape in a way that gave the greatest help to the home market . |
| 19 | The best that could be done was to find a formula which , compatibly with this , gave something to the minority . |
| 20 | On the whole I bore the strictures with courage in the firm belief that what had been done was the best that could be done . |
| 21 | After this shattering denouement there seemed little more that could be done at Bonsmoulins . |
| 22 | The state of the country 's finances does n't allow this Government , or its successor , to wave a magic wand over the housing problem but there is more that could be done . |
| 23 | Bernard Lane , one of the authors of the handbook , said : ‘ The students find that there is much more that can be done in the village than was thought . |
| 24 | The more that can be done to help students to develop their own musical abilities and understanding , and thus see the immense potential of music in worship , the better ’ . |
| 25 | I welcome that , but there is much more that can be done . |
| 26 | Can I just say from a practical point of view , primary classes are fairly static sort of places , you 've got the teacher in the class all day , and if they say well let's have a micro in our classroom today that can be done , whereas a secondary teacher tends to wander round the school with a load of books under one arm and a bag of equipment under the other arm , and they 've also got to carry a micro round or move a micro from one classroom to another — it 's physically difficult , so in practice the primary teachers seem to find it easier to fit in with micros . |
| 27 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 28 | Th erm , the the other one that came up was erm , er and even Anne agreed that er , smoking if you must smoke is is for adults , not for children , now how do you erm , we 've we 've touched on advertising , is there anything else that might be done to dissuade children from smoking ? |
| 29 | Is there anything else that might be done to settle the issue one way or the other ? |
| 30 | There is n't I think anything else that can be done this afternoon . |