Example sentences of "that can [be] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything he writes is Jewish in the sense that everything he writes is conscious of the Jewish faith , if that can be said without relinquishing the thought that there are such persons as unbelieving Jews . |
| 2 | The best that can be said of his success on that occasion is that it postponed the period of uncertainty that a split in the party would bring . |
| 3 | In truth , all that can be said is that , in both the Free Presbyterian Church and in the UPV , there were a small number of people ( none of whom were figures of any stature in the Church ) who were prepared to abet others in the commission of crimes to further the aims which the vast majority of people in the Church and UPV wished to see promoted by less violent means . |
| 4 | The decor was inclusive in the rent and all that can be said was that the decor was expensive . |
| 5 | All that can be said of the experiment at CERN is what the physicists there did say . |
| 6 | There is much that can be said about the advantages of such a strategy , which is flexible and which can penetrate secular buildings with the salt of the gospel touching the lives of many who otherwise have no contact with the church . |
| 7 | All that can be said is that Labour has lost elections in the past when the press was more favourable than it now is . |
| 8 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If ideology is the science of ideas , of broad metaphysical or abstract speculation , then the best that can be said here is that Odilon Redon pursued a private visionary agenda . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The best that can be said about marriage laws is that some of the variation may be explained along the lines proposed here . |
| 13 | The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe . |
| 14 | Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent . |
| 15 | The best that can be said for Manne 's argument is that as the risks of insider dealing increase , ‘ not trading ’ trading may become more popular . |
| 16 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 17 | So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There seems to be little that can be said about things which are familiar to writer and reader alike . |
| 20 | The most that can be said is that they must have selectional restrictions which are satisfied by the selectee . |
| 21 | The most that can be said is that S.I.B . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | One is fast relative to the other , or slow relative to the other — and that 's all that can be said . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | The best that can be said is that to appeal to such a wide diversity of patrons he clearly possessed some very rare talent indeed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
| 28 | We now have some sketch of the scope of meaning that is referred to in the definition , namely all that can be said to have been communicated , in Grice 's sense , by the use of a linguistic token in a context . |
| 29 | I think that all that can be said , has been said Chairman and I think that prudence is the leadership today . . |
| 30 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |