Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most that can be achieved by the summit is to keep the Community from toppling over the edge . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The most that can be said is that they must have selectional restrictions which are satisfied by the selectee . |
| 7 | The most that can be said is that S.I.B . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | There are numerous cloughs worth exploring in the Dark Peak , but some of the most impressive can be linked by a demanding outing starting from Greenfield on the west of Black Hill , taking in major cloughs on Bleaklow and Kinder before finally scrambling down the head of the Grindsbrook above Edale . |
| 16 | Some way of ordering the list of allowable strings ( or phrases ) was needed , so that the most likely can be displayed as output from the recognition and post-processing system , with the other candidates available to be displayed if necessary . |
| 17 | We need periodically to consider whether existing methods are the best that can be devised for dealing with crime in the context of society as it is at a given time . |
| 18 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But ‘ not bad ’ is about the best that can be said for it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The best that can be said about marriage laws is that some of the variation may be explained along the lines proposed here . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | The best that can be hoped is that the Senate and the House will agree on amendments to the law which will remove the gimmicks and inject more discipline into the process . |
| 28 | This is the best that can be hoped for , even if it is a long way from a fully satisfying life . |
| 29 | The best that can be hoped for , on their behalf , is that human beings are kindly disposed towards them . |
| 30 | Secondly , issues of social policy are peculiarly sensitive and dependent on domestic policy and prevailing social conditions , so that even within the European Community the best that can be hoped for is a set of minimum standards . |