Example sentences of "[that] can be do " in BNC.

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1 So from the point of view of the consumer , there are few tests that can be done prior to purchase , to ascertain how well a product will perform when fitted into the car .
2 But Professor Alan Budd , chief economic adviser to Barclays Bank , said of the Government 's predicament : ‘ In the short run there is nothing that can be done .
3 But raised blood pressure is an early warning sign and is one of the simplest and cheapest checks that can be done .
4 Few primary schools are likely to match the example of Meadowfield Comprehensive School in Sheffield that raised £80,000 by accommodating conferences for the City 's Area Health Authority and its Training and Enterprise Council but it 's an example of the sort of thing that can be done with imagination and energy .
5 You can also ask for the patient 's meal to be cut up in the kitchen ready to eat , although this is something that can be done when you order the meal .
6 Then there 's a great amount that can be done in the interfaces with the other players in the information industry .
7 Everything that can be done in preparation for the survey should therefore be done ; there is precious little that can be done afterwards without distorting the accuracy of the survey .
8 Everything that can be done in preparation for the survey should therefore be done ; there is precious little that can be done afterwards without distorting the accuracy of the survey .
9 We are all aware of the damage that can be done by threatening to ‘ call a policeman ’ or ‘ fetch the bogeyman ’ , but many more casual phrases — never intended as a threat — can do just as much harm .
10 In this situation anything that can be done to halt the destruction of the forests and to maintain the population of orang-utans in the wild must be attempted .
11 Nevertheless , there are certain things that can be done .
12 These are just a few of the things that can be done with a relatively crude form of recording of four basic parameters on a time base .
13 The useful research that can be done requires neither a large station nor a permanent manned presence .
14 Everything that can be done to stop that has to be done .
15 And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done .
16 If other people have had other experiences , if if they share erm , er Nelly 's er belief there that there is nothing that can be done about it ? 's the number to dial and we 'll have some more calls in a moment .
17 ‘ There 's still a lot that can be done with that before we get to having to establish what would effectively be private sector mini-Audit Commissions ’ , said .
18 I agree with the hon. Gentleman that every conceivable thing that can be done should be done to ensure that the applicant — the hon. Gentleman was right to say that he may be old and slightly confused — is assisted in filling out the forms .
19 Madeline , is there anything that can be done ?
20 With a study designed the way this one was there is very little that can be done to decide whether this relatively uninteresting possibility is the major factor determining the results , the studies in the remainder of this thesis are , however , designed to address this problem .
21 I think any feminist movement in Britain should take on board the fact that Ireland is a colony and the fact that there is a lot of denial that goes on , people pretending it is n't happening , and saying there 's nothing that can be done .
22 This is the Court of Chancery : which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man 's acquaintance ; which gives to monied might , the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , courage , hope : so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning , " Suffer any wrong that can be done you , rather than come here " .
23 The amount of work that can be done under a Green Form is strictly limited by the Legal Aid Board and so very little work can be done until Legal Aid is granted .
24 From the drafter 's point of view there is clearly nothing that can be done to save a clause rendered ineffective by the Act ; however , where a clause is subject to a test of reasonableness ( which will be more common in relation to clauses included in standard terms ) the drafter should try to ensure that the clause can satisfy the test .
25 It 's not something that can be done or reproduced very easily by people without expertise .
26 He says the otters that have swallowed a lot of oil may be so ill there 's nothing that can be done .
27 It 's probably the best training that can be done .
28 ‘ All the good people here must think again about everything that can be done to improve the area . ’
29 There is , it seems , nothing that can not be done on a croquet lawn that can be done on a golf fairway .
30 There is so much of good that can be done if we seize the opportunities which a modern world makes available .
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