Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As our work has sometimes been interpreted as conflicting with that of Labov , it should be noted here that the above characterization of the speech community is fundamentally of the same type as his and can be seen as derivative from his insights . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He says the otters that have swallowed a lot of oil may be so ill there 's nothing that can be done . |
| 7 | She said a real man is someone who knows what he 's about , who knows himself and can be relaxed about himself , and I think the same could be said about the ideal guest . |
| 8 | Usually the blockage will be in the trap of the WC itself and can be removed by plunging ( page 75 ) . |
| 9 | The ground from a golfer 's point of view is everything that can be desired and when finished will provide a first rate course , whose sporting nature will certainly not detract from its attractiveness . |
| 10 | Those in the bottom right-hand group should probably be got rid of by withdrawing all investment and selling everything that can be made . |
| 11 | Drawings of sections usually portray everything that can be seen , including the boundaries between layers , because this information may provide clues to the processes by which the layers have been deposited . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Everything that can be done to stop that has to be done . |
| 14 | ‘ All the good people here must think again about everything that can be done to improve the area . ’ |
| 15 | Doubt everything that can be doubted is the aim of the exercise . |
| 16 | Even like that , hopelessly drunk and quite tired out , there was about him an appealing look of promise , of everything that can be meant by friendship . |
| 17 | However , while skill is something that can be trained other aspects of success may be pre-determined . |
| 18 | On the credit side , it should be said that there is now an acute awareness in the Soviet Union and the East European countries that pollution is a social and political issue and not just something that can be categorized vaguely as an environmental problem and shoved to the debit side of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 19 | It is [ he added , engagingly ] quite clear to me that an organisation … of this character is not something that can be handled by the ordinary … machinery or either the British Civil service or the British military machine . |
| 20 | In addition , it is not something that can be delegated and employees can not escape their responsibility by delegation . |
| 21 | This must mean , in terms of the figure , an increase in the number of a and b elements activated by the stimuli , something that can be represented diagrammatically in more than one way . |
| 22 | Er not to costume them you understand but simply because a cloak is something that can be worn by a man or a woman and can be worn over whatever you have on . |
| 23 | The preceding sentence , " They are not at fault ; they " seem to have been born that way " is itself an honest acceptance that addictive disease is stronger in some people than in others and that the acceptance of defeat and the wish " to go to any lengths " to get into recovery is ultimately a personal decision for each sufferer and not something that can be imposed by anyone else . |
| 24 | As we have witnessed in the preceding chapter , the ideological contest for control of the past is largely predicated on the basis of the Renaissance being a phenomenon , something that can be discovered and controlled by accurate descriptions of what it is . |
| 25 | ‘ Talent is a rare thing , not as universal as people seem to think — creativity is not something that can be taught , ’ she says . |
| 26 | And that 's something that can be debated through local plan inquiries . |
| 27 | That is something that can be argued over in specific instances . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It 's not something that can be done or reproduced very easily by people without expertise . |
| 30 | And that is why you have to ensure that whatever elements you put in initial-clause position in your target text or in a given part of your target text add up to something that can be understood as a method of development and that can provide a point of orientation for that part of the text . |