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

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1 ‘ There is nothing that can not be coped with by the co-operation of captains and the vigilance of the umpires .
2 For here there appears to be nothing that can not be transfused utterly with spirit , with high feeling , with fierce clean passion .
3 On it I shall argue that there is nothing that can not be understood , that there is nothing that can not be explained , and that everything is extraordinarily simple A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation .
4 On it I shall argue that there is nothing that can not be understood , that there is nothing that can not be explained , and that everything is extraordinarily simple A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation .
5 There is , it seems , nothing that can not be done on a croquet lawn that can be done on a golf fairway .
6 Thus , given the way the word " I " is used , there is no startlingly new information to be derived from a person 's statement " I actually exist " If " Socrates is eating an apple " is true , then clearly there is nothing that can usefully be added to this statement by saying that the apple Socrates is eating is not fictional .
7 They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver .
8 The difficulty with defining God is that the theist is perfectly entitled to claim that ‘ God ’ refers to something that can not be known in the way that other things are known .
9 The right book becomes something passionately possessed ( ‘ mine ! ’ ) , something that can not be read too often , the text being treated with an almost academic concern for accuracy .
10 It is something that can not be explained away .
11 This is something that can not be taken for granted , as with the best will in the World , even the most expert goldfish keeper will suffer equipment failures etc. in his or her absence which can , during hot weather for example , lead to loss of fish or triggering off disease .
12 I do not mean , of course , that it was something that can not be explained yet , but rather that it was something of which no explanation can conceivably be found .
13 This is something that can not be left to the dub because we will see the wind from the propellers buffeting the actors .
14 This allows a large number of variations in style to be incorporated into a single page , something that can not be achieved with digitised fonts as these , by definition , are of a fixed size and style .
15 The discovery that varied aspects of a writer 's style point towards a common literary purpose is something that can only be demonstrated through the details of stylistic analysis .
16 So I think that there 's , I welcome , you know , the Social Chapter on that basis , but it does clearly say , and prescribe , er something that can only be universally applied , and if there are , there is need , there is need , er there is scope for that , with delegation through particular industries , particular circumstances .
17 One that can easily be forced is the detection of switched off illumination ( or merely low light ) and this works reliably .
18 The task of child protection is , in a sense , the other side of the coin and one that can not be made easy for social workers , despite the sharper and hopefully more effective legal tools they will now have for the job .
19 Think of a desired alternative action — one that can not be performed at the same time as the ‘ problem ’ behaviour ( see page 55 ) .
20 Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case .
21 The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word .
22 The relationship between k and r is one that can not be guaranteed to hold when we allow for the heterogeneity of capital , as the debate on ‘ 'reswitching ’ has brought out ( see for example Bliss , 1975 , and Harcourt , 1972 ) .
23 It is , like most of the concepts in social science , a contested , relatively vague one that can only be made less vague , of greater theoretical relevance through systematic empirical exploration .
24 ‘ I remember when I first set eyes on you at that cocktail party and I thought , In spite of her dark flowing hair and her Mediterranean beauty she has a bite about her that can only be British .
25 There is a very real danger that cleaning stores may become general junk rooms providing a home for everything and anything that can not be stored easily .
26 As with anything that can not be easily quantified , it is difficult to determine the point where the benefits of additional information exceed the costs .
27 Anything that can not be measured does not exist .
28 To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal .
29 I always accept any little presents from clients , especially if it 's cash , or anything that can easily be changed into cash .
30 This explains why women place a high priority on the right words , soft music , anything that can generally be attributed to romance .
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