Example sentences of "[adj] that can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | The World Bank estimated in 1970 that in cities such as Bogota in Columbia , Mexico City , Madras and Ahmadabad in India , and Nairobi in Kenya , between a half and two-thirds of the households could not afford even a house of £300–£1500 — the cheapest that can be built with modern materials such as cement and fired bricks . |
| 3 | There may be some that can be combined to save money . |
| 4 | Cistus ( rock rose ) , scented-leaved pelargoniums ( geraniums ) and the curry plant ( Helichrysum angustifolium ) are a few that can be combined to provide the mixture of aromas reminiscent of holidays in southern Europe . |
| 5 | This fresco is mirrored by another that can be seen from Via Falcone at the back of the church . |
| 6 | What is more , there is very little that can be called oceanic crust or trench-filling sediment ( flysch , olistostromes , etc. ) within the Hercynian massifs of Europe . |
| 7 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is , surprisingly perhaps , very little that can be added to Professor Hoskins ' account of industrial landscapes . |
| 11 | A database of this size is nearly fifty times greater than the largest that can be stored in a chip-based handheld . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's so much that can be achieved , ’ he says . |
| 13 | My only hesitation when praising this excellent meat is that I have found few who like to eat cold lamb , and while curried leftovers are an option , I suggest buying a joint that can be eaten at one sitting . |
| 14 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 15 | However , the division into high and low heads as general types is probably the most basic that can be made , and it would be pointless to set up a more elaborate system to represent differences if these differences were not recognised by most English speakers . |
| 16 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 17 | The worst that can be said of the new minister is that he " undoubtedly possessed a definite political programme , but he was too cautious and too indecisive to carry it out " . |
| 18 | However , if a ‘ crash ’ occurs the worst that can be expected is a rebuke from the instructor . |
| 19 | There is so much of good that can be done if we seize the opportunities which a modern world makes available . |
| 20 | The bowling department remains England 's main problem area , despite the batting failures , and there is not much good that can be said about the bowlers . |
| 21 | If there is more than one type of eligible cash market good that can be delivered against the contract , then the short will choose the one that is cheapest to deliver . |
| 22 | The inescapable and undeniable fact , among many that can be remembered , was his insistence and overriding concern for the highest standards of art and craft work at all levels in the West Riding . |
| 23 | Electron storage rings can easily produce visible outputs because of their high energies ( typically several hundred MeV ) , but they are weakened by the very low peak current that can be achieved , which significantly lowers their gain . |
| 24 | The first is that a word is typically the smallest element of a sentence which has positional mobility — that is , the smallest that can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence ( ignoring any semantic effects ) : |
| 25 | Obviously the size of the negative that can be overcome by a given positive decreases as κ/; κ C decreases . |
| 26 | This refers to disorder on a widespread scale , and the officer should take into account not merely his own resources , but those that can be made available to him through the use of the mutual aid provisions of the Police Act 1964 . |
| 27 | According to the logical positivists , the only permissible scientific concepts are those that can be tied directly to measurement . |
| 28 | The first step in problem.solving is to form come idea ( it can not be definite ) as to the factors that really are involved and those that can be ignored . |
| 29 | Benefits should be analysed at two levels : those benefits which can be obtained by purchase of a particular type of product ; and those that can be obtained by purchasing that product from a particular supplier . |
| 30 | Current assets are those that can be turned into cash at short notice , in addition to cash in hand or at the bank . |