Example sentences of "thing that can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think it 's the sort of thing that can be explained unless you can understand it without explanation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 5 | One thing that can be said for this type of control is that you only need a minimum of movement in the pot to switch between crunch and scream . |
| 6 | The one thing that can be said in favour is that it sends vegans and animal rights activists incandescent with rage . |
| 7 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 8 | Chief Superintendent Paul Green of Holborn Police said at the scene last night : ‘ The only thing that can be said about the target is that it was in one of London 's main streets at a very busy time . |
| 9 | The one thing that can be said with certainty about mildew is that it is unpredictable . |
| 10 | One thing that can be said in opposition to the simultaneity idea is that if we persist in thinking precisely of causation , of one thing causing another , as distinct from any related kind of connection , we are inclined to try to substitute successions for simultaneities . |
| 11 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 12 | One thing that can be said about is that he he 's never drab . |
| 13 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 14 | They are always composed : 1 ) of a dissimilar thing that can be exchanged for the thing of which the value is to be determined ; and 2 ) of similar things that can be compared with the thing of which the value is to be determined . |