Example sentences of "anything that can be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Madeline , is there anything that can be done ? |
| 5 | For the optimists , anything that can be insisted upon will be so basic that it will almost inevitably be mastered incidentally , while the class is actually engaged in pursuits that are far more demanding , interesting , varied and relevant . |
| 6 | As a result Gorbachev is in danger of raising people 's expectations beyond anything that can be achieved . |
| 7 | As for the Hooligans , newspaper cartoonists ' sketches of their dress permutation depicted a more sharply defined style than anything that can be discerned by modern eyes from surviving photographs of the period — although that should not surprise us , because it is also a characteristic feature of the emphasis given to the cut of clothes within ‘ high ’ fashion sketches . |
| 8 | ‘ Anything that can be come to encourage companies to increase their efforts or to consider exporting as a viable means of increasing profitability has to be seen as a most worthwhile and objective exercise . ’ |
| 9 | Well , anything that can be carried and produced without a lot of fuss is permissable — pipes , cigarettes , mirrors , handbags , fans , matches , etc . |
| 10 | Now it 's the oldest and hardest to find unless you are prepared to pay the ridiculous prices of independent fashion shops who 've searched the warehouses of middle America for anything that can be labelled ‘ old school ’ . |
| 11 | At that moment I understood that the Army out there , with its tanks aiding those madmen or , OK , even those pitiful people defending their immediate right to life is not defending anything that can be described as a social or national cause . |
| 12 | ‘ If you think of anything that can be added you can give them further study . ’ |
| 13 | Anything that can be learned will be noted ; action will be taken if needed . |
| 14 | But that , it appears , would be a far more monstrous solution than anything that can be dreamed up in a laboratory . |