Example sentences of "could [be] done [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reflected a very negative and ageist view that there was little which could be done to improve the health of older people . |
| 2 | Despairing in his heart that anything further could be done to improve the conditions of seafarers , Plimsoll nevertheless continued to work without respite to promote the cause in which he so passionately believed , and did so until illness forced him out of the public scene . |
| 3 | There was little that could be done to improve the overall unkempt appearance , except to dig the whole lot up and start again , but , as Luther Reynolds told David on one occasion , ‘ I do n't use the bloody garden , so why should I waste precious money on it ? |
| 4 | However , despite the repeated calls for co-operation between the different interests , nothing could be done to allay the criticisms of certain members of the Board of Education , sections of the educational press , notably the School Government Chronicle ( organ of the LEAs ) , and several local Directors of Education . |
| 5 | During the critical weeks of growing unrest and public strike , he and I were in daily touch , trying to understand the situation and see what could be done to solve the difficulties . |
| 6 | It 'd got to the stage where the workforce were not gon na talk to the management on a an official level , you know we were still talking informally at the picket line and , you know still trying to be helpful and offer our advice on what could be done to solve the dispute . |
| 7 | Karen McDonald , BML 's NBS co-ordinator , said a NBS committee meeting would be held on 24th May to discuss what could be done to revitalise the sale . |
| 8 | It is not the most that could be done to protect the consumer , but the least that the Government thought that they could get away with . |
| 9 | But little could be done to redress the situation since the houses were in just as bad a position as the growers . |
| 10 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |
| 11 | In his report book he asked if something could be done to make the lunatic wards a little less depressing . |
| 12 | Oh , there were all kinds if things that could be done to make the visit memorable . |
| 13 | Little could be done to counteract the John Osborne criticisms , for they abominated the very idea of monarchy . |
| 14 | The buildings continued to be used for this purpose until the mid-1980s when an enterprising manager of a local farm realised that something could be done to salvage the structures for a more profitable use . |
| 15 | Significantly ( in view of the stronger actions of the subsequent Conservative government ) public authorities were asked ‘ to furnish schedules of void sites within the partnership authorities with a view to establishing what could be done to accelerate the development or redevelopment of non-operational sites ’ . |