Example sentences of "can [verb] is [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly , chief executives are being persuaded — by a sales pitch which asserts that the most expensive mistake a company can make is to promote the wrong executive to a key job — to hire psychometric testers to analyse their management options . |
| 2 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 3 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 4 | The least we can do is plant a few trees in return . |
| 5 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 6 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 7 | With plywood and hardboard , it 's no so easy to hide the joins , and the best you can do is to use a thick textures paper such as woodchip or a heavy blown vinyl . |
| 8 | One of the worst things you can do is to invite a few friends round who then chat in the background so that there is a continuous hubbub . |
| 9 | British manufacturing is taking a blow and all that the Minister can do is to give a monosyllabic , negative answer without any explanation . |
| 10 | As a result of the uncertainty generated in the private sector by expected movements in these variables the best that the public sector can do is to inform the private sector of its intentions and then act accordingly . |
| 11 | What you can do is to insert the cardboard backing into the envelope like that and then you put that bit through the rings , and then it becomes a tear pad . |
| 12 | Erm , if of course you 're heavily into recycling , er , what you can do is put the whole pad inside er , the envelope and use a . |
| 13 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 14 | All the Vendor can do is disclose the latest management accounts of the Business and leave the Purchaser to judge the position for himself . |
| 15 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 16 | The only way in which we can help is having a Labour government that has a policy to secure verifiable arms reductions . |