Example sentences of "can [be] do [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child care experts have gathered from throughout Scotland to discuss what can be done to improve the educational record of children in care . |
| 2 | This matter is of the greatest concern to my constituents , many of whom are at their wits ' end as to what can be done to halt the murderous menace of the theft and racing of cars in residential city streets . |
| 3 | It induces nausea and thereby inaction , since nothing can be done to affect the essential condition : action requires illusion . |
| 4 | 15th , Monkeys on the Edge : What can be done to save the rare primates of Brazil 's Atlantic Forest ? |
| 5 | Try as the leadership might to erase what happened , nothing can be done to change the one fact on which the future of China turns : the men who ordered the assault on Tiananmen Square will surely die long before the youth they ordered to be killed . |
| 6 | As with Land Rovers , updating ( and possibly a personal number plate ) can be done to hide the true age of a Range Rover or to improve its appearance or replacement for accident or corrosion reasons with newer parts . |
| 7 | Side leg exercises can be done to work the outer thigh area , and a wide variety of scissor-type exercises can be done for the hips and lower stomach areas , ( More advanced stomach exercises can be carried out using weights if desired . ) |