Example sentences of "can do a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the Universe is the sort where an astronaut can do a round trip in a straight line , it has no edge or boundary ( like the balloon for the two-dimensional beetles ) . |
| 2 | You can either do it per pound or you can do a total amount in the end |
| 3 | I can do a Swedish impression . |
| 4 | On a rather higher level , one or two monthly magazines such as Vogue and Good Housekeeping can do a good merchandising job in department stores . |
| 5 | I would think your Ks are probably pretty good if you can do a good letter F . |
| 6 | I want to see whether they can do a good double take . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm prepared to listen to anyone and still think I can do a good job in the Premier League . |
| 8 | If that opportunity is denied the search company then they will have significant problems convincing their clients that they can do a good job . |
| 9 | Yeah , well like please do take this seriously because it 's , it 's quite important as regards to insurance and having As Vanbrugh proved last weekend , y we can do a good job with your stuff put together , and if like someone got fried , then you may end up in trouble . |
| 10 | He did a good job there and also at Plymouth and now he can do a good job for us . |
| 11 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 12 | And Keith Rowland looked comfortable when he came on for his first cap in the second half … another lad who can do a useful job for Northern Ireland in years to come . |
| 13 | Second , we can do a great deal to explain what is going on within the funeral service — the symbolism , the words used , the belief that lies behind some of the things said . |
| 14 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
| 15 | It is clear , first of all , that we can do a great deal to restore damaged waterways by using common sense and good engineering . |
| 16 | You can do a great deal to prevent problems of disobedience and pre-empt countless confrontations if you establish useful routines and personal habits for your child to follow : |
| 17 | An understanding and patient wife can do a great deal to help . |
| 18 | Obviously we can not choose our parents but we can do a great deal to improve the shape , form and texture of these problem areas . |
| 19 | The spiritual resources of patients can do a great deal to help in their recovery or bring about a peaceful death . |
| 20 | we 're obviously now in a position where we can do a great deal more in terms of analysis . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's all important ; Roman is the foremost designer of sports and leisure clothes in the world , and you must realise he can do a great deal for my career . ’ |
| 22 | Well I do n't suppose she can do a great deal now , I mean she ca n't |
| 23 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke says we can do a Roman banquet so we got a book from the library about what sort of food they ate . |
| 25 | You can do a blue movie with this thing |
| 26 | Controlling risk is still the first priority and they can do a substantial amount themselves . |
| 27 | ( You can do a similar exercise with similarly startling results on the customer service side by , as they put it , ‘ stapling yourself to a purchase order ’ and watching how many hands it passes through ) . |
| 28 | No , but we can do a similar thing . |
| 29 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
| 30 | Clearly we can do a formal analysis on these tokens and , in both cases , the speaker says of Adam that he is quick . |