Example sentences of "is [adj] [noun] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publisher might refuse and there is little IRS can do to force that publisher to help the band . |
| 2 | Some statuses are relatively fixed and there is little individuals can do to change their assignment to particular social positions . |
| 3 | A possible conclusion to be drawn from this is that management can provide alternative more attractive forms of work organisation but these may be at higher cost . |
| 4 | The third benefit of object-oriented software , O'Connell claims , is that ACT can respond quickly to changing market conditions at minimal cost . |
| 5 | THE problem with sending Christmas gifts to children living overseas is that postage can double the price of the presents . |
| 6 | THE problem with sending Christmas gifts to children living overseas is that postage can double the price of the presents . |
| 7 | THE problem with sending Christmas gifts to children living overseas is that postage can double the price of the presents . |
| 8 | And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference . |
| 9 | An advantage of this system is that work can commence much earlier than in the traditional system because much of the design work will take place at the same time as the actual construction . |
| 10 | Another consideration is that English can seem at first glance rather different in primary and in secondary schools . |
| 11 | The difference between material relations and social relations is that knowledge can transform the nature of social relations but knowledge can transform only the specificity of material relations . |
| 12 | What is less obvious is that drama can have a central role in developing children 's reading and writing skills , not only in English but also in most other curriculum areas . |
| 13 | It is that reason can come to play a central part in one 's life , so that we can properly talk of ‘ a life of reason ’ . |
| 14 | The practical reason why it is wise in the long term to give much more careful thought to river and wetland management is that drainage can contain , profoundly , the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 15 | The point is that acceleration can fake gravity . |
| 16 | By analogy with examples of repressors from other dimeric transcription factor families ( 26 , 49 ) one likely possibility is that ICR can heterodimerise with CREB through the leucine zipper . |
| 17 | The decision based on a number of current offspring , larger numbers can be greater benefited with and therefore it 's more likely that if the parent had a lot of er offspring then he would continue with the investment and erm the conclusion from now is that males have a greater reproductive success , therefore they are more likely to desert because they can erm and erm this and erm the basic argument of this is one parent can get away with investing less share of erm resources they 're likely to spend more er then they 're to do it , so in other words erm if , if one of the , of the two is being to get away with having the other they can go out to er pursue their own and therefore erm each partner force the other to invest more . |
| 18 | Yes , you see the thing is one appointment can cock up your whole system , because if it like you said , if one , if a customer does happen to call in and say , look I need somebody in here desperately , when do you want it , when it 's smack in the middle , it 's not the other side of the world , but you know he 's in Nuneaton or something , well you still have to go out and see him . |