Example sentences of "can [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokeswoman for the Tyne and Wear Anti-Fascist Association said : ‘ The best thing people can do is consign this sort of rubbish to the rubbish bin which is where it belongs . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 3 | I think the best thing we can do is leave any talk of work until tomorrow and concentrate on the real reason why we agreed to this evening and get to know one another better . ’ |
| 4 | And the least I can do is make sure he has some peace and quiet while he can , poor little scrap , she thought . |
| 5 | Anne trusted you with the parcel ; the least you can do is make sure it reaches its destination on time . |
| 6 | All we can do is make sure adequate information is available so they know the likely effects . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 8 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 9 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 10 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 11 | Now what we can do is do that mathematically which is the exciting bit for some of you . |
| 12 | Each of us has to find our own truth and our own self in relation to the world ; all you can do is to remain true to yourself and your chosen path . |
| 13 | The worst thing we can do is become pred-ictable . ’ |
| 14 | All they can do is exchange one form of wage slavery' for another . |
| 15 | All that formational analysis can do is to put sociological questions to that general history and , at times , from these questions , suggest new areas for detailed research . |
| 16 | The best thing I can do is forget all about him , ’ she told a close friend . |
| 17 | What we can do is understand some of the general principles of how living things work , and why they exist at all . |
| 18 | Right , well , all I can do is take one lot , one coupon . |
| 19 | The worst thing that governments can do is to retard this admittedly painful process with subsidies to obsolete industries , or protectionist barriers . |
| 20 | What a book can do is to present current thinking on the subject in a logical pattern in language familiar to the reader , so that the concepts of project management are no longer foreign . |
| 21 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 22 | The worst thing you can do is set these things and then cock it up because secretaries is people that pride themselves on being administratively perfect |
| 23 | What you can do is list all the people down here and then you might have a skills matrix you might also have a product knowledge matrix yeah ? |
| 24 | and what you can do is to keep that one for best |
| 25 | All that natural selection can do is accept certain new variations , and reject others . |
| 26 | The final part of the procedure before analysis can begin is to see these categories of deixis within a particular discourse , operating at a point along a cline of activity . |
| 27 | All I can say is give these people a film score to settle . |