Example sentences of "can [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 2 | While everyone in the U.S. rugby community is greatly saddened by these injuries , and are doing what they can for the crippled players and their families , no feels quite as upset as Toks Akpata . |
| 3 | Both will be attempting to reach Montpellier this year and both have been trying to experience as much professional golf as they can during the past year . |
| 4 | The training tempo increases over the next few weeks … as cox and crew alike attempt to learn all they can about the famous course . |
| 5 | But they collect everything they can about the notorious criminals . |
| 6 | Solicitors who do not tell their clients in advance as much as they can about the likely cost of a piece of work — or exceed an estimate without notice — are now at risk of having their charges reduced by the Law Society under its powers to penalise Inadequate Professional Services . |
| 7 | You should try to read as much as you can of the great Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists ; Shakespeare , Marlowe and Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , Tourneur , Webster , Middleton . |
| 8 | Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship . |
| 9 | As with all other stages of the conveyancing exercise , deal with as many as you can of the listed headings . |
| 10 | He plays a street artist , just one of many downtrodden but not downhearted characters getting by as best they can amid the urban squalor . |
| 11 | But the only answer to that is for the West to build the most solid alliance it can with the only Germany it 's got . |
| 12 | But I hope that as soon as possible we can with the various approvals and that the money will be found because I would suggest , without the speed reducing measures , this scheme will be a complete waste of money . |
| 13 | you , you ca n't carry , oh where 's the think that goes on the back ? , oh there , there we are , you ca n't carry the milk pet back because we ca n't put your foot rest up high like we can with the front one , so there 's nothing to balance it on , and if you drop it , the big plastic bottle will burst open , wo n't it ? put this rain hood |
| 14 | I mean , I think that one should put as much service as one possibly can into the preventive end — I ca n't see it as an either/or ! |
| 15 | You can from the other , if you lean out . |
| 16 | Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work . |
| 17 | The NCC says that , ‘ unnecessary inputs of fertilisers and pesticides … can in the long run be storing up trouble for the future … ’ |
| 18 | Our mathematicians have shown that it is theoretically possible , by doing the right highly complex calculations , to navigate safely through the world using these light rays , just as effectively as one can in the ordinary way using ultrasound — in some respects even more effectively ! |
| 19 | Moreover , the simplification can not be made , as it can in the terrestrial planets , that the influence of temperature on density is slight compared with the influence of pressure : the temperature change with depth in adiabatic lapse-rate models of Jupiter is much too large for this to be the case . |
| 20 | I sweep the rod back as much as I can in the confined space and , although the fish is rather small at about 1¼lb , it kicks up quite a fuss and there is nothing I can do to stop it splashing . |
| 21 | We must do all we can in the coming few years to block any parliamentary private Bill which could as easily be dealt with through this legislation . |
| 22 | To this end I have already started talking to as many people as I can in the local area , with some good response , but now wish to approach a wider audience — hence the appeal to you . |
| 23 | Association on this professional level can in the short term , however , certainly secure greater public awareness of the individual firms . |
| 24 | The trick is to get as much of the system installed as you can alongside the existing system so that you can change over all in one go . |
| 25 | The homoeopathic physician can on the other hand give the appropriate remedies for grief or fright , or whatever else it may have been , and experience the satisfaction of being told that the patient now feels better than she has done for years . |
| 26 | Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too . |
| 27 | She stood on the pavement and pointed the spray can at the low brick wall of their front garden . |