Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I can also do is leverage the power of client server extensions to S Q L. We talked about pioneering efforts in stored procedures and triggers . |
| 2 | All that I can honestly say is that after collecting the facts I do decide one way or another , without having any reasons which will satisfy you if you do not share the same standards . |
| 3 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
| 4 | In an attempt to compensate for this and to represent what I can only assume is a minority interest for your readership , my entry consists of a substantial majority of jazzers . |
| 5 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 6 | The quality buildings will be let — Broadgate is now 95 per cent leased — but slowly developers will realise they have to convert the bad space which I can only say is a lot of classified DIY . ’ |
| 7 | So all I can really say is , I do hope you enjoy your visit here to England and that when you do go back to the States you will feel that it 's really been well worthwhile . |
| 8 | So if you feel discouraged , in that you do n't think you can put two words together , or discouraged because you ‘ um ’ and ‘ er ’ or anything else of that kind , just say to yourself , ‘ I can perhaps overcome this , but what I can certainly overcome is being boring , ’ if you are . |
| 9 | so all I can possibly do is |
| 10 | One recipe that I can fulsomely recommend is the Abbacchio all Cacciatore , for its simplicity in the cooking and its all-round excellence on the plate . |
| 11 | ‘ Because all I can ever do is bloody leave — one group after another . |
| 12 | Take this , take this , do this , do that , you can fucking kiss is better ! |
| 13 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 14 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 15 | Right well first of all the first thing we can probably do is broadsheet to the trade introducing product and incentives . |
| 16 | After all , while most of us would condemn escapism as a total way of life , our capacity to use our imaginations to construct alternative worlds into which we can temporarily retreat is certainly a central human characteristic and seems , on the whole , a valuable one . |
| 17 | Some are so widely separated that their motion relative to each other is too small to be measured at all , and all we can really say is that they are travelling through space together , at the same rate and in the same direction . |
| 18 | Mr Gibson says : ‘ What we can always do is listen to the problem and see if we can work out a solution . ’ |
| 19 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 20 | What we can actually do is suggest to the C , the C D or the computer shop your manufacturer can send directly to Peter via us , I then say via us . |
| 21 | Probably the only assumption that we can safely make is that ‘ our man ’ , as you call him , is still in the area . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't really think we can necessarily say that it must be vitamin E that is a protective factor , but what we can now say is that fruit and vegetables seem to protect against heart disease , ’ says Professor James . |
| 23 | What we can now see is that for the first timefor a very long epriod we have inflation at a ver low level and the clear prospect of growth without inflationary difficulties . |
| 24 | This is correct , but bearing in mind the observations made above , all one can reasonably do is to assume that everything published and available is legally permissible until the law says it is not . |
| 25 | All that one can profitably do is concentrate on weeding out the propositions with faulty grammar and those that contextually give rise to paradoxes . |
| 26 | The worst one can fairly say is that in some scenes — the Andúril ones , the Field of Cormallen , the eagle 's song — Tolkien under-estimated his audience 's resistance and reached too hastily for the sublime or the impressive . |
| 27 | So we would examine socially determined personality differences between the sexes , why it is that men are always seen to be the intellectuals , things like that , They were important discussions as women often feel that community action is a mystery to them and that the only thing they can really understand is looking after the kids , I think the courses were a success because many campesina women became important leaders afterwards . |
| 28 | Er er erm and if we can if if they can all use is it |
| 29 | Make sure you leave at least a page at the end of each question in case you suddenly g cos what can often happen is you 're writing the answer to one and you think , oh that relates to the earlier one . |