Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] can [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visits from a local authority social worker can also do much to open up other lines of communication for the old and lonely ; and it can be helpful too for any elderly person who is housebound and not within easy calling or tapping distance of her neighbours , to have a large clear HELP notice to put in her window , and a loud bell to ring in an emergency if there is no telephone . |
| 2 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
| 3 | No brief summary can possibly do justice to the depth of the analysis ; but it has already been tried out on some uncommonly hard-nosed customers , and elicited their approbation . |
| 4 | Although the computer has a hyphenation dictionary ( it knows how to split words that come at the end of a line ) , a skilled composer can usually do a better job . |
| 5 | He added that he could not see ‘ what the Portuguese administration can further do to enlarge the Macanese people 's confidence ’ . |
| 6 | And in that we 're actually going to look at erm the actual what Jesus promised with erm with the coming of the Holy Spirit , and what the Holy Spirit can actually do for us . |
| 7 | But when other people talk a lot of rubbish about hidden powers , I like to show what Siberian Magic can really do … |