Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [adv] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What computers can easily do is to enable unskilled people to produce rubbish twice as quickly as they did before , ’ Forsyth remarks . |
| 2 | What these animals can not do is localize sounds independently of their position relative to the animal 's body . |
| 3 | What the questionnaire responses can not tell is how many individual pupils miss out on information relating to these topics throughout the whole of their school career . |
| 4 | The law has come too late for Anna McGurk , all her parents can now hope is that by the passing of this bill , some good will finally have come from her death . |
| 5 | The only thing that Trolls can not survive is fire . |
| 6 | What these experiments can not reveal is whether both the equivalence and distinctiveness treatments are effective in producing changes in the discriminability of the cues — clearly the observed difference could be obtained if just one of these treatments worked . |
| 7 | What instrumental techniques can not do is evaluate the sensory attributes of an odour , in particular its acceptability , nor can they compete with the human nose as far as sensitivity to most odours is concerned . |
| 8 | All that liberals can not tolerate is pretension to infallibility . |
| 9 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 10 | White Men Ca n't Jump is a little big movie . |
| 11 | White Men Ca n't Jump is funny , touching and slushier than a wellington boot full of dog 's wee . |
| 12 | The only thing the Tories ca n't tax is fresh air . |