Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] can [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the computer can do is to reduce the drudgery , freeing the brain in front of the screen to do more productive things . |
| 2 | The newest method of converting hand movements to signals the computer can understand is called Trickstick . |
| 3 | It is felt that the best the taxpayer can do is to seek to pay out the monies in an income form to a beneficiary . |
| 4 | Mr Redwood said : ‘ I will not listen if all the Opposition can do is bellow out megaphone caricature . |
| 5 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 6 | All that the Institute can do is to support them ( which it does ) . |
| 7 | Any linguistic knowledge the teacher can bring is a welcome bonus . |
| 8 | All the Vendor can confirm is that ‘ proper ’ provision has been made . |
| 9 | This warranty is too wide ; all the Vendor can do is warrant that the intellectual property rights listed in the relevant schedule are used in connection with the Business . |
| 10 | All the Vendor can do is disclose the latest management accounts of the Business and leave the Purchaser to judge the position for himself . |
| 11 | The schoolboy tight-head fancied himself as a hard man and was intent on working Elliot who , in fact , was so immensely strong that the lad can have been no more than the most minor of irritants . |
| 12 | The only way the conflict can ease is if Connie and Parkin communicate with one another . |
| 13 | What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’ |
| 14 | The rate at which the economy can grow is now constrained more directly and immediately than ever before by the extent to which exports rise relative to import penetration . |
| 15 | With the pound locked into the European Monetary System , the most and the least the government can do is ensure that nominal demand does not collapse . |
| 16 | The best that the Government can do is propose to bring the worst regulator up to the standard of the inadequate , when we need regulation aspiring to the standards of the best . |
| 17 | In short there is a reading of Locke that ascribes to Locke a sort of minimum government theory the night watchman theory of government , that all the government can do is protect the lives , liberties and properties erm of the members of the body politic . |
| 18 | All the pilot can do is to signal if the launch is too fast or abandon the launch if it is to slow . |
| 19 | Another thing the subject can give is the greater enjoyment of the world around , wherever we are . |
| 20 | But if neither confesses , all the DA can do is nail them both on a lesser offence , for which the maximum sentence is one year . |
| 21 | This clearly has to be remedied by repeated reminders that change can only be brought about by the counsellee 's efforts and that consequently , the only part that the counsellor can play is to help decide what is to be done , how , and when . |
| 22 | The most stressful thing the interviewer can do is simply to let silence fall after you think you have answered a question . |
| 23 | Answer guide : Here Transom owes money to the bank which the bank can demand is repaid immediately . |
| 24 | The only ultimately effective way the worker can resist is through collective class action to overthrow the capitalist mode of production . |
| 25 | The utmost the Crown can say is that the wife would have withdrawn her consent if she had known what her husband knew … . |
| 26 | In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading . |
| 27 | A simple support strategy which the tutor can employ is to suggest that the student : |
| 28 | British manufacturing is taking a blow and all that the Minister can do is to give a monosyllabic , negative answer without any explanation . |
| 29 | That 's where the blood leads by , okay , on that side of the heart the left hand side of the heart it 's being pumped and therefore the muscle is a bigger muscle , that 's doing the contracting , the blood push out and it relaxes back again and that allows the blood to be sucked back down into the heart , okay , and the next time it 's shh , that goes out and then it relaxes down again and the blood sucks back down into the heart , okay so that 's what it does , all the muscle can do is that , muscle can only retract and then it relaxes , contract and then it relaxes , that 's what the heart 's doing all the time , how many beats a minute ? |
| 30 | The character can not benefit by what he or she now knows and all the reader can do is reflect on all that has been lost or missed . |