Example sentences of "[adj -est] [pron] [vb mod] do [is] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The worst they can do is send us back tae Glasgow . ’
2 ‘ The best I can do is a heads of agreement outlining Harley 's deal .
3 If it 's daylight , the best I can do is follow you , stay close .
4 The best I can do is to offer you a free ¼ page advert , but I must have all the details in the next 48 hours .
5 Your balls are well separated , I mean , the best I can do is take off the yellow , then I can make the .
6 The best she can do is to try to secure it by non-military , legal means , and this she has done with a fair measure of success .
7 The best you can do is silks for a jockey skullcap , but should n't we be able to buy hats covered with light or reflective materials , instead of velvet , for road use ?
8 With plywood and hardboard , it 's no so easy to hide the joins , and the best you can do is to use a thick textures paper such as woodchip or a heavy blown vinyl .
9 The best you can do is be as careful as it 's possible to be . ’
10 Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia .
11 This immediately raises the question of what we mean by the separation of two particles A and B. It seems the best we can do is argue that the two particles A and B can be considered as separate only when the individual wave packets cease to overlap .
12 The best we can do is to grow a covering of skin over the stump where the amputation occurred .
13 The best we can do is Z 2 =-2 .
14 The best we can do is raise our own children differently ( a project that will fail , ironically , to the extent that children model themselves on the unreconstructed adults they encounter ! )
15 In other words , the best we can do is to assign a probability unc a for the photon to get through ( and , of course , a complementary probability unc that it does not ) .
16 I think the best we can do is wait until we find them . ’
17 The best we can do is to establish a habit of " challenge " since this allows the old idea to continue but at the same time attaches some doubt and dissatisfaction to it .
18 The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation .
19 When we think about those questions of individ individuation in our normal affairs , the best we can do is to say that what individuates us and also what makes us the same person through changes over time , is a great medley of factors , some of which are bodily , some of which involve our souls
20 Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) .
21 It turns out that the best he can do is to form his expectation of and in accordance with the following formulae : where
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