Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of opportunities can be particularly damaging to the young or to the needy and can exacerbate the rural population changes identified in chapter 4 . |
| 2 | Criminally negligent directors in the UK are not sent to prison as in other countries — the worst that can happen is a fine — and even that can be insured against and paid by the company . |
| 3 | Ask yourself ‘ what is the worst that can happen ? ’ in any given situation . |
| 4 | What is the worst that can happen if you do not achieve it ? |
| 5 | I shall sit here and wait and sweat it out and look the facts in the face , trying to anticipate the worst that can happen . |
| 6 | The paradoxes put forward Tolkien 's theses that determination should survive the worst that can happen , that a stout pretence is more valuable than sincere despair . |
| 7 | That way the worst that can happen is you will miss a turn . |
| 8 | What 's the worst that can happen ? |
| 9 | The worst that can happen is that its domain of applicability becomes circumscribed . |
| 10 | Very little mess occurs , about the worst that can happen is that the jet gets clogged causing the ink drops to get oversized or the reservoir is removed without being capped . |
| 11 | ‘ The worst that can happen … ’ she took a deep breath , hoping that this was the right thing to say ‘ … is that the baby has to be delivered over the next few days . ’ |
| 12 | What is the worst that can happen ? ’ |
| 13 | Grands jetés en avant require a spring onwards from one foot to the other and can take on many forms . |