Example sentences of "they can [verb] is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we and they can do is to resist the degeneration of a justified action of international collective security into a United States ' imperial ego-trip , to stop the affair getting further out of hand , and in doing so to prevent the UN , the only available base for world order , from falling into lasting discredit . |
| 2 | Since the Ministers presenting this legislation hardly ever travel by bus , the least they can do is to listen to those who do so daily . |
| 3 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 4 | The IMF and the World Bank are not inexhaustible cornucopias — all they can do is to dispense whatever they receive from wealthy governments , ie , from taxpayers . |
| 5 | Maybe they have n't er been able to er find ways of talking to each other about those difficult things , and maybe they 've , they 've built up lots and lots of assumptions and resentments and disappointment , and they do n't know how to handle it , and they feel that the only thing they can do is to get out . |
| 6 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | What they can do is to consider whether at the time the decision was made it was intended by the patient to apply in the changed situation . |
| 9 | All they can do is to ensure that the decision-maker did have some reasonable grounds for his action . |
| 10 | But what they can do is to ensure that the additional factors of instability , caused by the economic hardship produced by the moves to a market economy , are kept to a minimum . |
| 11 | It will not expand and since it completely encloses their bodies , the only way they can grow is to shed it periodically . |