Example sentences of "can [verb] [is] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly , chief executives are being persuaded — by a sales pitch which asserts that the most expensive mistake a company can make is to promote the wrong executive to a key job — to hire psychometric testers to analyse their management options . |
| 2 | All you can do is to notice the spelling when you read . |
| 3 | Of course , if for any reason you have to leave your garden for several months , the best thing you can do is to sow a suitable green manure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made . |
| 7 | One of the worst things you can do is to invite a few friends round who then chat in the background so that there is a continuous hubbub . |
| 8 | All that we can do is to set the visitor in motion ; but having done so , we can not review his decision . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | British manufacturing is taking a blow and all that the Minister can do is to give a monosyllabic , negative answer without any explanation . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Erm , so what I can do is to put the B four here inside of that string comma zero . |
| 13 | What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way . |
| 14 | The best we can do is to grow a covering of skin over the stump where the amputation occurred . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As a result of the uncertainty generated in the private sector by expected movements in these variables the best that the public sector can do is to inform the private sector of its intentions and then act accordingly . |
| 17 | What you can do is to insert the cardboard backing into the envelope like that and then you put that bit through the rings , and then it becomes a tear pad . |
| 18 | At the time of writing , all I can do is to encourage the reader not to despise prophecies , but to test everything , pay attention , look and see whether these things come to pass : test the fruit . |
| 19 | All the computer can do is to reduce the drudgery , freeing the brain in front of the screen to do more productive things . |
| 20 | The most an artist can do is to limit the amounts which are paid to a well-known producer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The most I can do is to offer a very brief and personal view of some of the recent changes in emphasis drawing from the syllabuses of ten countries and to isolate a few of the new approaches which strike me as particularly interesting and exciting . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | What these things can do is to enhance the quality of life by helping us to transmute ‘ stress ’ into positive challenges , thus preventing the onset of apathy or even depression . |