Example sentences of "[art] [adj] thing you can " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUSHIEST COMMENT : ‘ The greatest thing you can do do when you love somebody is to make another human being . ’ |
| 2 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 3 | Elaine England , senior training analyst at Lloyds Bank says : ‘ The worst thing you can do is fall in love with the gadgets and technology . ’ |
| 4 | I think the worst thing you can do is to ask parents for measurements — as this can lead to problems . |
| 5 | Furthermore , liking the bulbs for dividing is bound to disturb the roots of the roses , which is just about the worst thing you can do to them . |
| 6 | The worst thing you can do is buy things you will rarely , if ever , need . |
| 7 | I have to say , myself , you know I feel one of the worst thing you can call a man in the English language is a term that 's used for a women 's genitalia . |
| 8 | And the worst thing you can do is give your skin a short period of intensive exposure to sun — exactly what we go in for when we jet off on our summer holidays . |
| 9 | They will form all sorts of categories too and the worst thing you can do in sa in er negotiating advertising er Richard is to prejudge anybody |
| 10 | The worst thing you can do is set these things and then cock it up because secretaries is people that pride themselves on being administratively perfect |
| 11 | I sent him to the north of Scotland on the nearest thing you can get to a wild goose chase — to try to see our country 's most elusive bird , the capercaillie . ’ |
| 12 | At the moment , Rabbit 's British-made GPT phone is the only digital portable phone widely available in the UK , and the telepoint network it uses is the nearest thing you can get to digital mobile telephony . |
| 13 | The first thing you can alter is the GR 's inbuilt chorus and reverb . |
| 14 | And the first thing you can do is fetch water so that I may wash off the city dust before I change my dress . " |
| 15 | But the one thing you can do is to think like us . |
| 16 | Love it or hate it , the one thing you can never deny about the NME is that — even when it is n't immediately evident from the paper 's contents — we 've always adored music . |
| 17 | Well actually the one thing you can say about it is , it is a good grounding for what you now go on and do |
| 18 | Right , and you get them to something that you can deal with , because the one thing you can not deal with right , we want to think it over , it is n't matter where you take them to , right whether it 's the bathroom window , whether it 's the one in |
| 19 | ‘ The worse thing you can do to a Muslim is insult Muhammad . ’ |
| 20 | The only thing you can be sure of is that US interest will always come first . |
| 21 | If it has n't , the only thing you can do — apart from continuing your garage-less existence , or renting one from a car-less neighbour — is to convert part of the ground floor of your house to construct a built-in garage , with all the upheaval and loss of living space which that entails . |
| 22 | So if you 're going to plan ahead , now , which I think is the only thing you can do in the circumstances … what I suggest is a with-profits endowment policy linked to a seven-year maturity date with yearly incrementals — optional , if you like , or you can build them in , it depends how optimistic you are about your career , ha ha — leaving a little bit of the schools fees to pay at the time , but there will be a big chunk taken out , that 's for sure … and do it off monthly standing orders of around … let's say … five hundred a month ? |
| 23 | Do they inform young people that the only thing you can not lose in life are your paper qualifications — if you think about it ? |
| 24 | Many times the chub take slugs so viciously they rip them clean off the hook , and the only thing you can do to improve matters is to thread the line through the full length of the slug with a baiting needle , attach the hook and pull it back so that one end of the slug is lying in the bend of the hook . |
| 25 | The only thing you can be sure of with a Midland TESSA is that the rate of interest we pay will always be competitive . |
| 26 | It 's the only thing you can do with an organisation of this size . |
| 27 | The only thing you can do is scribble ; and what is the result of your scribblings ? |
| 28 | It is daft and unpleasant , rationalises Richard , but logical : ‘ You 're told where to go and what to say — or at least how to say it — and the only thing you can control is the shape of your sandwich or whether your coffee 's cold , so that 's where you exercise the control . ’ |
| 29 | The only thing you can do is funk it ! |
| 30 | The only thing you can do is carry on with your water changes and syphon off the algae at every opportunity . |