Example sentences of "can [verb] is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The biggest mistake you can make is to go to someone who 's just separated and say , ‘ I 'm glad you left him or her . |
| 2 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 3 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | About the only contribution information technology can make is to assist in the compilation of cricket statistics . |
| 6 | Reading Unamuno , I found this passage which gave me comfort among all the mockery : ‘ The greatest height of heroism to which an individual , like a people , can attain is to know how to face ridicule . ’ |
| 7 | For any Singer knitters out there who find they are struggling to understand the machine — the only advice I can give is to persevere and experiment . |
| 8 | Aideed , asked in an interview with the US television network CBS if he had any message for President Bill Clinton , said : ‘ I think the best message I can give is to stop killing the Somali people killing will not solve anything . ’ |
| 9 | Other than that the only advice I can give is to get hold of the Torygraph , from Wednesday 5th . |
| 10 | All you can do is to notice the spelling when you read . |
| 11 | I think the worst thing you can do is to ask parents for measurements — as this can lead to problems . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What it can do is to stimulate interest and encourage teachers to think about the implications of their practices . |
| 14 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | But the least I can do is to call him , let him know . ’ |
| 18 | However if this is what the old person wants , one of the most helpful things we can do is to back up their wish for this to happen . |
| 19 | All we can do is to report observations at national and international meetings where the keenest , most dedicated enthusiasts gather . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Then I suppose all we can do is to take her one of our Christmas puddings and some holly and things , ’ said Christine sadly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 24 | And then I r I realized that the job was only gon na last a year , cos it 's only a year job , so the best thing I can do is to go all out for what I wan na do when I leave the centre . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is something I , I think inherent in the nature of philosophical questions , that probably the very best a philosopher can do is to test some way of seeking to formulate the nature of human knowledge and the relation of the thinking man to the world , erm test some way in which one seeks to render that explicit and self-conscious , to destruction . |
| 27 | The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made . |
| 28 | She wants to escape from home , and the least we can do is to let her stay here for a while . |
| 29 | Well , I think all I can do is to reiterate that this road would not be considered for construction at all at this stage if it was n't for the probable re-siting of the erm transfer station and therefore we would not be looking at any aspect of it at this time if it were not for that . |
| 30 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |