Example sentences of "can do [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All the pilot can do is to signal if the launch is too fast or abandon the launch if it is to slow . |
| 3 | All we can do is plant and hope . |
| 4 | She has n't stopped complaining since that shopping centre went up , but , like , with people like that all you can do is listen and sympathize . |
| 5 | The most an artist can do is to limit the amounts which are paid to a well-known producer . |
| 6 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 7 | All you can do is wait until your stepfather gets the will admitted to probate . |
| 8 | What I can do is , I can go back and see if his car 's still there . |
| 9 | ‘ If all you can do is swear — , ‘ For Christ 's sake ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If your nature is fire , all you can do is burn . ’ |
| 11 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 12 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 13 | What parents can do is buy in both their names with an account designation of up to three letters which would be the child 's initial . |
| 14 | Having perfected this petulant stance , all he can do is reiterate it — with a self-deprecating acknowledgement of the onset of self-parody : ‘ Stop Me if You Think You 've Heard This One Before ’ , ‘ Sweet and Tender Hooligan ’ , where the chorus is simply ‘ et cetera , et cetera ’ … |
| 15 | One thing she can do is to make appointments to the state 's numerous policy-making commissions and boards . |
| 16 | With the pound locked into the European Monetary System , the most and the least the government can do is ensure that nominal demand does not collapse . |
| 17 | The best thing managers can do is get out of their way . |
| 18 | But we do not know the real essences of the substances of natural philosophy , so all that we can do is to observe and list their properties , and form only beliefs and opinions about them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With few exceptions the only thing that Common Law can do is to give him money compensation . |
| 21 | The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made . |
| 22 | All he can do is resort to his native cunning and to prayer . |
| 23 | All I can do is transform what I see into words and tell you what 's going on . ’ |
| 24 | Only half convinced of the truth of my new thesis , and not wholly sure of where exactly I am , I can nevertheless recognize with some satisfaction that perhaps the most disconcerting thing a character in a novel can do is to announce that he is indeed a character in a novel . |
| 25 | What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way . |
| 26 | Often the most useful thing we can do is something obvious and practical that other people may be overlooking in their attempt to be helpful . |
| 27 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After the first two movements , after such great torture , all you can do is let the music flow . |
| 30 | It is important to appreciate that all a neurone can do is to transmit impulses at varying frequencies . |