Example sentences of "can [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking through this contract at what goodies you can earn is in itself an act to strengthen motivation and keep you on track . |
| 2 | At that time , of course , unemployment was not the major issue it is today , neither did we have the burden of AIDS , but I still maintain that the most important changes we can make are the ones inside our own heads . |
| 3 | Such attempts as we can make are essential . |
| 4 | The most generous excuse one can make is that Brooke was deliberately misled by his advisers . |
| 5 | About the only contribution information technology can make is to assist in the compilation of cricket statistics . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What should become apparent is that , while companies do make substantial financial contributions , a more important contribution they can make is expertise and management skills . ’ |
| 8 | The best comparison one can make is with either a largely exactly contemporary set of recordings on a Vogue Savoy collection , ‘ Original Bird — The Best of Bird on Savoy ’ ( Vogue , full price ) or a similarly anthological album highlighting his slightly later ( 1946–47 ) efforts for the Comet and Dial labels , namely ‘ Bird Symbols ’ ( Rhapsody , full price ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The best recommendation Gandalf can make is not to think about such things . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 13 | In the absence of dose-response studies , the only important point we can make is that transit was accelerated across the ICJ by a dose if ia 5HT that did not induce ileal secretion in vivo . |
| 14 | The only thing I can make is my normal , what I call a family fruit cake , which is very simple and quick i well not quick really but , I usually have it on when the Sunday roast 's doing so but erm and that 's about it , you know . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A consequence is that the kind of information we can glean is strictly limited — compared , at any rate , with that available for well-documented modern societies — but the results are still sufficiently significant to justify the effort . |
| 17 | Here they are , recently bereaved , and yet all they can think is ‘ What about me ? ’ |
| 18 | The only answer I can think is that some enterprising editor believed that , with ET all the rage after Star Wars , the time was ripe for a study of how Earthlings behave when aliens land . |
| 19 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 20 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 21 | And all I can think is Do n't confess , do n't confess , do n't confess . |
| 22 | And Tracey said that 's the only thing she can think is the fact they were tiny , cos Emma and that all are , tiny little skinny things and Jennifer . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Part of the three-year letter of intent went so far as to say — this is quite astonishing that for an initial period , which as far as I can recollect was never defined , British Rail should subsidise bus services because buses were being substituted for trains . |
| 25 | What Mr Sutherland can 've been thinking of , I do n't know . |
| 26 | The types of questions which can arise are varied ; for instance , ‘ Can we turn the paper over ? ’ , |
| 27 | The factual circumstances that can arise are infinite and the judges rely on a mixture of legal principle , policy and common sense to guide them through the maze . |
| 28 | Where problems can arise is in distinguishing between possible dates in the last few centuries , but prior to the bomb effect . |
| 29 | The sort of liability that can arise is often unforeseeable and can be expensive . |
| 30 | One additional problem which can arise is a noisy vibrating pump due to poor maintenance of the adsorption filter . |