Example sentences of "[noun] can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Redwood said : ‘ I will not listen if all the Opposition can do is bellow out megaphone caricature . |
| 2 | However a DSS Press Release states that the Government has accepted the recommendation of the Social Security Advisory Committee to adopt an alternative approach whereby the circumstances under which unlimited arrears can apply is more explicitly defined . |
| 3 | Mankind 's failure to recognise with conviction that this basic source of ‘ goodness ’ represents the first premise from which to define God , would mean that the only way in which civilisation can prosper is barred , for there is no other identifiable source available . |
| 4 | The question mark at the end of line 4 refers back to ‘ with whom ? ’ 'No vicissitude can find' is therefore a statement of fact , implying a pagan , not a Christian attitude . |
| 5 | What neither the historian nor archaeologist can reconstruct is the time taken for the two cultures to mingle , with intermarriage and innovations in the languages . |
| 6 | A covered area complete with bedding where the guinea pig can shelter is essential . |
| 7 | To be more specific , the gene R in Figure 5 , which makes recombination possible , may have no effect at all on the survival of an organism in which it finds itself , or on the number of offspring produced ; what R can affect is only the particular kinds of genes with which it will be associated in future generations . |
| 8 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 9 | In the last resort all that a test can give is a relation between two or more quantities such as load , displacement , time and temperature from which it is inferred that this is the general relation connecting these quantities throughout the body , for the assumption of such a general relation is at the basis of elasticity theory and continuum mechanics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 14 | Nothing that her bright boy can do is wrong . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With few exceptions the only thing that Common Law can do is to give him money compensation . |
| 17 | An equally crucial ( though much less often discussed ) area in which errors can arise is that relating to the interview itself — to the content of the schedule and the measurement and/or classification of the resulting data . |
| 18 | The size of figure represented on the card which an individual child can discriminate is then set against the information in the conversion table which indicates the correct text size usable by the child , as well as indicating the visual aid needed when reading certain print sizes at specific distances . |
| 19 | In a poststructuralist development of the idea , it is claimed that the most literary texts can offer is the endless ‘ free play of signifiers ’ . |
| 20 | All that the Institute can do is to support them ( which it does ) . |
| 21 | The speed at which direct marketers such as Dell can move is unparalleled , thanks to their knowledge of the customers ' wants and needs , and has resulted in the development of a whole class of computer-literate users . |
| 22 | Often the best that one engineer can do is , in any case , exceeded by the best that another engineer can do , especially another who lives later in the history of technology . |
| 23 | So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said . |
| 24 | All the Vendor can confirm is that ‘ proper ’ provision has been made . |
| 25 | This warranty is too wide ; all the Vendor can do is warrant that the intellectual property rights listed in the relevant schedule are used in connection with the Business . |
| 26 | All the Vendor can do is disclose the latest management accounts of the Business and leave the Purchaser to judge the position for himself . |
| 27 | Any linguistic knowledge the teacher can bring is a welcome bonus . |
| 28 | What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way . |
| 29 | And all Sean Walsh can do is stand like a stuffed dummy in that hospital and talk about me ! ’ |
| 30 | The worst thing that governments can do is to retard this admittedly painful process with subsidies to obsolete industries , or protectionist barriers . |