Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In a poststructuralist development of the idea , it is claimed that the most literary texts can offer is the endless ‘ free play of signifiers ’ . |
| 8 | What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way . |
| 9 | The worst thing that governments can do is to retard this admittedly painful process with subsidies to obsolete industries , or protectionist barriers . |
| 10 | The best the psychologists can do is describe the process as one of positive re-inforcement — which means that if you like something , you will tend to do it again . |
| 11 | The best thing managers can do is get out of their way . |
| 12 | The only place the resources can go is the film industry , so too many films are being produced . |
| 13 | Where problems can arise is in distinguishing between possible dates in the last few centuries , but prior to the bomb effect . |
| 14 | WHERE difficulties can occur is in the matter of families . |
| 15 | What these things can do is to enhance the quality of life by helping us to transmute ‘ stress ’ into positive challenges , thus preventing the onset of apathy or even depression . |
| 16 | An illustration of the economic damage that flexible exchange rates can inflict is provided by the experience of the UK during 1979 – 81 . |
| 17 | This means that , because the smallest permissible amount by which interest rates can move is 0.01 per cent ( i.e. 0.0001 ) , the smallest change in the price of ST3 contract is 12.50 . |
| 18 | The best that scientists can do is to submit specimens to an ‘ Arrhenius Test ’ , based on a formula by the Swedish physicist Arrhenius , which predicts the rate at which chemical reactions will occur . |
| 19 | The best that societies can do is to strive to achieve them . |
| 20 | If the law is really going to be so pedantic over this , then the least the police can do is ensure everybody is aware of the rules well in advance . |
| 21 | all the police can do is tell them you know ? |
| 22 | The most ministers can do is to argue the case for change and enable the changes to be made . |
| 23 | The maximum claimants can get is 20/80ths ( one-quarter ) of your revalued average earnings . |
| 24 | Because what new drugs can do is they can put your blood pressure down quite quickly . |
| 25 | Critical viscosity separating thermal boundary layers that retain crystals from those from which the crystals can escape is shown as a function of temperature difference driving convection . |
| 26 | Thus the maximum height to which ripples can develop is limited . |
| 27 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |
| 28 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 29 | At the same time , the film offers itself for ‘ simultaneous collective experience ’ and the reason why critical and affirmative attitudes can fuse is because ‘ individual reactions are predetermined by the mass audience response they are about to produce … |
| 30 | Imposing exogenously a particular form of price rigidity which happens to produce the result that Keynesian stabilization policies can work is hardly enough by itself to justify such policies . |