Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best conclusion that one can draw is that the objectives model provides a useful tool for certain purposes , especially the basic levels of knowledge and skill acquisition , but that is should not be used exclusively nor without judgement . |
| 2 | The other thing one can do is once again increasingly to use food that we , ourselves , can not or will not use , and the imposition of quotas which has put a degree of extensification on dairy production , has in fact encouraged this trend . |
| 3 | Sometimes all one can do is remember ‘ when in Rome … ’ and bear in mind some dos and don'ts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As none of us can ever get outside logocentrism ( its power over our habits of thought and over our language is so pervasive ) , the most that one can do is work against them from within in this sort of way . |
| 6 | The most generous excuse one can make is that Brooke was deliberately misled by his advisers . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | in a setting of suburban , industrial , residential development , and some of those viewpoints on the ring road all one can see is the suburban , industrial , and residential development . |
| 9 | Or rather , the most that one can predict is that the 1990s will be a period of yet more bumps and twists , swerves and U-turns , and unexpected developments . |
| 10 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 11 | Well I I think one of the greatest deterrents that one can have is the copper on the beat . |
| 12 | All one can say is that the story being told ( or hinted at ) is also one of gloom , death and parting , like that between Eärendil and Elwing , the mariner and the weeping women of Middle-earth . |
| 13 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 14 | The best one can say is that in those chapters , as in The Lord of the Rings more generally , a work essentially of ‘ romance ’ manages to rise at times towards ‘ myth ’ , and also to sink towards ‘ high ’ or even ‘ low mimesis , . |
| 15 | About all one can say is that while it is only too easy to make a weak material ( or indeed a material of no strength at all ) from strong chemical bonds , it is not possible to make very strong materials from weak bonds . |
| 16 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 17 | It is extremely difficult to construct a cost-of-living index for governmental expenditure and the most one can say is that , very roughly , the ordinary revenue of the Crown probably kept pace with inflation , but did not increase in real terms to meet the larger calls being made upon government . |
| 18 | Even with the modern partnership , no very satisfactory solution to this problem has been found , and the most one can say is that the partners have an equitable interest , often described as a lien , which floats over the partnership assets throughout the duration of the firm , although it crystallises only on dissolution . |
| 19 | All one can say is that discreet inquiries in the neighbourhood produced nothing , save to show that he certainly appears not to be in the flat now . " |
| 20 | All that one can say is that he was better than the current Labour party leader . |
| 21 | You may be okay , you may not be okay , you 've got two recessives per human figure , you 're not er , all one can say is genes are kind of heaped together and natural selection does n't really care . |
| 22 | The best advice anyone can give is for people to get their hands on a copy of the official festival programme and to plan their own agenda . |
| 23 | A Chamber spokesman said : ‘ The best present anyone can get is a job . ’ |
| 24 | The only woman in Tim 's early life who anyone can remember is Gillian Malpass — a tall , good-looking brunette who is now a senior editor at the London office of prestigious US publisher Yale University Press . |
| 25 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |