Example sentences of "what we can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we can do is think about the meaning of play and fantasy , and the repercussions of denying a child the sort of toys and television-watching that is allowed to almost every other child . |
| 2 | But what we can do is give the children all the knowledge that this boy has without the experiences . |
| 3 | What we can do is choose our friends and only listen to those whose opinion we totally respect . |
| 4 | What we can do is attempt to get hold of the rules of the game so that we can make sense of a game as it is played . |
| 5 | What we can do is examine the concept of power from a number of different perspectives . |
| 6 | The only thing is what we can do is like everything else . |
| 7 | What we can do is understand some of the general principles of how living things work , and why they exist at all . |
| 8 | Now what we can do is do that mathematically which is the exciting bit for some of you . |
| 9 | Well we 've had all this trauma about you know , cos I do you , where do you want the he said well do n't see much of daddy or nan and granddad and nana and granddad said they moved in on Christmas Day stay here and Rachael and Steven would n't come up , stay here on Christmas Day , it 's quite likely , quite likely to go with daddy he said but , in many ways I he said I know what we can do is when we send up the chimney we could put nanny 's address , nanny 's address on it , shall we ? |
| 10 | I mean what we can do is set the oven . |
| 11 | So I says What we can do is I 'll do an hour for you , we 'll move the piano and other bits , bicycles in this case that he had , we 'll shift them to the house close by , drop two men off , and one man 'll come and do the remainder of the work . |
| 12 | Erm what we can do is er use something here . |
| 13 | What we can change is our future . |
| 14 | But what we can say is that we can select out from the group of solid tumours the ones that do badly . |
| 15 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 16 | But what we can say is that there is a length of 306 characters in cows , which is virtually identical to a length of 306 characters in peas . |
| 17 | What we can say is that the landscape and the resources are already there as background noise and it will be people who decide on the importance of the new material and how , or even if , it is used . |
| 18 | What we can say is that where pollution control has been attempted it has usually taken a crude and simple form . |
| 19 | What we can say is that Caribbean usages have spread outwards beyond the Caribbean community itself , so that there are a number of expressions of Caribbean origin now in use in London both within and outside the black community . |
| 20 | Okay , so , I think what we can say is that agricultural trade in absolute terms has probably risen |
| 21 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 22 | For example if you 've got between thirteen and twenty for an activist that 's a very strong preference , however for a reflector a very strong preference is eighteen to twenty , because by nature most of us tend , you know most of us tend to stand back and think so what we actually need , what we wh what we can see is that when we compare our scores against the general norms it 's a much more accurate picture of our learning style . |
| 23 | And what we can see is that Mr Williamson 's interpretation of strictly controlled means not normally be permitted . |
| 24 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |