Example sentences of "can [verb] [is] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | About the only contribution information technology can make is to assist in the compilation of cricket statistics . |
| 3 | An illustration of the economic damage that flexible exchange rates can inflict is provided by the experience of the UK during 1979 – 81 . |
| 4 | But these are no reasons for not looking through the accounts , and making sure that all we can give is turned to real advantage . |
| 5 | Here I am , yours for the asking ; talented , handsome , lovable and affectionate , and all you can do is gawk at a couple of brainless broads . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The least you can do is talk to John . |
| 8 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |
| 9 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 10 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 11 | The character can not benefit by what he or she now knows and all the reader can do is reflect on all that has been lost or missed . |
| 12 | And all Sean Walsh can do is stand like a stuffed dummy in that hospital and talk about me ! ’ |
| 13 | In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on . |
| 14 | All I can do is sit in the front and wait till I see Tod Richardson . |
| 15 | Since the Ministers presenting this legislation hardly ever travel by bus , the least they can do is to listen to those who do so daily . |
| 16 | All he can do is moan with pain . |
| 17 | The most it can do is draw with its opponent . |
| 18 | All I can do is land on all your . |
| 19 | All he can do is resort to his native cunning and to prayer . |
| 20 | Your balls are well separated , I mean , the best I can do is take off the yellow , then I can make the . |
| 21 | All we can do is wait for it to pass through . |
| 22 | Now , all we can do is wait for his report and get on with more work . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ At the time I wanted to weep or murder somebody , but now — ’ he shrugged pragmatic shoulders ‘ — all I can do is wait for the next time . ’ |
| 24 | I just do n't know what 's going on , all I can do is wait by the phone and hope I hear something |
| 25 | But the one thing you can do is to think like us . |
| 26 | Basically everything we all agree at the Institute the question of improving the lot of the Third World is the responsibility of Third Worlders , and in fact a number of us would add that in very many cases , certainly not in all , it would not be achieved through slow incremental technical change , but would require in some cases very major social structural changes that in some cases erm will only be brought about very major social upheaval erm and there all we can do is add to perhaps the element of increasing consciousness and awareness of the problems , which furthermore is a two way street , I mean when we have this study activities we learn as much from the people who attend the seminars as we tell them . |
| 27 | These two guys are meant to be on a Gipsy Working Party , finding somewhere for the gipsies to live , and all they can do is argue about it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 30 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |