Example sentences of "can [verb] [is] [to-vb] [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 | All that I can do is to agree with my hon. Friend the Minister about the regulations and add some comments . |
| 4 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 5 | " Because all I can do is to pray to the spirits of our ancestors for forgiveness . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the one thing you can do is to think like us . |
| 8 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well the only way we can see is to turn to the , to the physicists and the computer experts and to remove the chemical steps from our analytical scheme and use the speed and precision of the newer types of maschotrometer We already use auto-samplers for gas chromatography but now we need to bypass chemical steps . |
| 11 | It will be quite hard as well cos say something 's coming up behind you , the only way you can see is to go like that . |
| 12 | But the most important action that it can take is to enter into a programme with the IMF as soon as possible , on the back of which it will gain access to many western funds . |