Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [indef pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus teachers , on one side , can know everything about the technicalities of curriculum , pedagogy , the use of resources and professional standards . |
| 2 | YOU can do something about the situation , YOU can take personal responsibility for conserving the worlds finite resources , by not consuming meat and animal products . |
| 3 | " We want to bring it to the attention of communities that they can do something about the rubbish in their streets , " said UNEP 's Richard Lumbe , launching the campaign in Nairobi . |
| 4 | ‘ The past is the past , and you can do nothing about it , but you can do something about the future , and I am very optimistic . |
| 5 | Notice that the enzyme can do nothing about the difference , h , between the initial and final energy engineer can , by digging a tunnel , reduce the height to which one must climb to travel between them , but if there is a difference of altitude between the cities he can not alter it . |
| 6 | Sherlock Holmes is a very clever detective , but he can do nothing about the weather . |
| 7 | Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after . |
| 8 | ‘ In the same way in which a person 's job can say something about the way he values himself and sees himself as being valued , there was considerable talk [ in the group ] about assessment and much time was devoted to the problems of time and motion and job evaluation . |
| 9 | If we know what animals with cytochrome oxidase blobs in their visual cortices can see that those lacking them can not we can learn something about the functions of the blob system . |