Example sentences of "can [adv] do [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as we 've got that and peace of mind we can perhaps do things outside of what money can bring you . |
| 2 | yes , so , so , that you can only do education part time . |
| 3 | These amount , as we saw , to the belief that many social phenomena are to be explained as the outcome of actions performed by individuals or groups , and the view that groups can only do things if individuals do . |
| 4 | You can only do claims to five thousand pound ca n't you ? |
| 5 | She , she 's there on Social Security which means she can only do part time education because if you 're on the Social Security you have to available to do a job |
| 6 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 7 | In any case it costs nothing to hear it on FM radio these days , and it can only do orchestras good . |
| 8 | ‘ You can only do business in Aberdeen , Inverness and Stirling by being in Aberdeen , Inverness and Stirling , ’ says Mitchell . |
| 9 | No brief summary can possibly do justice to the depth of the analysis ; but it has already been tried out on some uncommonly hard-nosed customers , and elicited their approbation . |
| 10 | We can hardly do justice to the wide scope of psychological theories here , but there are some basic ideas and assumptions which underlie such theorizing . |
| 11 | A summary can hardly do justice to the corpus as a whole , but it is easy enough to point to the settlement 's principal weaknesses . |
| 12 | Vigorous thumb work produces these nearly perfect ( arithmetically speaking ) examples : A fortnight with B&B accommodation in Alanya in Turkey is offered by Intasun ( 0274 736403 ) at £251pp , though they can also do Alanya self catering at £199 . |
| 13 | No one can really do business on 40 quid a week . |
| 14 | ‘ Slide ’ opens the set , all big chords and yeah , slide guitar ; ‘ Smile ’ , with a dangerously narcotic and very BIG bassline that takes control over your entire body , is brain-bruisingly splendid , as is ‘ Hey Sister ’ , the song that proves that they can do fast ones , they can do slow ones and they can then do ones with car-alarm noises in the middle . |
| 15 | You can certainly do group suggestive therapy and here we touch on another point that erm Joy reminds us of and Freud makes quite a bit on the book the parallel between being in a group and being hypnotized , because the , the , the role of the hypnotist is to take over completely |
| 16 | Historical metaphors can never do justice to the complexity of a country 's past , but at this early stage of my trip I felt I was beginning to discern a snake 's energy and inertia in Peru 's past . |
| 17 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |