Example sentences of "can [verb] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What should become apparent is that , while companies do make substantial financial contributions , a more important contribution they can make is expertise and management skills . ’ |
| 2 | All they can give is advice ’ |
| 3 | All they can give is advice . ’ |
| 4 | The best we can expect is destruction , or a sudden running-down of an establishment or extensive rebuilding on a different plan or scale . |
| 5 | ‘ All we can do is keep pace on this side until we see what will happen . |
| 6 | And the first thing you can do is fetch water so that I may wash off the city dust before I change my dress . " |
| 7 | Erm another , another thing you can claim is relief from paying poll tax . |
| 8 | But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ? |
| 9 | Well it 's the same as our place , a that paper is as far as I can see is jet black underneath ! |
| 10 | All you 're en all you can insist on , all you can demand is money back . |
| 11 | Erm but all you can demand is money back . |
| 12 | ‘ The only edible concoction Mrs Hopkins can produce is stew . ’ |
| 13 | If the academy can not itself produce literature , and if even criticism can be written outside of it by novelists , poets , and literary journalists , then what it , and only it , can produce is theory . |
| 14 | The best it can offer is bed and breakfast . |
| 15 | But since justice is not justice unless even-handed , so that one man gets roughly the same treatment from the courts as another in comparable circumstances , and since the law requires that compensation be awarded for physical injuries , and the only kind of compensation which the courts can award is money , the courts are compelled to make a pragmatic solution . |
| 16 | The other thing you can learn is style . |