Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er er erm and if we can if if they can all use is it |
| 2 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
| 3 | In an attempt to compensate for this and to represent what I can only assume is a minority interest for your readership , my entry consists of a substantial majority of jazzers . |
| 4 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 5 | The quality buildings will be let — Broadgate is now 95 per cent leased — but slowly developers will realise they have to convert the bad space which I can only say is a lot of classified DIY . ’ |
| 6 | One recipe that I can fulsomely recommend is the Abbacchio all Cacciatore , for its simplicity in the cooking and its all-round excellence on the plate . |
| 7 | Take this , take this , do this , do that , you can fucking kiss is better ! |
| 8 | What we can not tell is whether the trends to increasing divorce and remarriage will be a force for increasing the solitary living or for extending the range of family contacts available to the divorced . |
| 9 | What the questionnaire responses can not tell is how many individual pupils miss out on information relating to these topics throughout the whole of their school career . |
| 10 | Something inside me which I can not stop is whirling me faster and faster past beauty into oblivion . |
| 11 | All that liberals can not tolerate is pretension to infallibility . |
| 12 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 13 | What they can not do is to have it both ways . |
| 14 | What television can not do is convey the rise and fall of the holes and show how undulating the land is . |
| 15 | What instrumental techniques can not do is evaluate the sensory attributes of an odour , in particular its acceptability , nor can they compete with the human nose as far as sensitivity to most odours is concerned . |
| 16 | What a doctor can not do is administer a drug for which the sole purpose is to end life . |
| 17 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 18 | What these animals can not do is localize sounds independently of their position relative to the animal 's body . |
| 19 | " The one thing Parliament can not do is to bind its successors " ( Maughan L.J. ) . |
| 20 | What archaeology can not do is tell us the names of the people and what great deeds they did , how they influenced each other , and what they thought and believed in — these are things that only historical evidence can tell us . |
| 21 | One thing we can not do is to reject Gettier counter-examples as contrived and artificial . |
| 22 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 23 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |
| 24 | What we can not do is to rely on their happening . |
| 25 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 26 | What a pleasant manner can not do is bridge the social gap , not in class but in age . |
| 27 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
| 28 | What he can not do is anything more positive . |
| 29 | That is to say , what it can not handle is … mere confusion , chaos . |
| 30 | The only fastening he can not reach is the cuff on the unaffected arm . |