Example sentences of "they can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 2 | All they can give is advice ’ |
| 3 | All they can give is advice . ’ |
| 4 | This means the type of information they can give is often different from that of other artefacts . |
| 5 | The IMF and the World Bank are not inexhaustible cornucopias — all they can do is to dispense whatever they receive from wealthy governments , ie , from taxpayers . |
| 6 | ‘ All they can do is recommend a test . |
| 7 | ‘ The worst they can do is send us back tae Glasgow . ’ |
| 8 | Secondly , what they can do is further restrained by an interlocking web of assumptions , rules and regulations . |
| 9 | Horizon made the usual mistake of talking about computers that can ‘ correct spelling errors ’ , when in fact all they can do is flag words that are not in a dictionary . |
| 10 | All they can do is to look at the evidence and decide what they are going to believe . |
| 11 | All they can do is be at the radio station on time , and play their funky music whenever placed on a stage . |
| 12 | In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on . |
| 13 | What they can do is refuse to answer questions , not allow MPs to speak in the House , stop people going on visits overseas . |
| 14 | Informants can not , of course , be expected to quantify degrees of abnormality ; but what they can do is distinguish a fully normal sentence from one which is to some degree odd . |
| 15 | Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) . |
| 16 | All they can do is exchange one form of wage slavery' for another . |
| 17 | What they can do is to consider whether at the time the decision was made it was intended by the patient to apply in the changed situation . |
| 18 | All we and they can do is to resist the degeneration of a justified action of international collective security into a United States ' imperial ego-trip , to stop the affair getting further out of hand , and in doing so to prevent the UN , the only available base for world order , from falling into lasting discredit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All they can do is to ensure that the decision-maker did have some reasonable grounds for his action . |
| 21 | All they can do is set trend targets and reward or penalize according to the degree to which they are met . |
| 22 | All they can do is give a ‘ true and fair view ’ . |
| 23 | Since the note on this subject was published in the November Journal at p 372 , the Home Office have advised English JPs that they can not issue a certificate of good repute and of no previous bankruptcy as such , and that all they can do is to take a statutory declaration of good repute , etc , from the individual concerned . |
| 24 | He continued : ‘ With criminal trespass , all they can do is go down on a daily basis and charge people . |
| 25 | But what they can do is to ensure that the additional factors of instability , caused by the economic hardship produced by the moves to a market economy , are kept to a minimum . |
| 26 | There 's not a lot they can do is there ? |
| 27 | Not much they can do is there ? |
| 28 | These two guys are meant to be on a Gipsy Working Party , finding somewhere for the gipsies to live , and all they can do is argue about it . |
| 29 | Well , er we 're not saying they do n't , er , you , we , we went there to protest nuclear testing , we knew that er you know , we , that that , that protest would be opposed , but now that those people have been seized , er surely the very least they can do is inform us that they 're safe and well , and where they are and what is being intended ; that , that is not , er that is not too much to ask . |
| 30 | Maybe they have n't er been able to er find ways of talking to each other about those difficult things , and maybe they 've , they 've built up lots and lots of assumptions and resentments and disappointment , and they do n't know how to handle it , and they feel that the only thing they can do is to get out . |