Example sentences of "can it [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 How far can it travel on 1 litre ?
2 Not alone can it bring down careers but it has started Revolutions .
3 What good can it do ?
4 What can it Do ?
5 Can that be summed , can you can it do bars back analysis
6 Erm I mean some people say , quite wrongly , that it 's something that does n't take any part in the reaction but speeds it up , but how can it do that .
7 What can it do and therefore what can you do with it ?
8 Microsoft 's publicly announced commitment to multi media has spawned a host of products , but what is multi media and what can it do for you ?
9 What can it do ?
10 What can it do ?
11 Will it , can it do the background noise ?
12 in the region of twenty months and two years , erm , in those circumstances my Lord er the issue must arise in the interim er is er able er to re-claim money for the central fund , these are monies that are as your Lordship knows under article ten , payable forthwith on demand and in the interim can it rely on the statutory effect of section fourteen of the act
13 And can it repeat its success in Europe ?
14 Another noncommittal song , as Franky 's had been , and she thought : Quite , what can it matter , forty , fifty , who cares ?
15 What can it matter now ?
16 Who can it matter to ? ’
17 ‘ For if art is freedom of the spirit , how can it exist within the oppressors ? ’
18 A number of important examples from the history of religious thought help us to probe further the nature of religious belief Can it bear the interpretation which I have tried to place upon it ?
19 What other evidence is there of man 's use of the landscape in these early periods , and what can it tell us ?
20 Does a certain relationship retain its explanatory power for a number of countries rather than just for one — can it stand up to a comparative analysis ?
21 Nor can it cope with the more general interdisciplinary and modular patterns which have emerged in the last two decades ; and it is university-biased in its assumption that the basic academic unit is the subject-department , whereas composite departments offering broader programmes of study are common in the polytechnics and colleges .
22 And in any case what can it mean to murder a man for spitting in one 's face and yet feel no spite towards him ?
23 Can it mean whatever its users choose it to mean ?
24 The jury must be satisfied that a significant proportion of the likely readership would be guided along the path of corruption : " Clearly s2 can not mean all persons ; nor can it mean any one person , for there are individuals who may be corrupted by almost anything .
25 How much can it conduct through ?
26 Nor can it lift a man unaided from his melancholy .
27 How can it make sense not to promote two clubs from the Conference next season to bring the Fourth Division up to 24 clubs .
28 What difference can it make now ? ’
29 Neither can it make a specific issue or prohibited steps order so as to require a child to be accommodated by a local authority as this would in effect allow the authority to take the child into care without necessarily satisfying the s31 criteria ( s9(5) ( b ) ) .
30 Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ?
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