Example sentences of "[verb] it can [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says it can mean premature death . |
| 2 | The navy reckons it can buy updated versions of the McDonnell Douglas/Northrop A-18 for around $35m each — less capable , perhaps , than Grumman says its F-14 derivative would be , but with the defence budget under tremendous pressure , the ‘ sticker price ’ makes all the difference . |
| 3 | This fear of cats , or ailurophobia to give it its technical name , is rare , but when it does occur it can cause untold misery for the sufferer and it is worth examining how it begins and how it can be cured . |
| 4 | He reckons the bank has shown it can attract personal savings from building societies and is confident the new NatWest Life company , a joint venture with Clerical Medical , will reap rewards . |
| 5 | China has ambitious plans in space technology — and it has shown it can launch nuclear warheads . |
| 6 | WHEN the mammalian proto-oncogene bcl-2 is overexpressed it can protect various types of cells both from normal and from experimentally induced apoptosis , but the molecular mechanisms involved are unknown . |
| 7 | If the court does not wish to intervene it can achieve this result by saying that there was no error at all , by characterising the error as one within jurisdiction , or by defining jurisdiction itself more narrowly than in Anisminic . |
| 8 | Inhaling it can cause immediate death ; the effect has been described as comparable in speed with an acute cerebral haemorrhage or coronary thrombosis . |
| 9 | Hawking thinks it can go either way but we will never know . |
| 10 | By reducing ground stations and cutting staff , the company thinks it can run both sets of satellites more efficiently . |
| 11 | I think it can work that way , but I think many of us have a horror of a future picture of thirty kids sitting at thirty terminals , you know , pressing keys without any personal interaction with the teacher or with each other . |
| 12 | With the help of a tanker It can get to the Falklands and back and a stretch version , means it can carry larger loads and go further . |
| 13 | On skis , means it can reach hostile locations in the arctic . |
| 14 | This means it can support integrated applications with any system conforming to the standard . |
| 15 | Times change and now it 's told Univel Inc it will pick up UnixWare but not before UnixWare proves it can garner some volume outside of Compaq . |
| 16 | Japan 's fisheries agency claims it can kill 2,000 minke whales a year without harming the survival of the species , and it recently launched an advertising campaign on the benefits of whale meat . |
| 17 | Although there appears to be little synergy between Unit 's existing business and engineering , the group believes it can introduce better management systems in the target company . |