Example sentences of "[conj] it can [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government can seek greater efficiency ; it can squeeze expenditure across the board ; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing , and try to eliminate whole categories of spending . |
| 2 | It can encourage foreign tourists to spend their money or it can encourage foreign investment which will provide income . |
| 3 | Co-operation can focus mainly on the R , the D , or it can couple joint R&D with the joint production and marketing of the output of that R&D , and it can be structured around sharing costs , restrictions put on the other R&D activities of participants , and rules which govern the production and marketing of the output affected by the joint R&D project . |
| 4 | All forms of the disease begin as tuberculosis of the lung although it can affect other organs including the membranes encasing the brain and spinal cord , the bones , joints and kidneys . |
| 5 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |
| 6 | In Safrane , the engine has been deliberately tuned to favour torque output with the result that it can deliver 115 lb-ft from 1,500 rpm upwards — so producing an extremely flexible power curve . |
| 7 | Intuition is not enough when a school has to give assurances of quality and has to prove that it can control that quality . |
| 8 | In a democratic society , this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science , so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts . |
| 9 | I urge the local authority in Durham to develop a relationship with housing associations so that it can make faster progress in meeting the problems to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 10 | If multimedia has a future , it has nothing to do with the fact that it can do clever things . |
| 11 | To be fair , the government of Hong Kong has such pressing social problems on its hands that it can spare little time either for passing or , equally important , enforcing conservation laws . |
| 12 | Capitalism is not yet so triumphant that it can disregard moral dissent . |
| 13 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 14 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 15 | PR must then be a reasonable autonomous unit so that it can serve all departments equally . |
| 16 | But do you think that there 's some way that the NEA can be reformed or changed so that it can serve that purpose ? |
| 17 | One of the Packman 's most important claims is that it can handle all types and sizes of chemical pack . |
| 18 | It has retained the strong legs and good feet of a draught animal , so that it can travel long distances over rough terrain on the range , and it has proved able to withstand the stress of drought better than other Bos taurus breeds . |
| 19 | Most work has gone into tuning the machines for graphics work : the company reckons that it can out-perform conventional video adaptor boards with a combination of a Mach32 graphics accelerator , a 32-bit linear frame buffer and up to 2Mb of fast video RAM . |
| 20 | Net is also a general term , not specific to working girls ( prostitutes ) so that it can facilitate other ministries in the future . |
| 21 | Starting with 30 monitoring points , the system offers massive flexibility due to the fact that it can substitute two wires , punctuated by individually programmed chips , for the massive bunch of wires which would be needed by a conventional system . |
| 22 | A written sentence , on the other hand , can more easily be HYPOTACTIC , which means that it can have complex relations between its parts — one inside another , rather than just one after another . |
| 23 | In our electronic technology the discrete , digital locations have only two states , conventionally represented as 0 and 1 although you can think of them as high and low , on and off , up and down : all that matters is that they should be distinct from one another , and that the pattern of their states can be ‘ read out ’ so that it can have some influence on something . |
| 24 | Instead , try to pull over if possible and find somewhere to take the dog out of the car , in its travelling cage , so that it can have fresh air . |
| 25 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 26 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 27 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
| 28 | When temperate forests are cleared , the remaining ground is rich in organic matter , which means that it can withstand repeated ploughing , and supports good crops . |
| 29 | It has proved of benefit when used against herpes viruses or viral hepatitis for example , and researchers at the MRC 's Common Cold Unit in Wiltshire have shown that it can provide effective protection against colds . |
| 30 | The search for plurality both evaluates the text and yet leaves it intact so that it can yield more possibilities . |