Example sentences of "[vb -s] that it can [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 2 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The company hopes that it can persuade most of the surplus employees to go quietly , accepting voluntary redundancy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Very quickly in , what , what can I say , I mean it 's an appalling situation where you have a political party that believes that it can solve all the ills of these the country that it has created in the last twelve years , I hope on the explicit though I tend to think renunciations are fairly clear here , but erm I hope you 'll listen . |