Example sentences of "[coord] 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 | In addition to its magical effects , the clock can lash out with its pendulum chains ( which are amazingly ‘ elastic ’ ) , and it can generate illusory Clone Images of itself . |
| 5 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 6 | This is in miniature the classic blueprint detective story , and it can give more pleasure by virtue of its clues coming closer to the final revelation than sometimes the full-length affair does . |
| 7 | That structure can now be diverse , based on local choices , and it can place tremendous emphasis on community identity . |
| 8 | Our silence offers God an opportunity to speak to the soul and it can provide blessed relief from over-activity and the torrent of speech and song with which we assail both his ears and our own . |
| 9 | In the earliest phase of a mental disorder , relatives feel puzzled and bewildered by what is happening , and it can take many months or even years before deteriorating social function gives way to overt symptoms which can be clearly interpreted as mental illness . |
| 10 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 11 | There are particular muscles which seem to carry most of the burden , and it can take several sessions to help them become relaxed . |
| 12 | This bringing of the people of God back to personal thankfulness for their place in Christ is one of the vital functions of worship , and it can take some time . |
| 13 | When friends fall out the mess can be considerable and it can take some time for the wounds to heal . |
| 14 | But Downing Street made it clear that it was the Cabinet which set the £244.5 billion spending target — and it can increase that figure if it wants to . |
| 15 | This is an accelerator constructed for nuclear structure research using heavy ions , and it can produce exotic nuclei . |
| 16 | And it can determine certain things Right ! |
| 17 | And it can arouse understandable hostility among those who fear " the people " and their aspirations . |
| 18 | The apparatus in both UA1 and UA2 can not specifically identify electrons , but it can eliminate other possibilities . |
| 19 | Yeah but lary lary actually means loud like , but it can mean loud clothes or loud mouth . |
| 20 | LET YOUR MONEY DO THE WALKING The number of new residents a tax haven can accommodate is limited , but it can hold any amount of companies , trusts and offshore funds |
| 21 | Gas and air produces a lightheaded feeling that takes the edge off the pain but it can make some women feel nauseous . |
| 22 | It typically leads to unusually dry weather in the western Pacific Tropics and heavy rains on the desert coasts of western America , but it can have wider effects . |
| 23 | Bad breath , or halitosis , is one of those ailments that often provokes ribald comments but it can cause intense embarrassment to the sufferer . |
| 24 | But it can take many months and , as Wendy realised , the longer she waited , the harder it would be to trace Eva . |
| 25 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |
| 26 | ESA has already paid for a launch on Ariane , but it can transfer this money to cover the launch of the Giotto mission to Halley 's comet in 1985 . |