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

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1 It can both suggest that an effect previously believed to exist does not exist and that one thought not to exist does exist .
2 It can also happen that a Pump Wagon is obliged to move into friendly troops , although this is rare as you can move the machine as you wish .
3 It can also happen that a speaker is interrupted and leaves a tone-unit incomplete — for example , lacking a tonic syllable .
4 And in so doing it can often convey that a past is not a thing to be discovered .
5 It can certainly happen that a head might at the same time be expected to manage the school democratically by the staff , deferentially by the governors , assertively by the local authority and pliantly by parents .
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