Example sentences of "it can [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NRPB now intends to begin an epidemiological investigation across Britain to see if it can spot any increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer in areas under the night path of the radiation cloud that spread south-east from Windscale 25 years ago . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Unless it can pull some rabbits from a hat , the losing consortium , led by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas , will see the YF-23 ( which resembles its sleek and costly stablemate , the B-2 bomber ) consigned to a museum . |
| 4 | On the other hand it can isolate quiet pupils from the action , and very quick pupils can ignore slower ones without intentional cruelty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Men are n't taught about testicular cancer , yet it can affect any man between the ages of 15 and 45 . |
| 7 | On the other hand , a corporation can own property ; it can acquire rights and make itself liable under a contract ; it can be a trustee ; it can incur civil liability for wrongful acts , and even for those which involve a definite state of mind like fraud or malice . |
| 8 | It can detect sudden increases in water consumption , such as leaks . |
| 9 | It can develop as fast as a Charolais if fed appropriately and under ideal circumstances it can achieve similar weights within the same time span , especially if breeders are selective in their choice of stock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ian Rock , the chief executive , said yesterday : ‘ The group 's position is more stable than for some time , but it still requires a substantial improvement in the economy and a solution to the group 's gearing before it can achieve satisfactory returns on shareholders ’ funds . ’ |
| 12 | Even more importantly , it can achieve dramatic reductions in the amount of energy used . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In certain serious blood disorders it can invade other parts of the body , such as the lungs or central nervous system , with severe , if not fatal , consequences . |
| 15 | Net is also a general term , not specific to working girls ( prostitutes ) so that it can facilitate other ministries in the future . |
| 16 | However , very often the frame looks rather tatty and in definite need of some loving care before it can do proper justice to your work . |
| 17 | The makers claim a range of more than 1,000 miles is feasible from its 17.6 gallon tank — it can do 64 mpg at a steady 56 mph ( or 46.5 mpg at 75 mph , and 37.8 mpg on the urban cycle ) . |
| 18 | That structure can now be diverse , based on local choices , and it can place tremendous emphasis on community identity . |
| 19 | However , it would help the student if he were introduced to it briefly and with simplicity , not only because a knowledge of serialism is essential to an understanding of today 's music , but also because so many aspects of it can enrich other methods of composition , even in other styles and idioms . |
| 20 | It can create new advantages for innovators ; it can also erode the position of incumbents by altering the rules ' of supply and encouraging new entrants . |
| 21 | Unemployment does not only deny an adequate income , it can create deep crises of social identity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If he fails to judge the correct line of the fish 's swim , it can pass either side of him ; sometimes a frustrating arms length away . |
| 24 | Since this is a purely morphological description it can embrace all stages in development from compacted 8-cells to the 16- to 32-cell stage just prior to blastocoel formation . |
| 25 | However , as long as a system can recognize that this use of ‘ in the hand ’ implies that the hand is part of ‘ him ’ , it can avoid this kind of reasoning altogether and adopt a constraint propagation method to resolve both pronouns . |
| 26 | It can cover any number of things . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Thus it can represent that part of the real world that was modelled in the data analysis process . |
| 30 | ‘ We are committed to retaining the nuclear option for the future , provided the industry can demonstrate that nuclear generation is economic and provided it can meet rigorous standards of safety and environmental protection . ’ |