Example sentences of "it can [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 2 | It can home in on a car from almost half a mile away . |
| 3 | It can travel back to a time 200 million years ago , long before human beings existed . |
| 4 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 5 | biopsy on Tuesday , and it can take up to a week |
| 6 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |
| 7 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |