Example sentences of "it can [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can momentarily blunt a thirst , but not altogether cut it . |
| 2 | When making a care order it can also make a contact order under s34. ( a ) Care orders A care order places a child in the care of a designated local authority which must then receive the child and keep him in care while the order remains in force ( s33(1) ) . |
| 3 | The program can provide statistics for any year or range of years , it can also generate a text file of your list ( in two formats ) that can be viewed with any text editor . |
| 4 | It can also offer a workforce which through experience is willing , adaptable and ready to retrain . |
| 5 | This kind of academic-theoretical drift can yield benefits in terms of knowledge and academic status , but it can also produce a reaction which attacks the increasing irrelevance or distortion of such studies . |
| 6 | It can also impose a constraining and reductionist interpretative grid on the political and cultural life of Afro-Caribbean , Asian and other minority communities in Britain today . |
| 7 | The traditional line item approach to budgeting , is , in this respect , expedient since it can easily accommodate a myriad of views as to what the objectives should be . |
| 8 | It can easily become a cause of friction , and is sometimes made the scapegoat for disagreement and discontent in other areas of a congregation 's life . |
| 9 | It can sometimes engender a state similar to that experienced by meditators . |
| 10 | And it can quickly produce a list of signs that need to be altered for a relief route or during a major road repair . |
| 11 | THE TROUBLE with all this ‘ comeback ’ and ‘ reunion ’ malarkey is it can often destroy a band 's reputation or , worse still , make you realise they were n't much cop in the first place . |
| 12 | When , in consequence , such background is presented by writers like ourselves , rather than by the official shepherd , it can often produce a reaction amounting to trauma , or a personal crisis of faith . |
| 13 | When the subject emerges from its temporary death into the position of the ‘ je ’ it can then assume a name . |
| 14 | Buddhists call such anxiety an ‘ unskilful state ’ because it can only embed a person in the ego he is seeking to transcend . |
| 15 | It can only establish a correlation between two behaviour patterns ; but a correlation can always be explained by both activities being caused by a third , unobserved activity . |
| 16 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is putting bells and whistles on its SparcBook notebook : it can now offer a colour active matrix display and up to 360Mb of disk . |
| 17 | But this teams needs more continuity than up to now and it can still do a lot better . |