Example sentences of "it can [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Westminster Government 's small majority , its situation is precarious and especially so in Scotland , where it is supposed to be doing all it can to mend its battered fences . |
| 2 | It reaches 12″ long and has been bred in captivity — but in outdoor ponds where it can burrow its distinctive hiding place in the bank . |
| 3 | If you are an enthusiastic gardener you 'll know how valuable a convenient work space is and how it can revitalise your whole approach to gardening throughout the year . |
| 4 | Grown men are still aware of this potential loss of self , and many have an instinctive fear of the ‘ devouring ’ quality of women , since it can threaten their personal integrity . |
| 5 | It can carry its 101 passengers at more than 80 km/h across waves 1.5 m high . |
| 6 | The 1992 UN conference on the environment could be the right place for an analytical look at what the world needs to do to ensure that it can feed its vulnerable populations in the next country . |
| 7 | To do this , it will have a derived demand for manufacturing equipment , components , steel , lubricants and the like , so that it can satisfy its own customers . |
| 8 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 9 | It can hinder their proper development . |
| 10 | The hedgehog can not dig itself in when threatened but it can protect its soft parts by rolling up into a tight ball . |
| 11 | It can pass its calm temperament to its offspring when crossed with the more excitable Africander and Brahman . |
| 12 | The first task with a coin , as with any other artefact , is to try to establish its date and attribute it to a place of manufacture and authority , since we must know where and when it was made before it can give us any information about the past . |
| 13 | The basic species type , Rosa pimpinellifolia ( or , as it used to be called , R. spinosissima ) grows very well in most soils , but flourishes particularly in light sandy soils in which it can indulge its natural habit of spreading to form large prickly thickets by means of underground runners and suckers . |
| 14 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 15 | The distance is just over fifty miles but it can take him three hours to get there . |
| 16 | It can withdraw its guilty pleas and go to trial . |
| 17 | When reclaiming such land , it may be necessary to provide the first pioneer crops with a direct injection of nutrients through chemical fertilizers but it should always be remembered that the aim is to build up the life in the soil so that it can provide its own fertility within the land potential . |
| 18 | Indeed , it has been argued that the government is the most likely source of excess demand inflation : through its policy measures , it can finance its own spending by raising taxes , by borrowing or by printing money . |
| 19 | The company anticipates that the personal communicator will open up new markets and will prove an ideal base to which it can add its own technology — the Digital European Cordless Telecommunications system . |
| 20 | Try not to respond the moment it ceases as this suggests to the dog that it can get its own way by behaving in this fashion . |
| 21 | Even if legitimate authority is limited by the condition that its directives are not binding if clearly wrong , and I wish to express no opinion on whether it is so limited , it can play its mediating role . |
| 22 | ‘ It is of great importance that the UK should not appear to turn its back on Europe , so that it can play its full part in negotiations , ’ the peers say in a report rushed out yesterday ahead of the Strasbourg talks . |
| 23 | Self help , if it can overcome its middle class bias , has considerable potential , but government support for the principle is conditional upon self help groups not threatening the status quo . |
| 24 | Like most snakes it can disarticulate its lower jaw from its upper when confronted with a particularly large meal , but it does more than that . |
| 25 | It can let its guilty pleas stand and then take its chances in court . |
| 26 | If it can teach us that love is the most powerful force in the world , we shall not have lived for nothing . |
| 27 | As we shall see in Chapter 5 , under the present arrangements the Bank agrees always to provide assistance in such circumstances , though as a monopoly buyer of bills/monopoly supplier of liquidity it can impose its own terms . |
| 28 | The ostrich , on the other hand , will eventually be able to return to the spot it knows so well , where it can resume its parental duties . |