Example sentences of "it can [adv] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main purpose of charity events is to raise money for them and rightly so , but it can not go amiss if our reputation is enhanced in the process . |
| 2 | As it lives on a diet of poll findings , it can not perform better than they do . |
| 3 | ‘ We believe that in tumours this particular gene , which is located on chromosome 17 , is faulty , so that it can not function normally and a cancer develops . |
| 4 | Although there is enough food there to feed 800,000 starving people for one month , most of it can not get through because of looters and bandits . |
| 5 | It can not happen not because the forms of negation are mindless , but precisely because they are too mindful of meaning and significance , constantly reminded of rationality and purposive thought : |
| 6 | And it can all fall through because theirs is falling through or they ca n't get out when you want and that can go on for Can it not ? |
| 7 | What makes them interesting is the interplay between depressed singer and band that is capable of creating subtle guitar and synth textures , providing languid settings for a piece like Free , then pushing into country , or a blues riff ( on Get Out Of My Mirror ) , and proves that it can really stretch out when given a chance , as at the end of New Day Dawning . |
| 8 | It can often arise even when people are a mere few pounds overweight . |
| 9 | The external demands on government are such that it can often act only as arbiter between competing demands and respond , under guidance from civil servants , to international events and trends over which it has no direct influence . |
| 10 | It can certainly tear down and destroy . |