Example sentences of "[adj] it can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The larger the telescope , the more light it can collect , and the higher the magnification which can be employed . |
| 2 | Ecstasy 's been described as the next best thing to an orgasm , so if your life feels empty it can appear to fill that gap quite nicely . ’ |
| 3 | I like a picture to be fairly full as if it is too empty it can become boring to look at after a few months , but it is very easy to get carried away with all your lovely pressed flowers and try to fit them all into one picture — using too many flowers looks just as bad as not using enough . |
| 4 | If it 's very dark it can have a natural protection equivalent to a SPF 15 suncream . |
| 5 | If the interviewee is very nervous it can help to ask some questions which can readily be answered with a yes or no , this provides the opportunity to adjust the tension . |
| 6 | Even at its most basic it can break up a plain stocking stitch garment or it can be used as an all-over pattern there are numerous ways of arranging the cables to form different patterns . |
| 7 | Since form and function are related to living things , when the information in an illustration is incorrect it can take more work in the long run to get the thing to look right . |
| 8 | I 'll check with dad before I start telling everybody to make sure it can go ahead |
| 9 | After all , if the Government can waste billions of pounds trying to bolster Norman Lamont 's disastrous ERM policies , I 'm sure it can find the money to keep Belinda 's dream alive . |
| 10 | But the electronics and computer systems dealer is currently reorganising the structure of its business to make sure it can address changing demands in its markets . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to be measured for some more boots , ’ Edward said , ‘ but you look a little shaken so I 'm sure it can wait until another day . ’ |
| 12 | The move must mean its confident it can produce the 10s it needs . |
| 13 | Morland which faces takeover and closure is confident it can defeat the unwanted bid by Greene King … |
| 14 | Whereas if the weather is bad ( frosts ) the vine might be affected by millerandage , if it is too good it can suffer from coulure . |
| 15 | But where the scheme is feasible it can relieve the pressures for all concerned . |
| 16 | Some said the syndicate that runs it is so powerful it can order the airline , and even the government , to do whatever it wants . |
| 17 | A weed that 's so poisonous it can kill horses and cattle is thriving , because chemicals once used to destroy it have been banned . |
| 18 | But she added : ’ As far as I am concerned it can go to hell now . ’ |
| 19 | Thus there is no incentive for the government to cheat on this way of conducting monetary policy — that is , to follow a different policy from the one that is announced-for it can fool people without cheating . |
| 20 | At one extreme it can mean a particular , rigidly constrained , language dependent structure , while at the other it can simply mean that subroutines or procedures are used . |
| 21 | When Ian becomes uptight it can affect his game . |
| 22 | If a court wishes to categorise an error as jurisdictional it can do so by using the ‘ wrong question ’ or ‘ irrelevant consideration ’ formula . |
| 23 | In general it can leave children with their natural curiosity expressed by the neverending ‘ why ’ questions of childhood , being squashed by the inability of adults to discuss in any other way what has really happened , and so the child learns that whatever has really happened is just too awful to be talked about . |
| 24 | One particular bedroom is so spacious it can accommodate up to four people and full of atmosphere , with an unusual brick vaulted ceiling . |
| 25 | Because the athlete 's heart is so muscular it can pump the same amount of blood with 50 beats per minute that the average heart pumps with 75 beats . |
| 26 | But when a cat is upset it can produce a whole variety of miaowing calls that sound different enough from one another to be classified as distinct vocalizations . |
| 27 | We will know by the first of April this year rather more than we know at the moment but you 're right it can go up and down , but there are lots of budgets in Social Services which are subject to this and it 's part of our job to try and manage that during the course of the year . |
| 28 | I mean , you think you give birth and you 're forgotten , I mean your health visitor visits your baby , and then you 've got the baby blues , and we we are trying to do something to get them to help and warn people about when they are pregnant it can happen because it does start then , not after you 've had the baby , it builds up and them wham , it hits you ! |
| 29 | Built in Luton at IBC and with a range of European Vauxhall and Opel engines that take local content to 80 per cent , they 'll be in about half of Vauxhall 's dealers with prices just up on the Suzuki Vitara for the Sport and just below the Isuzu Trooper and old Shogun for the five-door Across Europe , GM is optimistic it can sell 40,000 and has capacity for another 10,000 should Europe 's fastest-growing market segment require it . |
| 30 | In contrast to the psychological rationalization , an ideological rationalization can refer to the socially shared content of ideology : in particular it can refer to the son of ideology , which seeks to explain the social world by making it seem rational . |