Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] it can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it did it for them it can do it for me ! ’ |
| 2 | One of the key benefits of the move will be to give Enterprise Training access to a professional marketing department through which it can promote awareness of its services to employers . |
| 3 | The imposition of colonial rule by the metropolitan bourgeoisie requires the creation of a state apparatus ‘ through which it can exercise dominion over all the indigenous social classes in the colony ’ . |
| 4 | It has spiracles along its side through which it can breathe , but it neither feeds nor excretes . |
| 5 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 6 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 7 | It is also considering what it can do to meet the demand for more information by such measures as explanatory videos , evening classes or workplace clinics . |
| 8 | In spite of this , advertisers , agencies and researchers persist in pushing the interpretation of recall well beyond the limits of what it can tell them . |
| 9 | Drawbacks : Expensive but , in terms of what it can do , this microwave is good enough to replace a conventional oven ( although remember cooking space is limited in that you could n't , say , do the roast and vegetables at the same time ) . |
| 10 | I use it only because of what it can become in later stages of evolution : the power of a snake 's fang , for instance , to propagate ( by its indirect consequences on snake survival ) DNA coding for fangs . |
| 11 | The committee went on to recommend ‘ some form of overall plan towards which the authority will work and against which it can measure its achievement ’ . |
| 12 | The reasons for doing this may be that the animal maximises its chances of mating with somebody with whom it can have offspring while at the same time minimising the ill-effects of inbreeding . |
| 13 | The endemic Hong Kong cascade frog has evolved suction pads on the end of each toe with which it can cling to the slippery rocks when the flash-floods strike . |
| 14 | High oxygen levels are not important , for the fish has an air bladder with which it can breathe air . |
| 15 | The government has instruments , particularly monetary and debt policy , with which it can offset the aggregate effects of taxes . |
| 16 | We now know that every particle has an antiparticle , with which it can annihilate . |
| 17 | Proud of the speed with which it can run Windows 3.1 applications on Sparc systems using its SunPC hardware and software combination , SunSelect vice president and general manager Carl Ledbetter could still not resist speculating that future technology for running PC applications from Sun would ‘ go way beyond the current generation , without the need for a card ’ . |
| 18 | Though the most successful Welsh language programme on S4C , its daily audience of an average 200,000 ( almost half Wales 's Welsh-speaking population ) is a drop in the ocean compared with what it can attract on BBC2 . |
| 19 | Law facilitates commercial activity by providing structures within which it can take place . |
| 20 | Each species ' range is determined by the area within which it can outbreed potential rivals because it is better adapted to that set of conditions : |
| 21 | The Robot Drill works by gripping the sides of its own hole , and anchoring itself until the bit has made space in which it can move on . |
| 22 | A captive giraffe has a right to a cage in which it can stand straight up … |
| 23 | It is the Board 's intention to identify ways in which it can extend examination options for secretarial staff . |
| 24 | It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food . |
| 25 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 26 | However , it is clear that calcium has a multiplicity of effects within the cell , and there are other ways in which it can affect the synaptic membrane . |
| 27 | The New Testament describes the presence and effects of prejudice , and in strong terms describes the way in which it can contribute to conflict . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It 's an area in which IT can play a leading role , and has rekindled interest in workflow and other document management systems . |
| 30 | On the other hand , putting a time or place adverbial , such as today or on the shelf , say , at the beginning of the clause , carries more meaning because it is the result of choice : there are other positions in which it can occur . |