Example sentences of "[coord] it can [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insurance company can check ex post in some cases ( after a theft ) or it can screen prior to accepting risk ( health insurance ) . |
| 2 | Moreover , the way that question is answered can change the course of history , it can condemn millions to bloody war , or it can do much to ensure that they are spared that misery . |
| 3 | The government can seek greater efficiency ; it can squeeze expenditure across the board ; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing , and try to eliminate whole categories of spending . |
| 4 | It can encourage foreign tourists to spend their money or it can encourage foreign investment which will provide income . |
| 5 | Co-operation can focus mainly on the R , the D , or it can couple joint R&D with the joint production and marketing of the output of that R&D , and it can be structured around sharing costs , restrictions put on the other R&D activities of participants , and rules which govern the production and marketing of the output affected by the joint R&D project . |
| 6 | It can either simply be written somewhere else , or it can become involved in some ‘ action ’ . |
| 7 | Erm and er I was wondering if Freud did that or if that 's what Freud was saying , that , that , that religion by nature must be repressed or that a minority as the nature of minority is , is er it works harder when it 's repressed or it can become stronger . |
| 8 | In addition to its magical effects , the clock can lash out with its pendulum chains ( which are amazingly ‘ elastic ’ ) , and it can generate illusory Clone Images of itself . |
| 9 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 10 | It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads . |
| 11 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 12 | This is in miniature the classic blueprint detective story , and it can give more pleasure by virtue of its clues coming closer to the final revelation than sometimes the full-length affair does . |
| 13 | That structure can now be diverse , based on local choices , and it can place tremendous emphasis on community identity . |
| 14 | There are very large individual differences in this and it can affect each of the stages so far mentioned . |
| 15 | It can take large numbers of rabbits that live above the ground in dense woodland and it can do that same job in wooded areas where ferreting is not allowed because of other interests . |
| 16 | Our silence offers God an opportunity to speak to the soul and it can provide blessed relief from over-activity and the torrent of speech and song with which we assail both his ears and our own . |
| 17 | There are assumptions made in the richer , Western countries , the donor nations , about what people need , and they 're saddled with it , and it can have long-term , disastrous effects , the wrong kind of aid . |
| 18 | In the earliest phase of a mental disorder , relatives feel puzzled and bewildered by what is happening , and it can take many months or even years before deteriorating social function gives way to overt symptoms which can be clearly interpreted as mental illness . |
| 19 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 20 | There are particular muscles which seem to carry most of the burden , and it can take several sessions to help them become relaxed . |
| 21 | This bringing of the people of God back to personal thankfulness for their place in Christ is one of the vital functions of worship , and it can take some time . |
| 22 | When friends fall out the mess can be considerable and it can take some time for the wounds to heal . |
| 23 | Now in the scriptures , we 're gon na have a look at a few because the scriptures counsel us time and again , er that we are living in difficult times , we know that and it can become difficult to stay spiritually alert and awake and that 's why constantly throughout the scriptures you 'll find that we 're er counselled and encouraged to stay awake , stay awake and as we sang stand firm and , and grow mighty spirits , the first one is in Romans chapter thirteen . |
| 24 | You can read it and not hear it and it can seem banal . |
| 25 | ‘ By contrast , talking to small and medium-sized businesses in the South-East I often find that they have only ever experienced one recession the current one and it can prove fatal . ’ |
| 26 | But Downing Street made it clear that it was the Cabinet which set the £244.5 billion spending target — and it can increase that figure if it wants to . |
| 27 | There can be non-commodity notated music ( eighteenth-century court symphonies ; some 1960s avant-garde ‘ happenings ’ ) and it can produce non-hierarchical , relatively improvisatory performance ( ‘ shape-note ’ singing in the southern United States ) . |
| 28 | This is an accelerator constructed for nuclear structure research using heavy ions , and it can produce exotic nuclei . |
| 29 | Thus , for example , if the market for a firm 's products is buoyant and it can sell all it makes , management would normally be reluctant to provoke action that would disrupt output . |
| 30 | And it can determine certain things Right ! |