Example sentences of "it can [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 2 | Taboo is contagious ; it can move from the prohibited act to a person , and by extension the taboo can be displaced on to material objects which become transmitters of taboo . |
| 3 | Theoretically , it can serve as a source of ideas and insights which are of potential relevance for the formulation of principles : ideas emerging from disciplines devoted to the study of language and learning which might bear upon the definition of language as subject . |
| 4 | We consider below the implications this result has for policy , and in chapter 6 we show how it can serve as the basis for an empirical test of the model . |
| 5 | It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification . |
| 6 | Rainbow says it can serve as an alternative to Sun 's internal host ID . |
| 7 | It can cater for a wide variety of activities , aerobics , badminton , football , martial arts , weight training and 50+ . |
| 8 | — it can export its product for sale in the foreign country — it can appoint a foreign company to manufacture its product under licence — it can invest in the foreign country ( i.e. obtain premises , plant and workforce there ) and manufacture its own product abroad . |
| 9 | It can aim for a high probability of having the right word somewhere in the cohort without worrying too much about the size of the cohort . |
| 10 | The more torque an engine has , the bigger load it can pull in the same gear or the higher gear it can use for a given load . |
| 11 | To what then is the human psychobiological system adapted and what are the limits to which it can adjust without an excessive strain leading ultimately to reduced reproductive ability ? |
| 12 | It means ‘ to give a bit more ’ and reflects the love that Creole and Cajun people have for their cuisine , but it can refer to a helping of food , a cookery tip , or even just giving more care and attention to an everyday dish . |
| 13 | It can refer to the growth of influence of the natural and social sciences as bodies of knowledge which underpin practice in fields such as medicine , pharmacy , agriculture , engineering , architecture or social work ; it can refer to the increased importance of mathematics or computing in some fields ; it can refer to the attempt to develop models or theories of practice itself , for example in the fields of management , nursing or teaching , or it may simply reflect the enlargement of the off-the-job element in professional education . |
| 14 | It can refer to the growth of influence of the natural and social sciences as bodies of knowledge which underpin practice in fields such as medicine , pharmacy , agriculture , engineering , architecture or social work ; it can refer to the increased importance of mathematics or computing in some fields ; it can refer to the attempt to develop models or theories of practice itself , for example in the fields of management , nursing or teaching , or it may simply reflect the enlargement of the off-the-job element in professional education . |
| 15 | It can refer to the growth of influence of the natural and social sciences as bodies of knowledge which underpin practice in fields such as medicine , pharmacy , agriculture , engineering , architecture or social work ; it can refer to the increased importance of mathematics or computing in some fields ; it can refer to the attempt to develop models or theories of practice itself , for example in the fields of management , nursing or teaching , or it may simply reflect the enlargement of the off-the-job element in professional education . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It can distinguish between a tin full of water and one that is empty , between rock and flesh . |
| 18 | In uncluttered water , these discharges create a symmetrical electric field around the fish which it can sense with a series of receptors in its skin . |
| 19 | If the agouti finds one , it is likely to find far more than it can eat at a single sitting . |
| 20 | Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade . |
| 21 | Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade . |
| 22 | I realised why I was wrong about good theatre , about how it can enthrall in a way cinema and television rarely does . |
| 23 | This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines . |
| 24 | Presumably you can it can cost to an existing life policy |
| 25 | But if the puffin is aware of the pirate in good time , it can accelerate to a speed the skua can not match . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the Government is doing not as badly , nor Labour as well , as it can appear amid the heady enthusiasm of a conference . |
| 27 | Sun reckons it can succeed in the PC business because the market is changing . |
| 28 | It can start as the result of a chill . |
| 29 | I know all about that scene and what it can do to a man . ’ |
| 30 | Until fairly recently I do n't think people have understood the design process or what it can do for the success of their companies . |