Example sentences of "it can [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would apparently prefer the company to go with high-performance machines of a Kingston design , and is doing whatever it can to sabotage and embarrass Austin . |
| 2 | Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will . |
| 3 | Television , it should be remembered , can conserve and celebrate just as it can abbreviate and denature . |
| 4 | The IRA should have no illusions that it can bomb and shoot its way to the conference table , for it can not . |
| 5 | However , it should not be allowed complete freedom to rule , since it can overwhelm and destroy . |
| 6 | Do not use jointing compound on plastic cisterns — it can soften and crack them . |
| 7 | It can record and turn into electrical impulses ‘ memories ’ of the past which he has found are stored in every object . |
| 8 | Tell them it can upset or offend other residents . |
| 9 | Although it can choose whether to sell bonds or Treasury bills , it can not decide just who is to purchase them — banks/discount houses , the general public or foreigners . |
| 10 | A good teacher will also show you how to relax your body when you have finished exercising , so that it can rest and refresh itself . |
| 11 | Dublin , Ohio-based Information Dimensions Inc will introduce DOCworks , a document management system for client-server environments : it can review and edit images , graphics and spreadsheets , and provides links into relational databases such as Oracle , Informix and Sybase ; DOCworks supports Novell Inc NetWare , PC/NFS and Digital Equipment Corp 's Pathworks protocols and it will run on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000s , Unisys Corp U6000s and IBM Corp 's RS/6000s . |
| 12 | It can review and edit images , graphics and spreadsheets , and provides links into relational databases such as Oracle , Informix and Sybase . |
| 13 | It can blow and snow for six weeks , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ People in warm offices in Brussels do n't understand that it can blow and snow for six weeks here ’ |
| 15 | It can enhance or suppress its magnitude . |
| 16 | It can retrieve and play audio from a CD-ROM in addition to text and graphics . |
| 17 | It can prohibit or impose conditions upon activities ; it can impose conditions upon or even revoke authorisation and it could petition for a winding-up of a society 's operation . |
| 18 | Used as a revision book it can prompt and encourage some self-questioning but it is too brief to use as a teaching document . |
| 19 | One who inherits a title whilst a Member of the House of Commons or a candidate for a seat in it can remain or become a Member for only one month before disclaiming . |
| 20 | Not only does it influence whether or not you fork out the requisite 65p , it can make or break a band . |
| 21 | Because it is not subject to the paramount law of a written constitution , it can make or unmake any law as it chooses . |
| 22 | IBM does everything it can to enable and ennoble this basic manager . |
| 23 | Without perception and inclination , reason has nothing to engage with ; when it does have them to engage with , it can criticize and guide . |
| 24 | When a woman 's voice is used freely and has power , it can sound and feel like a flow of light . |
| 25 | It can import and export AutoCad DXF file formats maintaining compatibility with other CAD software . |
| 26 | We all know how to use pens — we were taught how to use a pen in primary school — but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but it 's reading something which does n't look like letter of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 27 | We all know how to use pens , we were taught how to use pen in primary school , but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but is reading something which does n't look like letters of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 28 | I suppose one advantage of a computer is that it can store and remember a great deal of information . |
| 29 | For instance , it would like to know whether an endorsing company has to adopt everything COSE ratifies or whether it can pick and choose . |
| 30 | For instance , it would like to know whether an endorsing company has to adopt everything COSE ratifies or whether it can pick and choose . |