Example sentences of "it can [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of these happens when the process can fail to terminate but there is no communication it can either accept or refuse . |
| 2 | It can thus check that it is on course . |
| 3 | It can not move and shoot in the same turn , except that it can be turned to face its intended target . |
| 4 | To fall , in , towards the nucleus it would have to lose all its energy , and this it can not do as it is continually absorbing energy from the ether which balances with the amount it naturally radiates . |
| 5 | In this context an assignment may be considered " terminated " , because it can not affect or be affected by the other process , and is free to terminate at any time . |
| 6 | It can not eat or drink . |
| 7 | The Department of National Heritage ( DNH ) says that it can not delay because otherwise exporters would fall foul of the tough penalties laid down by the Custom and Excise Management Act ( 1979 ) . |
| 8 | In many practical cases the program will be deterministic , in that it can not diverge and never has any choice over what to communicate or what to assign to its free variables . |
| 9 | Like first aid , it can not guarantee that you are going to be all right but it can certainly help you improve your chances . |
| 10 | Although the University will do its best to avoid increases in fees , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of your course . |
| 11 | All fees are subject to annual review and although the University will do its best to avoid large increases , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of a student 's course . |
| 12 | It says it can not get or keep skilled labour . |
| 13 | The trouble with this manoeuvre is that it can not help but demote poetry . |
| 14 | It can both suggest that an effect previously believed to exist does not exist and that one thought not to exist does exist . |
| 15 | Thus , if a forest is managed to achieve maximum growth rather than maximum timber volume , a characteristic of mature climax forest , it can both thrive and produce a substantial harvest in the long term ( provided no exogenous effects such as climatic change occur and as long as soil nutrient status is maintained ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It can also mean that there will be more work for the semantic analyser to perform since there are so many more combinations to check . |
| 18 | It can also happen that a Pump Wagon is obliged to move into friendly troops , although this is rare as you can move the machine as you wish . |
| 19 | It can also happen that a speaker is interrupted and leaves a tone-unit incomplete — for example , lacking a tonic syllable . |
| 20 | It can also imply that all the experiences and aspirations of their members are exhausted by the fact of racial subordination . |
| 21 | it can also accept that individuals are the unwitting servants of this process ; for Marxists , human actors are the carriers of the structural requirements of the capitalist system . |
| 22 | Where goods are marketed indirectly and the manufacturer therefore does not sell directly to the consumer , it can nevertheless happen that the manufacturer makes a collateral contract with the consumer . |
| 23 | And in so doing it can often convey that a past is not a thing to be discovered . |
| 24 | It can certainly happen that a head might at the same time be expected to manage the school democratically by the staff , deferentially by the governors , assertively by the local authority and pliantly by parents . |
| 25 | ‘ It can certainly wait until you get in , ’ Petronella said . |
| 26 | But it can then happen that these relations become a norm , from which other periods are interpreted or even , by contrast , judged . |
| 27 | Security means defence against all comers and contingencies ; as such , it can only materialise when the world is purged of uncertainty . |
| 28 | The hunt has strong religious overtones , and it can only succeed if harmony and peace prevail . |
| 29 | Partial offers are not very common in the UK because where the offer is for 30 per cent or more of the voting rights it can only succeed if shareholders holding over 50 per cent of the voting rights of the target company ( excluding those held by the offeror and its concert parties ) vote in favour of the offer ( Rule 36.5 ) . |
| 30 | Equally important is public confidence or acceptance of coinage ; as coinage is a convention , in the sense that its value is conventionally fixed by the authority of the state with the agreement of the public , it can only function if the value of the coinage , as fixed by the state , is accepted by those who use it ; otherwise , market forces will tend to discount overvalued coins towards their individual bullion values . |