Example sentences of "can it [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only then can it affect political institutions . |
| 2 | Not only can it homogenize these communities as insensitively as assimilationism or multiculturalism . |
| 3 | Can it speak other languages ? |
| 4 | Which aircraft have we got and can it take two crew and a full load of fuel ? |
| 5 | If Labour can not win when the country is in the deepest recession since the war and the Tories have ditched their greatest electoral asset , can it have any hope of ever again forming a government ? |
| 6 | But a regular inspection every four or five years can not by itself be sufficient protection for the parents or the children ; nor can it provide enough information by which to judge the effectiveness of a school . |
| 7 | Can it help Third World countries as they are forced to choose between capitalism and Marxism both of which seem to have unattractive features ? |
| 8 | The questions which our proposal can usefully address are : ( i ) Will it lead to any discriminating predictions about observable data which differ from what would be expected under the assumption that postnominals are simply normal attributive adjectives ? ( ii ) How might our claim relate to the characteristics of postnominal attributives discussed in Sections 3.5 to 3.7 ? ( iii ) Can it cast any light in particular on the fact that only a subset of adjectives can occur as postnominal attributives ? |