Example sentences of "it [conj] [pron] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you come to an obstruction in a road you can seek to circumvent it or you can retrace your journey to the nearest fork and avoid that road altogether . |
| 2 | He can ignore it or he can take profit . |
| 3 | she did show me that and then she 's got it like straps on it where she can take it off but er oh she |
| 4 | If you do n't use it straight away , you should keep it where you can find it when you need it . |
| 5 | Ancient history is scarce around these parts , and you take it where you can get it — even from people you wiped out in more recent times . |
| 6 | That 's it so you can do these same with your words . |
| 7 | The oth , the other thing is actually , Alun , Chris out there has asked you , this form here , at the coffee break , just leave it so you can leave it outside , would you just put your Christian name on this form . |
| 8 | Then make a list of all the items and photocopy it so you can give one to each guest . |
| 9 | But you you 're entitled to it so you can claim it any time you want . |
| 10 | Once it 's down in black and white , you know you ca n't forget it so you can put it out of your mind until the next day . |
| 11 | It 's got a very thick safety glass door on it so you can see what the little dears are doing but ca n't hear them . ’ |
| 12 | Erm so get sort of practise reading it so you can cut out the irrelevant stuff . |
| 13 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 14 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 15 | No party presents the electorate with explicit choices between widely desired ends ; they generally seek to convince it that they can bring a little more of everything that is wanted . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , you mean how is it that they can afford the pukka style if he is n't successful ? ’ |
| 17 | My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’ |
| 18 | The Cross-Rail and channel tunnel high speed link are at nothing like the state of preparedness of Jubilee Line , that 's going ahead now after a lot of work , er th it it will not be the case er it that you can do either of those very quickly , Cross-Rail 's only just started going through the House of Commons . |
| 19 | Why is it that you can arrive at an aerodrome ( they do not have the temerity to call them airports , let alone international ) with facilities such as NDBs , localisers , clean eating facilities , tar macadam runways , and where landing fees are minimum ? |
| 20 | ‘ Who is it that you can see in the garden ? ’ |
| 21 | Well I have no evidence from either of them , you know , er that er they are slamming the door on my initiative , other than the statement that was issued which if you read it , there 's very little in it that you can object to , or that I could object to , which commits them , the two governments to an initiative , and indeed that 's what er the last statement that Mr Adams and I issued asked them to do , the only er they also in in their statements say that my actions have been both courageous and imaginative |
| 22 | Those of you who had the benefit of tv replays and pundits blathering will actually know a lot more about it than I can recall . |
| 23 | The enlightenment derives from the need for commercial success , from the necessary recognition by members that their business can not succeed if they take more out of it than it can stand . |
| 24 | If he 's done it once he can do it again . ’ |
| 25 | Odd-Knut is much amused by all this talk , and tells us that in Greenland the sledge dogs will eat it if they can get at it . |
| 26 | I mean I 'd much rather they do it if we can influence him enough . |
| 27 | ‘ It has been an awful long time just getting to this stage , but it will be worth it if we can succeed . ’ |
| 28 | I get fed up with cooking the same old thing — I like it if I can experiment . |
| 29 | Nine hundred and sixty seven words that takes about five or six minutes to read it if I can read it in this light . |
| 30 | I 'll have it if I can keep it . |