Example sentences of "it can [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 . |
| 2 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 3 | It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks . |
| 4 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |
| 5 | There will be video feedback too , and those who feel up to it can go in for the local skischool giant slalom race . |
| 6 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 7 | It can single out for special treatment the special aggravating features of a crime . |
| 8 | This restriction to particular ‘ niches ’ in the environment is the result of a partitioning out of competing species over a limited range of resources ; each comes to live in the portion of a habitat it can exploit best for reproductive purposes . |