Example sentences of "it can [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One of the advantages of the bureaucratic structure is that it can ensure continuity through the use of standard work practices and also provide some measure of stability .
2 Moreover , it can move individuals from one area of technical expertise to another where their experience is irrelevant , meaning that they face a period of low technical achievement .
3 One of the key benefits of the move will be to give Enterprise Training access to a professional marketing department through which it can promote awareness of its services to employers .
4 As the largest public sector employer in Europe it can offer scope for experience in management and education , in research and in clinical nursing itself .
5 It can offer advice on publications to concentrate upon for the member or officer whose interest is either general or specific and whose reading time may be limited .
6 It can contain fields of different types with the pointer being one of them .
7 Alternatively , any firm which has made a definite decision not to seek authorisation must ensure that it understands what constitutes investment business and , having established that it can refer clients to suitable authorised independent advisers , avoid further involvement like the plague .
8 Potentially it can accommodate variations in pupils ' affective responses and can enable the observer to differentiate between ‘ Hawthorne ’ effects and more permanent phenomena .
9 It can accommodate simulations of drainage-basins ranging in size from a few hectares to 40 000 square kilometres .
10 It can suggest lack of confidence in the opportunity and even worse the vendors and potential purchasers can assume we are suggesting the opportunity is a forced sale .
11 It can distribute shares to employees for no payment .
12 In general it can leave children with their natural curiosity expressed by the neverending ‘ why ’ questions of childhood , being squashed by the inability of adults to discuss in any other way what has really happened , and so the child learns that whatever has really happened is just too awful to be talked about .
13 It can secure benefits for the organization and reduce pressures upon it from outside .
14 As history shows , science has ideological and social purposes ; it can lend legitimacy to social policies , provide legitimation for social inequities and justify power relationships on the basis of natural categories .
15 It has recently suffered its second round of layoffs , trimming staff to 15 from a high of 31 some months ago , so it can achieve profitability by the end of the fourth quarter .
16 With over 16,000 small processors working at once , it can achieve speeds of over 8 billion floating point operations per second , or 8 gigaFlops .
17 It can arrange access for a journalist and make his job easier .
18 It can dissolve boundaries of age and culture , and is , in effect , a way of bringing back faith .
19 An efficient accounts set-up can not merely save the agency lots of money : it can improve relationships with its clients .
20 It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time .
21 In comparison with institutionally-oriented studies this kind of work is much more directed towards the specific testing of hypotheses via the use of multivariate , statistical techniques and it can utilise variables from a number of relevant disciplines .
22 It can cost £2,000-£3,000 to kit out a disabled person with all the equipment needed to communicate .
23 It can cook food at temperatures of between 40°C and 100°C , and comes with a roll-in oven rack and loading trolley .
24 But it can prevent ratification of the entire treaty by refusing to pass the bill . ’
25 It can reflect character by the attitude of one of the persons of your story towards its .
26 It passes a law saying that all envelopes must be left unsealed , so that it can open letters with ease .
27 The immediate difficulty with an ideological definition is that it can deflect attention from writers of the working class to those who write about the working class , a tendency which is prominent in Ashraf 's own study .
28 It has different effects on people depending on their state of mind , but it can exaggerate depression in someone who is suffering from anxiety .
29 By all accounts , the Soviet Union sees the bullying Mr Ozawa — the power behind Toshiki Kaifu 's government — as someone it can do business with .
30 Ascii Corp , the Japanese software company founded by Bill Gates 's erstwhile buddy Kay Nishi , is going to start peddling UnixWare this month , figuring that it can do $4.2m in sales year one ; a Japanese-language version is due in July and Ascii reckons 30 to 50 value-added resellers out of the 200 that sell Informix should bite .
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