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

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1 It can contain up to three tables of dictionary text plus up to 250 individual entries taken from across the whole dictionary range .
2 One particular bedroom is so spacious it can accommodate up to four people and full of atmosphere , with an unusual brick vaulted ceiling .
3 the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage .
4 Knowing how these processes are organized will help us develop better computer systems for object naming , in addition to helping us understand how object naming develops in children , and how it can break down after brain damage .
5 Hopefully it can carry through to the end of the season . ’
6 Delyn was going to spend £1.25m in 1993–94 , but finds it has more than £2.5m unspent capital which it can carry over from last year 's budget .
7 Atomism , opposed to holism , holds that each sentence has its own meaning , which it can carry about with it from theory to theory .
8 The company warns that it can cost up to £75 a day to hire a replacement car and if your own vehicle has to be transported home the bill is likely to be about £400 .
9 But separated it can command up to £400 a ton .
10 A spokesman said : ‘ The problem with heavy rainfall and flash floods is that a lot of it runs away before it can soak through to the underground aquifers . ’
11 It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all .
12 In some cases it can go on to cause numbness or weakness in certain muscles of the leg .
13 History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War .
14 It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks .
15 It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth …
16 But clearly the it forms two purposes , one is to remove the er the through traffic but also it it forms a purpose of redistribution of the traffic such that er there are er benefits er of getting er traffic off the A sixty one which for example is headed for the for the northern part of Harrogate and that that can come in from the South , it can go up to the A fifty nine and then come back into the northern part of Harrogate without having to pass through the centre of Harrogate .
17 It can go off at any time , ’ says Nayab .
18 There will be video feedback too , and those who feel up to it can go in for the local skischool giant slalom race .
19 What Nanette has said has been an important introduction and if yo , if what sa you have prepared altogether is legible then perhaps give it to Eileen and it can go out in the Synod papers that will be helpful .
20 It can home in on a car from almost half a mile away .
21 Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place .
22 When erect it can stand up to 5 feet in height .
23 It can plot up to 45,000 colour coded stars , show the motion of the Sun , Moon and all the planets .
24 It 's less dangerous than the often-fatal Hepatitis B , but it can last up to four weeks , while full recovery may take three months .
25 It can print up to twelve colours at the same time … ’
26 It can travel back to a time 200 million years ago , long before human beings existed .
27 The thing that made it attractive to Paneth and Peters , and years later to Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen — it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas .
28 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 .
29 It can reach up to 12cm in length .
30 The metro is the first full-scale railway system to have driverless trains and it can run up to 60 two-car trains an hour during peak periods ( New Scientist .
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