Example sentences of "it can [vb infin] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barton is part of a regional development area and as such it can offer new companies a wide range of financial incentives . |
| 2 | Well , I 've got to be honest , if you actually ask and negotiate with the company , it can offer reduced benefits and reduced premiums to the client 's circumstances , but it 's not generally advertised . |
| 3 | Open-market operations ( the purchase and sale of money market securities by the Bank of England ) can have a number of effects : in the short term it can have the effect of tilting the yield curve both upwards and downwards ; in the longer term , by leading to changes in the money supply , it can influence inflationary expectations which in turn can affect the level of the yield curve . |
| 4 | It projects a laser dot onto the front of approaching vehicles and even in a stream of traffic it can isolate offending vehicles , with a read-out of speed and range . |
| 5 | On the other hand it can isolate quiet pupils from the action , and very quick pupils can ignore slower ones without intentional cruelty . |
| 6 | All forms of the disease begin as tuberculosis of the lung although it can affect other organs including the membranes encasing the brain and spinal cord , the bones , joints and kidneys . |
| 7 | It can detect sudden increases in water consumption , such as leaks . |
| 8 | It can confer certain powers and responsibilities upon regional and local authorities , and it can also remove those powers . |
| 9 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 10 | It can develop as fast as a Charolais if fed appropriately and under ideal circumstances it can achieve similar weights within the same time span , especially if breeders are selective in their choice of stock . |
| 11 | Ian Rock , the chief executive , said yesterday : ‘ The group 's position is more stable than for some time , but it still requires a substantial improvement in the economy and a solution to the group 's gearing before it can achieve satisfactory returns on shareholders ’ funds . ’ |
| 12 | Even more importantly , it can achieve dramatic reductions in the amount of energy used . |
| 13 | The apparatus in both UA1 and UA2 can not specifically identify electrons , but it can eliminate other possibilities . |
| 14 | In certain serious blood disorders it can invade other parts of the body , such as the lungs or central nervous system , with severe , if not fatal , consequences . |
| 15 | Net is also a general term , not specific to working girls ( prostitutes ) so that it can facilitate other ministries in the future . |
| 16 | Language is not merely a neutral medium for the conveying of information ; it can trigger emotional responses which may spring from prejudice , stereotyping or misunderstanding . |
| 17 | If multimedia has a future , it has nothing to do with the fact that it can do clever things . |
| 18 | However , it would help the student if he were introduced to it briefly and with simplicity , not only because a knowledge of serialism is essential to an understanding of today 's music , but also because so many aspects of it can enrich other methods of composition , even in other styles and idioms . |
| 19 | It can create new advantages for innovators ; it can also erode the position of incumbents by altering the rules ' of supply and encouraging new entrants . |
| 20 | Unemployment does not only deny an adequate income , it can create deep crises of social identity . |
| 21 | Winter cereals are slow to establish , and must be sown earlier : this is apparently because there is a tendency for stubble or killed turf to be pushed down into the slits with the seed where it can create anaerobic conditions leading to the formation of toxic substances such as acetic acid . |
| 22 | Leach says LOFT is a boon to Britain because it can answer new questions raised by Britain 's stricter philosophy on safety margins . |
| 23 | WHEN the mammalian proto-oncogene bcl-2 is overexpressed it can protect various types of cells both from normal and from experimentally induced apoptosis , but the molecular mechanisms involved are unknown . |
| 24 | One side effect of being Scotland 's largest PR firm — with a turnover of £3.75 million and fee income of £1.8 million last year — is that , rightly or wrongly , it can give potential clients the impression of being both expensive and impersonal . |
| 25 | It has retained the strong legs and good feet of a draught animal , so that it can travel long distances over rough terrain on the range , and it has proved able to withstand the stress of drought better than other Bos taurus breeds . |
| 26 | Box , for example , would be quite out of place in its usual role of low , closely clipped regular border hedging , but in higher , mounded plantings it can represent distant hills or mountains . |
| 27 | ‘ We are committed to retaining the nuclear option for the future , provided the industry can demonstrate that nuclear generation is economic and provided it can meet rigorous standards of safety and environmental protection . ’ |
| 28 | It can recharge conventional batteries up to 20 times , thereby extending their useful life 10 times ( the recharge is not equivalent to the initial charge ) . |
| 29 | Even more ambitiously , it can prompt new kinds of practices . |
| 30 | It can mean share-option schemes , so that top executives have their wealth tied ( in both directions ) to their firm 's long-term performance . |