Example sentences of "it can [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NRPB now intends to begin an epidemiological investigation across Britain to see if it can spot any increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer in areas under the night path of the radiation cloud that spread south-east from Windscale 25 years ago . |
| 2 | But do you think that there 's some way that the NEA can be reformed or changed so that it can serve that purpose ? |
| 3 | Even if it can estimate potential market demand in a country , actual demand will not materialise unless a similar situation applies to product availability , pricing , quality etc in both countries . |
| 4 | LET YOUR MONEY DO THE WALKING The number of new residents a tax haven can accommodate is limited , but it can hold any amount of companies , trusts and offshore funds |
| 5 | Men are n't taught about testicular cancer , yet it can affect any man between the ages of 15 and 45 . |
| 6 | ‘ Interesting , but I do n't see how it can affect this case . |
| 7 | To be fair , the government of Hong Kong has such pressing social problems on its hands that it can spare little time either for passing or , equally important , enforcing conservation laws . |
| 8 | On the other hand , a corporation can own property ; it can acquire rights and make itself liable under a contract ; it can be a trustee ; it can incur civil liability for wrongful acts , and even for those which involve a definite state of mind like fraud or malice . |
| 9 | Any form of mental disorder is a serious problem for the individual , since it can involve great suffering and prevent him or her from living a full and satisfying life . |
| 10 | If the new leadership of the Labour Party decides to put greater equality at the heart of its policies , huge questions remain to be answered about how it can achieve democratic support to bring this about . |
| 11 | If the court does not wish to intervene it can achieve this result by saying that there was no error at all , by characterising the error as one within jurisdiction , or by defining jurisdiction itself more narrowly than in Anisminic . |
| 12 | With a natural , sculptural quality , it can outshine any number or works of art or ornaments and , what 's more , at a fraction of the price if you buy and nurture a smaller plant rather than shelling out on a large , expensive specimen a nursery has grown on for you . |
| 13 | We show that provided the B's believe that A follows a linear strategy , then , it is best for A to behave in this way even if it can choose any strategy . |
| 14 | However , very often the frame looks rather tatty and in definite need of some loving care before it can do proper justice to your work . |
| 15 | It can be used as an incisor ; a grounder ; skew chisel ; it can do some modelling , cleaning corners , curved ‘ V ’ cuts that twist and turn , has the tight size and bend to enable good control regardless of grain , and gets the blue ribbon . |
| 16 | But if your machine is already infected , it can infect any disk you put into it , unless you copy protect the disk first . |
| 17 | But if your machine is already infected , it can infect any disk you put into it , unless you copy protect the disk first . |
| 18 | That structure can now be diverse , based on local choices , and it can place tremendous emphasis on community identity . |
| 19 | Hawking thinks it can go either way but we will never know . |
| 20 | If the employer becomes aware of any breach of service contract , it can seek an injunction from the High Court preventing the director(s) in question from committing further breaches , and in the long term , if it can show financial loss , the company may seek damages . |
| 21 | It can bring ill fortune . ’ |
| 22 | It can perform any action other than a communication with the terminated process ( which clearly can not agree to any communication ) . |
| 23 | Most work has gone into tuning the machines for graphics work : the company reckons that it can out-perform conventional video adaptor boards with a combination of a Mach32 graphics accelerator , a 32-bit linear frame buffer and up to 2Mb of fast video RAM . |
| 24 | From its exports it can earn foreign currency , and begin to pay off its huge debts . |
| 25 | If he fails to judge the correct line of the fish 's swim , it can pass either side of him ; sometimes a frustrating arms length away . |
| 26 | The decision by a court that a particular situation was not intended to come within the ambit of a statute , though within its words in what may be their most obvious meaning , does not deny the supremacy of Parliament , for if Parliament disagrees with the decision it can pass another Act dealing specifically with the type of case . |
| 27 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 28 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 29 | However , as long as a system can recognize that this use of ‘ in the hand ’ implies that the hand is part of ‘ him ’ , it can avoid this kind of reasoning altogether and adopt a constraint propagation method to resolve both pronouns . |
| 30 | In addition to its magical effects , the clock can lash out with its pendulum chains ( which are amazingly ‘ elastic ’ ) , and it can generate illusory Clone Images of itself . |