Example sentences of "it can [verb] [det] [noun] " 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 | PR must then be a reasonable autonomous unit so that it can serve all departments equally . |
| 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 | Unless it can pull some rabbits from a hat , the losing consortium , led by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas , will see the YF-23 ( which resembles its sleek and costly stablemate , the B-2 bomber ) consigned to a museum . |
| 6 | No account of science can be regarded as anywhere near adequate unless it can accommodate such factors . |
| 7 | Men are n't taught about testicular cancer , yet it can affect any man between the ages of 15 and 45 . |
| 8 | ‘ Interesting , but I do n't see how it can affect this case . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the great Victorian house , lives are inevitably connected because they are passed beneath a single roof , depend on the same resources , and can not but have an effect on one another ; yet the planning of the great house does all it can to obliterate these connections . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | But if your machine is already infected , it can infect any disk you put into it , unless you copy protect the disk first . |
| 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 | Hawking thinks it can go either way but we will never know . |
| 18 | It can perform any action other than a communication with the terminated process ( which clearly can not agree to any communication ) . |
| 19 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Since this is a purely morphological description it can embrace all stages in development from compacted 8-cells to the 16- to 32-cell stage just prior to blastocoel formation . |
| 23 | One of the Packman 's most important claims is that it can handle all types and sizes of chemical pack . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The main concern now is whether it can generate enough advertising revenue in a more competitive market to stave off programming and scheduling compromises to make it more popular and to build its audience . |
| 26 | It can cover any number of things . |
| 27 | This is in miniature the classic blueprint detective story , and it can give more pleasure by virtue of its clues coming closer to the final revelation than sometimes the full-length affair does . |
| 28 | Thus it can represent that part of the real world that was modelled in the data analysis process . |
| 29 | Here is the gap that the Bank is equipped to fill : by lending for infrastructure ( or to ease the financial burden of changes in economic policy ) , and by tying advice and policy-strings to these loans , it can meet both needs . |
| 30 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |