Example sentences of "but it can [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apparatus in both UA1 and UA2 can not specifically identify electrons , but it can eliminate other possibilities . |
| 2 | Yeah but lary lary actually means loud like , but it can mean loud clothes or loud mouth . |
| 3 | St John 's church can not claim to have any outstanding architectural merit , but it can boast two unusual features . |
| 4 | It is unwieldy and , at $40,000 , hardly a snip , but it can place direct international calls on demand . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | A regular home manicure need not take too long , but it can make all the difference to the condition and looks of hands and nails . |
| 7 | Gas and air produces a lightheaded feeling that takes the edge off the pain but it can make some women feel nauseous . |
| 8 | It typically leads to unusually dry weather in the western Pacific Tropics and heavy rains on the desert coasts of western America , but it can have wider effects . |
| 9 | It is clear that this can have no retrospective effect on the actual forms of association , but it can have important other effects , since in presenting the history of philosophy or painting in this way it suggests forms of identification or association to new contributors . |
| 10 | Ordering and receipt of materials for the school library is not normally a large part of the school librarian 's work but it can prove time-consuming and one advantage of having a microcomputerbased acquisitions package is that it will help to free the school librarian for other more curriculum-related work and will allow easy access to books and other items on order using a program which can be searched in various ways . |
| 11 | DOMESTIC bliss is not an illusion but it can prove elusive . |
| 12 | A deficiency in vitamin B12 may take many years to show , but it can prove fatal . |
| 13 | Bad breath , or halitosis , is one of those ailments that often provokes ribald comments but it can cause intense embarrassment to the sufferer . |
| 14 | ‘ I had a lot of fun making the programme but it can get boring after a while . |
| 15 | But it can take many months and , as Wendy realised , the longer she waited , the harder it would be to trace Eva . |
| 16 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |
| 17 | ESA has already paid for a launch on Ariane , but it can transfer this money to cover the launch of the Giotto mission to Halley 's comet in 1985 . |