Example sentences of "it can [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A council which has been urged to fit smoke alarms to all its properties says it ca n't because it 's worried about the legal implications . |
| 2 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 3 | ‘ Some people tend to think it 's some faraway problem that will never come to anything , but it destroyed human decency before and it can again if we do n't stand up to it . |
| 4 | It can not but contribute to the impression of providential suitability of an Eastern European pope . |
| 5 | Despite the attempt to treat the Pythagorean example as an exception , it can not but weaken Goody 's case . |
| 6 | ‘ I know that you 've built up some kind of sustaining narrative behind your eidetic delusion — it can not but be otherwise . |
| 7 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |
| 8 | In a Marxist context it , it can not because the only way in which you can make progress is through co class conflict . |
| 9 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
| 10 | It is a phenomenon which is repeated at a number of other small towns such as Ilchester and Bath , but it can not as yet be explained . |
| 11 | It can not and must not be confined to the school and to the classroom . |
| 12 | This should be as much for what it can not and does not achieve , as for what it does . |
| 13 | It can not and will never be anything more in the present day state ’ ( quoted in Przeworski , 1985 , p. 10 ) . |
| 14 | The answer is that it can not and will not . |
| 15 | Since it can not and will not save itself , it can not be saved by anything you or I might do . |
| 16 | A shrub rose may be a true species , pure and simple , it may be ancient , or it can just as well be a highly cross-bred product of more recent times . |
| 17 | CUCGA intends within five years to have ( i ) established relations with the media , Government Departments , Members of both Houses of Parliament and other bodies with an interest in higher education ; ( ii ) established itself as a campaigning body on behalf of graduate organisations ; ( iii ) opened its membership to encompass all university convocations and analogous bodies in the UK ; ( iv ) established methods of funding to allow it to support its expanded role ; ( v ) developed a comprehensive portfolio of policy issues upon which it can actively and publicly campaign at appropriate times . |