Example sentences of "it can [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having pledged that it will not raise taxes , the Government is faced with trimming corners where it can or increasing its borrowing . |
| 2 | ‘ The mind , taking no notice of itself , is deluded to think it can and doth conceive bodies … without the mind . ’ |
| 3 | It can and does change , even from year to year ; and may change appreciably from decade to decade . |
| 4 | But it can and does happen . |
| 5 | It can and does encourage your customer to pay only the oldest parts of your total debt and leave the more recent balances unpaid . |
| 6 | The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance . |
| 7 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 8 | ‘ It can and has been done , my good priest . ’ |