Example sentences of "it can do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If multimedia has a future , it has nothing to do with the fact that it can do clever things . |
| 2 | Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . |
| 3 | It can do all these things without the possibility of legal challenge in our courts . |
| 4 | It can do all there is for it to do , which is to discover regularities among our God-given ideas , and to systematize these in the most useful way . |
| 5 | Moreover , the way that question is answered can change the course of history , it can condemn millions to bloody war , or it can do much to ensure that they are spared that misery . |
| 6 | It can do one of two things . |
| 7 | It can take large numbers of rabbits that live above the ground in dense woodland and it can do that same job in wooded areas where ferreting is not allowed because of other interests . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And these days , it can do more than this : it can introduce all sorts of excitements in design , colour and texture . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If a manufacturer of a product says ‘ It can do this and that ’ then my expectation is that it will do exactly what the manufacturer says it can do . |
| 12 | It can do this because the capacity of an input neuron to activate any of the output neurons increases every time the ‘ output pattern generator ’ activates the output neuron simultaneously with external activation of the input neuron . |
| 13 | It can do this because during the recent election campaign , there was no great disagreement about economic policy among the parties . |
| 14 | It can do this by using specifically attention-getting devices — enormous headlines in the press , rolls of drums , whistles or other unusual sounds on TV or radio , flashing lights on TV or cinema — but these are likely to be artificially imposed in the context of an ad . |
| 15 | The makers claim a range of more than 1,000 miles is feasible from its 17.6 gallon tank — it can do 64 mpg at a steady 56 mph ( or 46.5 mpg at 75 mph , and 37.8 mpg on the urban cycle ) . |