Example sentences of "it can [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Robot Drill works by gripping the sides of its own hole , and anchoring itself until the bit has made space in which it can move on . |
| 2 | The band has already shown it can knock out pop tunes a cover of Nancy Sinatra 's Kinky Love , for instance but the audience had to be prepared to indulge them a little . |
| 3 | It can scare off malevolent djinns . |
| 4 | It can contain up to three tables of dictionary text plus up to 250 individual entries taken from across the whole dictionary range . |
| 5 | One particular bedroom is so spacious it can accommodate up to four people and full of atmosphere , with an unusual brick vaulted ceiling . |
| 6 | It can eat up your very essence . |
| 7 | If it possesses some sort of strength — physical , chemical or armoured — it can face up boldly to its enemies and defy them . |
| 8 | Even at its most basic it can break up a plain stocking stitch garment or it can be used as an all-over pattern there are numerous ways of arranging the cables to form different patterns . |
| 9 | So and it can break up a long session it can it can maintain interest . |
| 10 | I mentioned that motherhood is a great leveller , and it is true that it can break down all sorts of social barriers . |
| 11 | It can break down what is often the false generality of a ‘ whole way of life ’ to discriminate ascriptions to specific classes and other groups . |
| 12 | the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 13 | Knowing how these processes are organized will help us develop better computer systems for object naming , in addition to helping us understand how object naming develops in children , and how it can break down after brain damage . |
| 14 | Moreover , it can break down some 50 kilograms of CFCs per hour , compared to 0.8 kilograms under current methods . |
| 15 | ‘ Above all , Japan should take fiscal measures so that it can prop up domestic demand to rectify the imbalance , ’ said Tatsufumi Okoshi , economist at Nomura Research Institute . |
| 16 | If you live at any distance from medical help , or are not within easy reach of a telephone , it might be wise to add some ‘ activated charcoal ’ to the medicine cupboard , as it can slow down the absorption of poison . |
| 17 | If synonyms occur frequently , it can slow down access speeds considerably , and therefore the advantage of random access is lost . |
| 18 | It 's not a miracle cure , but it 's hoped American trials prove it can slow down the onset of Aids . |
| 19 | There has to be unhappiness in the status quo that it can complain about — football chants are probably about the closest you can get now , because there 's nothing left to complain about nowadays . |
| 20 | " The board will have to accept — I can say that it is a matter of urgency for the bank to decide whether it can carry on . |
| 21 | Hopefully it can carry through to the end of the season . ’ |
| 22 | Delyn was going to spend £1.25m in 1993–94 , but finds it has more than £2.5m unspent capital which it can carry over from last year 's budget . |
| 23 | Subsequently the central department can influence events by issuing circulars , guiding , instructing or exhorting the local authorities , and it can carry out inspections , exercise confirmatory and adjudicatory powers and so forth . |
| 24 | Atomism , opposed to holism , holds that each sentence has its own meaning , which it can carry about with it from theory to theory . |
| 25 | We are used to the Labour party believing that it can talk up its support by talking the country down . |
| 26 | The company warns that it can cost up to £75 a day to hire a replacement car and if your own vehicle has to be transported home the bill is likely to be about £400 . |
| 27 | The only trouble is with that , if you 're changing it for different albums all the time it can wear out the gears and that . |
| 28 | But separated it can command up to £400 a ton . |
| 29 | If a deal goes ahead , the debtor gets more money , or owes less debt ; it can pay back more of every remaining unit of debt than before the deal . |
| 30 | And it can open up new export markets . |