Example sentences of "it can [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can strike young and old alike … and it can be a killer . |
| 2 | The convenience of gas if it can stay price-competitive is likely to lead to further penetration of all heating markets . |
| 3 | The NRPB now intends to begin an epidemiological investigation across Britain to see if it can spot any increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer in areas under the night path of the radiation cloud that spread south-east from Windscale 25 years ago . |
| 4 | But do you think that there 's some way that the NEA can be reformed or changed so that it can serve that purpose ? |
| 5 | PR must then be a reasonable autonomous unit so that it can serve all departments equally . |
| 6 | Even if it can estimate potential market demand in a country , actual demand will not materialise unless a similar situation applies to product availability , pricing , quality etc in both countries . |
| 7 | If given three or more parameters as input , it can hold all but two constant and discover a law relating these two ; then treat the constants ( c , k ) within this law as new parameters , and relate them to the other inputs . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Barton is part of a regional development area and as such it can offer new companies a wide range of financial incentives . |
| 10 | Wood retains its popularity because it can offer much more stiffness for a given weight than any existing thermoplastic . |
| 11 | Well , I 've got to be honest , if you actually ask and negotiate with the company , it can offer reduced benefits and reduced premiums to the client 's circumstances , but it 's not generally advertised . |
| 12 | Unless it can pull some rabbits from a hat , the losing consortium , led by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas , will see the YF-23 ( which resembles its sleek and costly stablemate , the B-2 bomber ) consigned to a museum . |
| 13 | Open-market operations ( the purchase and sale of money market securities by the Bank of England ) can have a number of effects : in the short term it can have the effect of tilting the yield curve both upwards and downwards ; in the longer term , by leading to changes in the money supply , it can influence inflationary expectations which in turn can affect the level of the yield curve . |
| 14 | It projects a laser dot onto the front of approaching vehicles and even in a stream of traffic it can isolate offending vehicles , with a read-out of speed and range . |
| 15 | On the other hand it can isolate quiet pupils from the action , and very quick pupils can ignore slower ones without intentional cruelty . |
| 16 | No account of science can be regarded as anywhere near adequate unless it can accommodate such factors . |
| 17 | I 've already said this morning that the District Council does not consider that it can accommodate any further dwellings within the Southern Ryedale area without adversely affecting the character of the settlements that are already there , or compromising greenbelt objectives , erm , so therefore to meet the Greater York total , the District Council considers it essential that there is a new settlement to take that amount of housing that can not be accommodated within the Southern Ryedale area . |
| 18 | All forms of the disease begin as tuberculosis of the lung although it can affect other organs including the membranes encasing the brain and spinal cord , the bones , joints and kidneys . |
| 19 | There are very large individual differences in this and it can affect each of the stages so far mentioned . |
| 20 | Men are n't taught about testicular cancer , yet it can affect any man between the ages of 15 and 45 . |
| 21 | ‘ Interesting , but I do n't see how it can affect this case . |
| 22 | To be fair , the government of Hong Kong has such pressing social problems on its hands that it can spare little time either for passing or , equally important , enforcing conservation laws . |
| 23 | While a moving-coil meter does not exhibit any steady deflection when sinusoidal current passes through it and must be preceded by some form of rectifying circuit before it can register such current , other forms of meter exist that respond usefully by themselves to sinusoidal current . |
| 24 | The only way out of this conundrum would be to argue , not only that the contents of the bracket are for the tribunal , but that it can alter these at will , and put any other contents in their place at any time . |
| 25 | On the other hand , a corporation can own property ; it can acquire rights and make itself liable under a contract ; it can be a trustee ; it can incur civil liability for wrongful acts , and even for those which involve a definite state of mind like fraud or malice . |
| 26 | That is the only way it can acquire that one work . |
| 27 | It can detect sudden increases in water consumption , such as leaks . |
| 28 | The Galaxy C-5 is so big it can transport half a dozen helicopters in one go . |
| 29 | I mean I think the , I , I think it can effect this , but not that materially erm there are many as you know different provinces round the world and what happens in the C I S is , is obviously very important for the Middle East and so erm it will have an impact . |
| 30 | In agreement with this idea several groups have recently shown that this site does indeed represent a functional binding site for octamer binding proteins ( 12–14 ) and we have demonstrated that it can bind both the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and a novel octamer binding protein expressed in cervical cells ( 15 ) . |