Example sentences of "it can [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it can move individuals from one area of technical expertise to another where their experience is irrelevant , meaning that they face a period of low technical achievement . |
| 2 | It will do all it can to reassure residents , to accept and prove accountability , to demonstrate openness , and to return communities to a quality of life which others enjoy and which all deserve . |
| 3 | As long as you can fit in a piece of florist 's foam , it can hold flowers ! |
| 4 | It can hold couples together in a way that may seem to the outsider against all reason . |
| 5 | It can contain fields of different types with the pointer being one of them . |
| 6 | Alternatively , any firm which has made a definite decision not to seek authorisation must ensure that it understands what constitutes investment business and , having established that it can refer clients to suitable authorised independent advisers , avoid further involvement like the plague . |
| 7 | Potentially it can accommodate variations in pupils ' affective responses and can enable the observer to differentiate between ‘ Hawthorne ’ effects and more permanent phenomena . |
| 8 | In this new shape , it can accommodate molecules called G-proteins , which hang around inside the cell . |
| 9 | It can accommodate simulations of drainage-basins ranging in size from a few hectares to 40 000 square kilometres . |
| 10 | And how they choose to spend it can affect things that happen in the world . |
| 11 | It can distribute shares to employees for no payment . |
| 12 | It can either tough it out , claiming virtue in its readiness to take hard decisions in the national interest ; or it can assemble safeguards and concessions and proclaim compassion for the neediest . |
| 13 | Once the group is formed , it can sponsor seminars and workshops , and its mailing list can be used for information dissemination . |
| 14 | In general it can leave children with their natural curiosity expressed by the neverending ‘ why ’ questions of childhood , being squashed by the inability of adults to discuss in any other way what has really happened , and so the child learns that whatever has really happened is just too awful to be talked about . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The particular organisation can build up its own expertise ; it can acquire answers which are then relayed ; it can refer the enquirer to another agency ; it can bring in specialists to answer the enquiries direct . |
| 17 | For Marxists , too , as an area becomes developed it can acquire characteristics which make it less attractive to capitalist production . |
| 18 | It can secure benefits for the organization and reduce pressures upon it from outside . |
| 19 | It can anticipate problems and provide a means for reaching solutions . |
| 20 | With over 16,000 small processors working at once , it can achieve speeds of over 8 billion floating point operations per second , or 8 gigaFlops . |
| 21 | It can dissolve boundaries of age and culture , and is , in effect , a way of bringing back faith . |
| 22 | Normally groundwater supplies are of high quality and need little treatment , but the source of groundwater is rainfall that percolates through the soil , where it can dissolve substances , man-made or natural , beneficial or deleterious , present in the soil . |
| 23 | Normally the supplies are of high quality and need little treatment , but groundwater originates as rainfall entering the ground , and there it can dissolve substances , man-made or natural , present in the soil . |
| 24 | An efficient accounts set-up can not merely save the agency lots of money : it can improve relationships with its clients . |
| 25 | It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time . |
| 26 | Elsewhere Sun Express reckons it can deliver products 20% below the cost on SMCC price lists — it offers no installation , service or support . |
| 27 | In comparison with institutionally-oriented studies this kind of work is much more directed towards the specific testing of hypotheses via the use of multivariate , statistical techniques and it can utilise variables from a number of relevant disciplines . |
| 28 | Orally created music can be commodified ( performances by ‘ traditional ’ singers , sold through concerts ) and it can assume forms showing certain types of hierarchy and functional specialization ( West African drum orchestra music , Balinese gamelan music ) . |
| 29 | Since Pro-File is a data logger it can log parameters other than those required for it to function as a dive computer ( depth , temperature and air data as functions of time ) . |
| 30 | It passes a law saying that all envelopes must be left unsealed , so that it can open letters with ease . |