Example sentences of "[noun sg] it can " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Candida gets into a woman 's urinary tract or bladder it can produce a form of cystitis — characterized by a burning sensation when passing urine . |
| 2 | When parents exclude children from their own grief it can make the child feel that the awful event that has taken place is a punishment for which they are in part responsible . |
| 3 | If , however , the company creates £1m of debenture stock it can issue it ; to subscribers in such amounts as each wants , giving each a single certificate and he can sell and transfer any fraction of it . |
| 4 | Detrimental to the plaintiff it can not be , if he has no cause of action ; and beneficial to the defendant it can not be ; for , in contemplation of law , the defence upon such an admitted state of facts must be successful , and the defendant will recover costs , which must be assumed to be a full compensation for all the legal damage he may sustain . |
| 5 | The more torque an engine has , the bigger load it can pull in the same gear or the higher gear it can use for a given load . |
| 6 | In the absence of magnetic saturation it can be shown ( Roters , 1941 ) that the torque produced is proportional to the square of the phase current in a variable-reluctance motor and linearly proportional to the phase current in a hybrid motor . |
| 7 | And the harm it can do may be greater than anyone realises . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure what good it can do but I 've been thinking over what you said about Barney Willard . |
| 9 | because if something happens , I think it 's important for tutorial programme it can respond to what 's happening |
| 10 | If some is present ( bearing in mind it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut ) , then continue with sinking wheatgerm . |
| 11 | Should you require a print or transparency of the results of your search it can be ordered from Hulton Deutsch for a small fee . |
| 12 | The speaking clock is sponsored by a watchmaker , raising the awkward question of how much of a future it can have if everyone buys watches . |
| 13 | In team fishing it can be demoralising when the score sheet says you have contributed nothing , while the truth is you have fished your heart out , caught several fish but they missed the mark . |
| 14 | Due to its sheer weight it can only be used at the Centre by special permission of the Department of Transport . |
| 15 | The split saw Mr Norman Tebbit align the Tory Right with the Labour front bench , while Ulster Unionists , the Scottish Nationalists , the SDP , a few Labour leftwingers and the Liberal Democrats signalled grudging support for the Cabinet , which needs every vote it can get to pass the promised bill next spring . |
| 16 | As we saw earlier , the claim that the STV can be a " vote for a coalition " must be rejected : if you have only one vote it can benefit only one party . |
| 17 | Safeway supermarket group Argyll suffered at the hands of profit takers despite impressive full-year results and a confident prediction it can push profits ahead . |
| 18 | With practice it can be developed to a fine art , so that little time is sacrificed . |
| 19 | We do not know how they were elected ; but in practice it can hardly have been more than a co-optation . |
| 20 | Whereas these may appear to be easy to recognize in theory , in practice it can be difficult to determine whether a sediment is grain supported or matrix supported in a hand specimen , but particularly when seen in two dimensions within a thin section ( e.g. Fig. 5.2d ) . |
| 21 | If she has ventured beyond the car it can mean only one thing — it 's stopped raining ! |
| 22 | But as a general rule it can happen at any age and time . |
| 23 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 24 | According to the golden rule it can be a powerful motivating force leading the court to detect such an ambiguity . |
| 25 | From a boat it can be squeezed enough to get a grip on it , and when it hits the water it sinks in a big brown cloud . |
| 26 | Because the Power Tool 's EQ is added to the sound after your amplifier it can drastically change the tone produced at the end of the chain , especially in the lower frequencies . |
| 27 | It means that um particularly in therapy it can be very difficult later on because things that we would ordinarily consider to be supportive like being kind , like erm y'know kind of putting a comforting arm round somebody 's shoulders , like erm y'know ways in which people express support and affection for each-other ah are very very difficult for the survivor to accept because they 're sort of the part of the way in which she , and it usually is a she , has been abused in the past . |
| 28 | But even in the era of " free " child labour it can have mollified the condition of only a minority . |
| 29 | Few plant labels or house-plant books mention that it is poisonous , or state what effect it can have . |
| 30 | That is the effect it can have . |