Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] can [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 Now , if we can do it , and it 's not magic , then there must be some reasons we can do it , some rules we 're following , and those rules can in principle be put into computers .
2 The first five are in Latin , but Miller , realising his limitations , wrote in August 1763 , ‘ I have taken the liberty of writing to you in English , being informed that you can either read it yourself , or have some persons who can translate it for you ’ .
3 In some ways it can make it harder .
4 These wo n't damage you hair at all : in fact because they contain lots of conditioning agents they can make it much more shiny and manageable .
5 These days we can do it much easier and we do it electrically , so we can use a relationship between conductivity which has to be er compensated for temperature and pressure at which you 're doing your readings , and that gives us a measure of our chlorinity and then that gives us a measure back to our salinity .
6 In reality there can be practical and technical problems which can make it difficult and sometimes impossible .
7 Yet on many other occasions you may actively wish to promote delegation and there are a variety of useful methods which can stimulate it in practice .
8 Believing their children will receive a better and more disciplined education , with a greater prospect of university entry than from a state school , many parents who can afford it send their children to such private institutions , known ( confusingly ) as " public schools . "
9 A purely syntactically ill-formed sentence , on the other hand , is irredeemably deviant , and the only contexts which can accommodate it are those which induce a tolerance for grammatical incompetence or , at any rate , nonconformity :
10 in other words you can move it up and down aargh
11 So er just beware of what you 're doing when you , when you , course you can actually keep a mortgage a a account open , in other words you can keep it open on a pound a year whatever it is with the Halifax .
12 ‘ And there are two ways we can do it . ’
13 I 'm saying there 's only two ways you can do it in this country unless is to stop on the dole and .
14 I have heard there are more than two ways you can have it and it works out cheaper the more you get if you have it the other way .
15 Yeah , I suppose like if you 're not in any bright lights you can have it on the battery
16 But hypnosis does have a host of special features which can make it profoundly misleading in a forensic context .
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