Example sentences of "it can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can ensure compatibility , avoid unnecessary duplication of effort , enable economies to be made by cooperative use and the full employment of existing facilities . |
| 2 | One of the advantages of the bureaucratic structure is that it can ensure continuity through the use of standard work practices and also provide some measure of stability . |
| 3 | the University may wish to consider how it can ensure that its procedures for probationary staff are being applied uniformly across departments . |
| 4 | During our presidency we must extend the competence of the Community so that it can ensure that once animal welfare regulations are passed they are enforced — from Spain to Scotland and from Ireland to Greece . |
| 5 | It can ensure that this sum is available when required by exchanging sterling today , when the contracts were entered into , at today 's spot rate . |
| 6 | Like GNOMES , hillmen avoid the sunlight , for it can strike them blind . |
| 7 | It can strike young and old alike … and it can be a killer . |
| 8 | The convenience of gas if it can stay price-competitive is likely to lead to further penetration of all heating markets . |
| 9 | Whenever I speak of it , he just says it can stay as it is in case I ever want it . |
| 10 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
| 11 | Well it can stay in there |
| 12 | Every professional knows that if he holes a few of those vital putts of eight feet or more , it can transform his whole round and maybe make him into a winner . |
| 13 | With over 15 years ' experience in waste management , it can sample , analyse , treat using chemical fixation and dispose of wastes at its own treatment plant , transfer stations and landfill sites . |
| 14 | It can get nowhere , it can move nothing . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) It can move itself and has biological needs ( not just for food and warmth and the like , but the need to use its faculties — Functionlust as it was once called by a German psychologist ) . |
| 16 | With it , it can move horizontally . |
| 17 | Because it is liquid — by definition — it can move . |
| 18 | An electric fan will cool the engine but a thermostatically controlled switch A mechanical fan is more reliable for long slogs as it can move more cooling air |
| 19 | She helps the patient transfer his weight onto his hemiplegic leg , and then release his normal leg so that it can move freely sideways . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Where a government is very keen to press on with its programme , and where it can foresee that it would otherwise be frustrated by pressure of time , it can move that a timetable be adopted for a particular measure and , if the House so resolves , the Business Committee of the House will arrange a programme for a particular Bill , setting aside a specific number of days for each stage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Taboo is contagious ; it can move from the prohibited act to a person , and by extension the taboo can be displaced on to material objects which become transmitters of taboo . |
| 24 | Normally , one would assume that the particle will move on a straight line away from A. However , according to the sum over histories , it can move on any path that starts at A. It is like what happens when you place a drop of ink on a piece of blotting paper . |
| 25 | She can say it but , you know what I mean , it can 'appen … |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It can enable the reluctant and shy to enter into discussion with greater enthusiasm at home or at work . |
| 29 | It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food . |
| 30 | It reaches 12″ long and has been bred in captivity — but in outdoor ponds where it can burrow its distinctive hiding place in the bank . |