Example sentences of "that it can [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality .
2 We 've said that when it 's a baby inside its mum , does n't have to control its own temperature , and in actual fact it 's several days after birth , after the baby 's born that it can effectively produce its own heat and its metabolism functions efficiently .
3 The barn owl 's ability to locate a sound in two planes at once means that it can accurately pinpoint its prey .
4 Assure it that you now have other ways of handling life , or new beliefs , that it can now help you in some other way .
5 He argues that reality resembles a cinematographic film , a ceaseless unwinding an moving , but the intellect is so constituted , that it can only provide us with stills , separate and immobile , from that motion film which is reality .
6 While I would agree that it can only help your proficiency , it should not stifle creativity .
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