Example sentences of "it can [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The star system , that ‘ Hollywood poison ’ , according to Hugh Castle , was seen as yet another concession to the masses , for , as Clifford Howard explained , ‘ the crowd ( and it is the crowd that supports the movies ) can not appreciate entertainment in the abstract , any more than it can thus appreciate art or religion ’ . |
| 2 | It can also improve definition by tuning its frequency band to the object under investigation . |
| 3 | It can also acquire land ( compulsorily , if necessary ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The sock is a highly sensitive conjugal object , ’ he declares in La Trame Conjugale ( a cunning title ; la trame means framework , it can also mean linen ) . |
| 5 | It can also involve destruction of furniture , hitting people , hurting themselves , and screaming for half an hour or more . |
| 6 | It can also enhance company reports and documentation ; for instance , an insurance company claims assessor can examine diagrams , photographs , verbal notes and text on a desktop computer . |
| 7 | It can also create hostility . |
| 8 | It can also cut access holes down to about 5in diameter in plasterboard or floorboards in fairly confined spaces because of its in-line design , ( using a small-radius cutting blade for wood/plaster ) . |
| 9 | Rehydration can occur within four hours if the spadefoot is in water , but it can also take place , albeit more slowly , if it simply sits in or on damp soil . |
| 10 | Motherhood can be a remarkable giver of confidence , and it can also demolish arrogance . |
| 11 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 12 | It can also reduce stiffness and increase mobility when practised by an experienced therapist . |
| 13 | Reducing emissions not only makes good sense environmentally , it can also yield cost savings . |
| 14 | It can also cause self-crisis in which the mainspring of a person 's belief system is called into doubt and inwardly crumbles without anything strong and important to take its place . |
| 15 | It can also cause panic and despair . |
| 16 | It can also include information that any lawyer wants to share with the rest of the team . |
| 17 | It can even strip insulation from television co-axial cable . |
| 18 | Even though head neural crest is essential for the head it can satisfactorily replace trunk crest , suggesting its cells are multipotential and that their differentiation is determined by where they end up . |
| 19 | That is to say , it can merely shift income from one better-off section to another . |
| 20 | Such conflict is not beyond our control but , left unattended , it can often take control . |
| 21 | It can certainly provide help with specific difficulties such as sustaining different activities for groups that are at opposite ends of the ability range . |
| 22 | But it can greatly increase comfort levels in cost weather , and can help cut down on condensation too . |
| 23 | Although it is early days yet , should we be that club , then it can only spell disaster . |
| 24 | If an employee decides to accept the transfer as a result of a counselling session which gave a misleading impression , it can only spell trouble for his or her future happiness in the job . |
| 25 | As we have seen , congruence with ‘ verb bias ’ can facilitate role mapping directly , but it can only facilitate name mapping indirectly . |
| 26 | It can only generate anxiety , despair . |
| 27 | I do n't know what he 's up to , but it can only mean trouble . ’ |
| 28 | It can only reduce student numbers and make our education system more unequal . |
| 29 | It can only reduce student numbers and make our education system more unequal . |
| 30 | The implication of this for theology is that if it is really theology , it can only take place as God conveys his own Word to us and enables us to hear it ; but the Word itself always remains his and not ours . |