Example sentences of "it can [adv] [vb infin] an " in BNC.

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1 It can also make an order in any family proceedings in connection with a child in care .
2 It can also denote an idea .
3 It can also include an accident resulting from a deliberate act ( Chief Constable of West Midlands Police v Billingham [ 1979 ] Crim LR 256 ) .
4 Whilst it rightly steers us away from naive and simplistic causal theories of deviance , it can hardly provide an approach which is substantially more fruitful .
5 Therefore where an otherwise innocent article is concerned it can only become an offensive weapon if the accused intended to use it to cause personal injury .
6 The five weeks is structured to provide a fairly comprehensive picture of actor training though even so it can only provide an outline of classes at drama school .
7 Rounding up long-lost varsity chums for a rollicking angst-fest has always been a reliable dramatic wheeze , but it can only grab an audience by the short and curlies if you 're prepared to shed gallons of blood on the tracks .
8 Partly arising from this , and partly because of the lack of difference found between many predator species , the crude measure of skeletal element proportions is not diagnostic , although it can still provide an approximation of the overall structure of the bone assemblage .
9 It can apparently recognise an impressive variety of regional and foreign accents .
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