Example sentences of "but it can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in a shop and some fella said : ‘ She should have had her eye on him ’ but it can just happen in seconds . ’ |
| 2 | I was in a shop and some fella said ‘ she should have had her eye on him ’ but it can just happen in seconds ' Sheena Heffing |
| 3 | Burying a much loved pet at home can provide great emotional support at a distressing time , but it can also present practical problems |
| 4 | It can lead people to linking arms at Blackpool and , depending on whether it 's the Labour Party Conference or the annual darts team binge singing The Red Flag or the Okie Cokie but it can also lead to a group of skins bunging bricks through a Pakistani 's shop window . |
| 5 | But it can also give deep satisfaction to have this opportunity of showing love and concern for someone who is close and who has probably shown the same care for us . |
| 6 | Of course , TV and radio training can be expensive both in the cost and the time involved in the training itself and in time lost from work making broadcasts , but it can also pay off extremely well . |
| 7 | Not only can it serve as an indicator of status , but it can also throw some light on changing settlement developments , which will be examined in the following chapters . |
| 8 | Keith Wells pointed out that the title Sheffield Shares is deliberately ambiguous — it can be taken to mean Sheffield 's shares , as in ‘ shares ’ which are up for grabs by keen or greedy speculators ( my interpretation ) , but it can also mean Sheffield shares as in ‘ shares its wealth ’ — ‘ and that 's basically what we are trying to initiate here . |
| 9 | When we use the words , ‘ brothers ’ and ‘ sisters ’ we usually mean the people in our immediate families , but it can also mean other people in the world who might be in need of our help . |
| 10 | ‘ Double ’ can mean ten petals , but it can also mean 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 , 35 — nominally any multiple of five . |
| 11 | Published by the Asian Social Institute ( ASI ) in Manila with the support of WACC , the handbook is designed to complement ASI 's newsletter workshops but it can also stand alone . |
| 12 | Group travel can relieve some of these pressures but it can also result in ‘ ganging up ’ , for the silliest of reasons . |
| 13 | Not only does packaging provide protection for the product , but it can also reinforce the brand image and the point-of-sale attraction to the buyer . |
| 14 | Not only can the Commission assist complainants by bringing proceedings on their behalf , but it can also conduct a formal investigation , as it did in West Glamorgan . |
| 15 | It allows a repetitive task to become tolerable ; but it can also threaten the ordered hierarchy of an organization where discretion is to be minimized by directive communications . |
| 16 | An easement can come into existence by express grant or by contract , but it can also arise in at least three other ways . |
| 17 | The Niue Assembly comprises 20 members ( 14 village representatives and six elected on a common roll ) and has legislative authority , but it can also request New Zealand to legislate for the island . |
| 18 | The Mind assesses their relative importance , and thus not only is it capable of analysis and disassociation of individual sensations but it can also synthesize a series of sensations into a single whole . |
| 19 | For most women this is tremendously exciting ; but it can also feel strange and not a little unnerving . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , sometimes you create this illusion for yourself , because you 've been with it a certain number of hours , but it can also go the other way : you might think something 's horrible and then come in the next day and realise it 's actually pretty good . |
| 21 | But it can also strike on the potential for tension between bringing out individuality and creating conformity . |
| 22 | Coaching can be a great help — but it can also get in the way , for slavishly following a pedantic teacher can produce very strange results , with the candidate ending up trying to sound like someone he or she is n't . |
| 23 | The low RF interference and low component count claims are usually made because the Cuk topology is not only able to accommodate the input and output filter chokes on the same magnetic core as the transformer , but it can also reduce the input and output ripple currents to very low levels . |
| 24 | Steeplechasing can exact a terrible price from its participants , but it can also provide moments of unparalleled sporting rapture . |
| 25 | A conservatory is not only a nice , warm place where you can enjoy the view of the garden , but it can also provide savings in heating costs . |
| 26 | This kind of academic-theoretical drift can yield benefits in terms of knowledge and academic status , but it can also produce a reaction which attacks the increasing irrelevance or distortion of such studies . |
| 27 | The rule is used basically in tort , but it can also apply in contract ( Chapman v Ellesmere [ 1932 ] 2 KB 431 ) . |
| 28 | Similarly We , Us , Our can refer to the protagonists in the poems but it can also describe the opinions or reactions of mankind at large ( 59 , 60 , 116 , 118 ) . |
| 29 | Making replicas of existing chairs is generally done to extend sets of antique chairs , but it can also prove a very useful introduction to chair-making techniques . |
| 30 | 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 . |