Example sentences of "[adj] can [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can make it very difficult to keep to the repayment plans , and the loss of home and fuel becomes more likely . |
| 2 | This can make it easier to arrive at the correct spot by varying the radius and steepness of the turn . |
| 3 | Some brushes are also angled and this can make it easier to reach some of the tooth surfaces , in the more difficult-to-reach places . |
| 4 | This can make it difficult for management to exercise control because orders tend to become more distorted as they pass through more layers ; 90 per cent compliance at each stage in the hierarchy implies less than 50 per cent compliance from one end to the other over seven stages ( see Williamson , 1975 , ch. 3 ) . |
| 5 | The nature of the choice of language is , of course , slightly different from that of most speaker/listeners : it is a more closed choice — ‘ dictated ’ by the clients , but this can make it more difficult , not less so , particularly since so much can depend on choosing appropriately and being able to do so both ways : clearly a community interpreter can not work brilliantly into one language and culture and poorly into the other . |
| 6 | Bet the bloke listening to this can hear it smell it . |
| 7 | LEFT Never ignore a young dog 's request to go out into the back yard because this can cause it to soil around the home , and inhibits the toilet-training process . |
| 8 | Very few can stand it . ’ |
| 9 | You can fly direct now the new seven four seven four hundreds can do it in one go . |
| 10 | Your personality , your way of doing things , your way of helping someone to dress , how you listen to them — all these can make it a Home where the residents feel secure , looked after and treated with dignity , as explained below : |
| 11 | And he tells me it 's quite easy his little boy of three can pronounce it quite easily . |
| 12 | The curists still come , it seems , to drink , gargle or bathe in the baths at the top of the town , but since the end of the last war the cure has been democratized ; in an age of health insurance many can afford it who before could not , and contemporary spa-goers both demand less and live less expensively than their more frivolous predecessors . |
| 13 | Once this is done the two can revert to their traditional roles , the writer supplying the copy and the art director suggesting how the visual can help it sell . |
| 14 | Surely , if someone has been convicted of possessing weapons or explosives , it is vital for the information to be passed on as quickly as possible , so that the officer concerned can take it into account . |
| 15 | A haulier can make it a condition that he incurs no liability under these circumstances : |
| 16 | But the Irish can work it , so why not others ? |
| 17 | Well you two can do it when you get back from the walk , just left me to do it |
| 18 | ‘ Only the lucky rich can do it , ’ said Bob . |
| 19 | As a result , I have booked the Welsh Young Farmers Pavilion on the Royal Welsh Showground , Llanelwedd for 7pm on Wednesday the 10th of June , in the hope that as many as possible can make it . |
| 20 | ‘ He is exciting and unpredictable and while that can make it difficult for others to play with him , it is also one of his great strengths . |
| 21 | He said and that can do it . |
| 22 | My Lord Mayor , after setting the parameters , I do feel that can continue it 's good relations with our other cities and use Brussels as a tool to this end . |
| 23 | I mean , we urgently certainly we can psychoanalyse a group , you know , the group psy the group psychology , because we all understand how groups act , and we can say , oh , yes groups act like that , you do act like that , that makes sense and that can prove it , you know . |
| 24 | Both can ask this , both can answer it , and both can see why the other gives the opposite reply . |
| 25 | interesting to note Norman Hunter saying he thinks they both can make it … especially newsome … |