Example sentences of "[subord] it can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether , Scorpius has much to offer , though it is of course best seen from southern latitudes , where it can pass over the zenith . |
| 2 | The safest way to introduce it is in the skimmer , where it can sterilize the water as it passes through . |
| 3 | Some of the greatest sufferers in this respect are such prized works as Jane Austen 's , where it can make a surprising difference to the price . |
| 4 | These rate CCG 's level of service , allowing the company to identify areas where it can make improvements . |
| 5 | From the group 's perspective , it desires to be involved where it can influence the final shape of a policy so that it maximizes the benefits and minimizes the losses to its members . |
| 6 | Potentially damaging conflict between these subgroups is avoided by channelling mutual competition into an avenue where it can benefit the group as a whole . |
| 7 | Capital , very often originating from abroad , is being concentrated more in the industrial centres , not just towns but big cities where it can prosper . |
| 8 | Keep your front guard hand close to your face where it can give protection . |
| 9 | Normally groundwater supplies are of high quality and need little treatment , but the source of groundwater is rainfall that percolates through the soil , where it can dissolve substances , man-made or natural , beneficial or deleterious , present in the soil . |
| 10 | It reaches 12″ long and has been bred in captivity — but in outdoor ponds where it can burrow its distinctive hiding place in the bank . |
| 11 | Where it can pick up everybody 's conversation . |
| 12 | Among other things , Christopher said Western assistance must be better co-ordinated and targeted where it can have the greatest impact . |
| 13 | Where a government is very keen to press on with its programme , and where it can foresee that it would otherwise be frustrated by pressure of time , it can move that a timetable be adopted for a particular measure and , if the House so resolves , the Business Committee of the House will arrange a programme for a particular Bill , setting aside a specific number of days for each stage . |
| 14 | The ostrich , on the other hand , will eventually be able to return to the spot it knows so well , where it can resume its parental duties . |
| 15 | Research in HCI has now reached a stage where it can begin to tackle these problems effectively . |
| 16 | A teaching carrel may also be found in some well-equipped reference libraries , where it can take the form of an enclosed cubicle large enough for one person , with a door and a high window . |
| 17 | Does the Minister support British Rail 's policy of siting freight depots only where it can find developers to put money into facilities around the depot ? |
| 18 | Although it can choose whether to sell bonds or Treasury bills , it can not decide just who is to purchase them — banks/discount houses , the general public or foreigners . |
| 19 | It used to be considered a deformity in other breeds and led to automatic culling , but in several continental breeds it is now selected for , although it can lead to problems in calving and perhaps fertility . |
| 20 | Additive processes could hardly be simpler although it can lead to procedures of great complexity : a musical phrase of a certain number of notes is repeated several times , one note is then added and the new phrase again repeated . |
| 21 | Although it can extend an individual life , continued grafting eventually brings death without issue ; and likewise sexual generation in unchanging conditions brings death , extinction of the species , without issue . |
| 22 | All forms of the disease begin as tuberculosis of the lung although it can affect other organs including the membranes encasing the brain and spinal cord , the bones , joints and kidneys . |
| 23 | Again , although it can tolerate freshwater for a while it is best kept in brackish water graduating to marine water prior to maturity . |
| 24 | A dissenting member can not claim material breach of the constitutive treaty by the organisation , since the organisation is not a party to the treaty , although it can make such a claim against other member States . |
| 25 | Thus , the FIATA freight forwarder is not generally the actual carrier of the goods , although it can carry the cargo in vehicles or vessels it owns or has leased or of which it is the designated operator . |
| 26 | Knill said that without such commissioned research ‘ there would be a massive depletion in environmental research in this country ’ , although it can distract the scientists . |
| 27 | The Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies is closely tied to the LL.M. and M.Sc. , although it can stand as an independent qualification when it consists of study and examination in three courses selected from the LL.M or M.Sc. |
| 28 | Visual handicap is not going to elicit a common response to situations although it can impose some shared problems . |
| 29 | It usually takes several days for the pain to subside , although it can linger for weeks . |
| 30 | Although it can become distracting if the children always want to use it when you 're working as a whole group , there may be times when you want everybody to take a piece of cloth and make themselves something with it — a headband or a belt in a particular colour , for example to identify them as belonging to a particular group . |