Example sentences of "[vb -s] it can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then anyone who wants it can call us . |
| 2 | ‘ When this happens it can stop the oxygen supply . |
| 3 | Direct marketing is more sales oriented ; classical advertising says it can set the scene , build brand awareness , paint the big picture . |
| 4 | She says it can mean premature death . |
| 5 | If a manufacturer of a product says ‘ It can do this and that ’ then my expectation is that it will do exactly what the manufacturer says it can do . |
| 6 | It says it can make a profit by selling the data around the world — and save the US taxpayer cash by reducing public spending . |
| 7 | The selling agent , Ellis ( 01-706 0844 ) , says it can arrange a Swiss mortgage to finance up to 60 per cent of the purchase price of the property — but remember that if you borrow in Swiss francs and the pound falls against the Swiss currency , the amount and cost of your mortgage could rise . |
| 8 | He says it can distort bone structure , even cause heart problems . |
| 9 | Whenever I speak of it , he just says it can stay as it is in case I ever want it . |
| 10 | Rainbow says it can serve as an alternative to Sun 's internal host ID . |
| 11 | Following changes to the Open Software Foundation 's Motif 1.2 licensing terms , IXI says it can offer the Motif runtime for £50 in volume as opposed to OSF 's $2,000 source fee . |
| 12 | The National Farmers Union backs the setaside scheme … and says it can help wildlife : |
| 13 | Opponents strongly condemn the idea , but the company says it can provide a cleaner , more efficient jail , better for staff and inmates . |
| 14 | ‘ The administration says it can accept no amendments ; that its budget is untouchable . |
| 15 | It says it can accept these only under protest , a response apparently regarded as ungracious . |
| 16 | Sun reckons it can succeed in the PC business because the market is changing . |
| 17 | But although the centre has n't gathered everything under one roof , if it has n't got the information , it now reckons it can tell inquirers where to find it . |
| 18 | Elsewhere Sun Express reckons it can deliver products 20% below the cost on SMCC price lists — it offers no installation , service or support . |
| 19 | Now those companies that have built their own operating system ( and around 60% or more do in the real-time area ) can retain their investment and buy into the new operating system as the company reckons it can emulate any existing operating system . |
| 20 | The navy reckons it can buy updated versions of the McDonnell Douglas/Northrop A-18 for around $35m each — less capable , perhaps , than Grumman says its F-14 derivative would be , but with the defence budget under tremendous pressure , the ‘ sticker price ’ makes all the difference . |
| 21 | DEC reckons it can come closer to a unified Unix than any other supplier , and recently as last month freely admitted that its whole strategy is dependent on just such a gameplan ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 22 | There 's Sony Corp saying that by simply engraving a spiral groove on the surface of the platter , it reckons it can store 1.5Gb in a 2.5″ disk drive . |
| 23 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 24 | The adjustment to the indicative price is an art in that the purchaser takes account of the cost saving benefits it can bring to the vendor 's business , potential profit increases arising from market synergies and identified liabilities which may affect future profitability . |
| 25 | Thus if the polymer is atactic , that is , has no regular translational symmetry , it will form only an amorphous solid , whereas if stereo-regularity exists it can crystallize . |
| 26 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 27 | If we eat too much food high in saturates it can increase our blood cholesterol level and that in turn increases our risk of heart disease . |
| 28 | Using a real-life example that assumes it costs $5 a line to write code and that 100 lines of code can be written a day , SmartStar figures it can cut the cost of generating a trivial application to $750 compared with $12,000 using a tool kit and $7,000 using a Motif GUI builder . |
| 29 | It is worth emphasizing here that because an option has a finite life and expires it can involve the investor in a 100 per cent loss . |
| 30 | Britain still hopes it can persuade the UN agency to change its mind when a special committee on refugees from Indo-China resumes its meetings in mid-January . |