Example sentences of "[noun] it can [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not sure what good it can do but I 've been thinking over what you said about Barney Willard . |
| 2 | The speaking clock is sponsored by a watchmaker , raising the awkward question of how much of a future it can have if everyone buys watches . |
| 3 | As most of the time taken is used up in searching through the various models the speed of the system will be a trade-off between the range of speakers it can understand and the number of words in the vocabulary . |
| 4 | ‘ What people do n't realise is how much distress it can cause when a horse is taken how much they become part of the family . ’ |
| 5 | A sensitivity to this type of variation should contribute towards pupils becoming more tolerant of linguistic diversity , more aware of the richness it can provide and more able to cope with problems of communication . |
| 6 | The louder it is , the more distant the object it can detect and the bats produce clicks which , if translated into frequencies that we can hear , would sound as loud as a pneumatic drill . |
| 7 | Used as a revision book it can prompt and encourage some self-questioning but it is too brief to use as a teaching document . |
| 8 | Glossy dark bronze-green foliage is widely held to be very resistant ; in some places it is , but in others it can look as though a flour sack has burst . |