Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] it can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |
| 2 | For instance , it would like to know whether an endorsing company has to adopt everything COSE ratifies or whether it can pick and choose . |
| 3 | For instance , it would like to know whether an endorsing company has to adopt everything COSE ratifies or whether it can pick and choose . |
| 4 | ‘ Secondly , we do not consider that in circumstances such as those alleged in the present case section 2(1) ( b ) has any application ; nor that it can provide the basis for any defence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is , however , equally true that Parliament can not stop Frenchmen smoking on the streets of Paris ( or , for that matter , Englishmen smoking on the streets of London ) and that it can make it a crime for a man not to turn into a woman . |
| 7 | This rationalization for state intervention on efficiency grounds presupposes that government can determine the socially desirable rate of investment and innovation , and that it can take a dispassionate , long-term view of these investment possibilities , rather than make short-run responses to the demands of political interests . [ … ] |
| 8 | I take good care to emphasise that the sensation as we stall and recover is not a symptom and that it can occur in normal flight and in some cases when the aircraft flies through turbulence . |
| 9 | A company is regarded as dormant : in any period during which no transaction occurs which must be recorded in the company 's books , and if it can claim small company exemptions under s.246 , or could have but for belonging to an ineligible group , and is not required to produce group accounts . |
| 10 | ‘ We are committed to retaining the nuclear option for the future , provided the industry can demonstrate that nuclear generation is economic and provided it can meet rigorous standards of safety and environmental protection . ’ |
| 11 | Unless the Labour leadership recognises publicly that some form of Scottish parliament must come first on its political agenda and unless it can bring itself to co-operate enthusiastically with the SNP and Liberal parties to achieve this , nothing will continue to happen . |
| 12 | However , composers very frequently use a free ordering of the note-material at such points : This is an excellent method of serial usage , and because it can produce a varied horizontal flow of notes in each part , a single version of a series can be used for a long piece ( Luigi Nono 's choral-orchestral work Il canto sospeso , for example , is written entirely with one series , never transposed and always in its ‘ O ’ form ) . |
| 13 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 14 | The Swindon Works only closed in 1986 and since it can take many years for asbestos to affect people 's health , she expects to be dealing with similar cases well into the next century . |
| 15 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 16 | The only way out of this conundrum would be to argue , not only that the contents of the bracket are for the tribunal , but that it can alter these at will , and put any other contents in their place at any time . |
| 17 | Careful instruction on its use is necessary : the user needs to understand that it is not a miracle cure but that it can provide real if limited help . |
| 18 | UI , an $11m affair , wants to retain its input into X/Open , but unless it can come to an arrangement over some other form of membership which OSF has so far failed to secure , it is likely to turn in its cards at the end of the year . |
| 19 | I agree that this scheme is significant not only because of what may be achieved for good in the north-west , but because it can act as a model for planning for other areas and for other denominations . |
| 20 | But before it can become law , the bill needs to be approved by the Senate , where it is expected to become the target of pro-hunting amendments . |