Example sentences of "[subord] it can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Second , the studio must still meet heavy interest payments until it can reduce its debt . |
| 4 | If they do not match your specific interests , take a look at a good shareware catalogue to see if it can offer something closer to your heart . |
| 5 | In the Australian experience referred to earlier , those engaged in the study of alternative community-based educational initiatives stressed the former rather than the latter , ‘ The innovating organisation will only survive if it can show them ( the statutory bodies and local power groups ) that its power is complementary rather than invasive . ’ |
| 6 | If it just flies by the compass , it will show an equivalent displacement from its goal ; if it can navigate it will reach its goal despite the displacement . |
| 7 | Such a client may accept a supplementary invoice for an additional 17.5% if it can reclaim it all . |
| 8 | If it can retain its customers ' faith it could achieve the leadership position it covets by 1997 . |
| 9 | Self help , if it can overcome its middle class bias , has considerable potential , but government support for the principle is conditional upon self help groups not threatening the status quo . |
| 10 | If it can teach us that love is the most powerful force in the world , we shall not have lived for nothing . |
| 11 | It would include things like a few national demonstration projects , encouragement of associations of private residential homes , encouragement of training programmes , there are one or two area in the country — eg Norfolk — where the health authority offers training to the private sector , on the grounds that if it can share its experience and expertise they can help boost the overall quality of care available within their area . |
| 12 | It is n't primarily there to facilitate exchanges , either ( though , if it can help it will ) . |
| 13 | But Korea may benefit if it can rid itself of corruption . |
| 14 | Either the commission intuitively knows how supply and demand will change — in which case the commission is miraculous but unnecessary — or else the commission is applying some other unspecified standards and judgements of its own — in which case the commission will be a tyrant if it can impose its decisions and a laughing stock if it can not . |
| 15 | Ferret space today 's date and see if it can find anything . |
| 16 | the ‘ fiction theory ’ must remain unsatisfactory unless it can explain what are the real facts in terms of individual rights and duties which underlie the fiction , and this it seems unable to do . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | awareness that it just stands and bleats and does nothing because it can do nothing ! |
| 19 | Perhaps more importantly , the government has backed away from declaring more UDCs partly because of the costs and adverse publicity but also because it can achieve its aim of driving local authorities into the arms of the private sector by other means . |
| 20 | It 's for each person , that 's why like the playwright does n't specify what each thing 's supposed to mean because it can mean whatever it wants to each member of the audience . |
| 21 | Everything is interpreted within the scheme ; it does not explain anything , because it can explain everything . |
| 22 | This belief distorts the past because it can see nothing good in it . |
| 23 | They 're being incredibly silly , they really ought not to do that , because it can impair their hearing for life . |
| 24 | Whatever we become aware of , we have attracted for a reason — because it can help us to learn and grow . |
| 25 | Grown men are still aware of this potential loss of self , and many have an instinctive fear of the ‘ devouring ’ quality of women , since it can threaten their personal integrity . |
| 26 | She also argues that , if an agency does not exercise detailed control , it nevertheless exercises the ultimate control of the worker , since it can withdraw him or refuse to offer him another assignment should his performance fail to meet required standards . |
| 27 | Only time will tell whether it can hold its place in this competitive field . |
| 28 | This is a year when a partnership is not only important in itself , but when you should ask whether it can take you where want to go . |
| 29 | In overall terms , between 1900 and the present day , the state apparatus for collecting and sorting criminal information has changed so dramatically that we must question whether it can supply us with a valid measuring-stick with which to compare the two periods . |
| 30 | I am not an uncritical admirer of the Labèque sisters : their performances can be uneven , and I have sometimes found them guilty of grabbing a composition by the collar and belting off with it before it can gets its breath . |