Example sentences of "[that] it can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 's the general audacity of the tax system , which was to , to ripe money of us so that it can give us we can spend our money on rubbishing layabouts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It does not exclude anything ; but that is not to say that it can attain everything . |
| 4 | The 1938 Act was repealed and replaced by the Inheritance ( provision for Family and Dependants ) Act 1975 , which increases the range of dependants who may apply for provision on death and gives the court wider powers than previously existed so that it can make whatever type of order may be most appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The 1992 UN conference on the environment could be the right place for an analytical look at what the world needs to do to ensure that it can feed its vulnerable populations in the next country . |
| 7 | So good that it can do it almost without help from history : it manages to turn 20th-century products into cult objects of British tradition . |
| 8 | It offers not a concrete image of history but an abstract schema of men making history of such a kind that it can manifest itself in the trend of their lives as a synchronic totality . |
| 9 | The other thing about celebrity , of course , is that it can earn you a decent living — although usually only after years of struggle , as with most jobs . |
| 10 | These set the minimum amount of capital ( free assets , or the amount by which an insurers ' assets exceed the actuarial calculation of its liabilities ) that an insurer must have to reassure customers and regulators that it can meet its liabilities . |
| 11 | These relatively low interest rates make it an attractive source of finance to borrowers , and the fact that it is a non-profit-making organization means that it can involve itself in socially oriented projects which may have long pay-off periods . |
| 12 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 13 | The shape of the box is determined largely by the shape and size of the printer and the box is placed around the printer so that it can perform its function of reducing the decibel level emanating from the printer . |
| 14 | That requires the Bill to be revived tonight so that it can continue its progress . |
| 15 | I am sure that West Yorkshire will welcome any assistance that the schemes can give , and will also appreciate that its rate support grant has increased by 16 per cent. , but that does not mean that it can bring its force up to the required standard . |
| 16 | To do this , it will have a derived demand for manufacturing equipment , components , steel , lubricants and the like , so that it can satisfy its own customers . |
| 17 | How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm |
| 18 | Now the important thing about the toxin is not so much that it can paralyse its victim , but that biologists can use it , and they can use it because it 's possible to label the toxin radioactively and then employ this to look at the distribution of receptors in patients with miocenia and characterise the receptors in other ways . |
| 19 | Try not to respond the moment it ceases as this suggests to the dog that it can get its own way by behaving in this fashion . |
| 20 | That it can occur nobody denies — witness the report of HM Inspectors on secondary education in England , in which they lament the narrowing effect on the curriculum of public examinations . |
| 21 | The fact is that Labour wants to keep the poll tax so that it can attack us with it . |
| 22 | When reclaiming such land , it may be necessary to provide the first pioneer crops with a direct injection of nutrients through chemical fertilizers but it should always be remembered that the aim is to build up the life in the soil so that it can provide its own fertility within the land potential . |
| 23 | That these implications of Moore 's methodology seem strange might only show that it can guide us to unexpected ethical truths . |
| 24 | If the prey can themselves move , the predator will have to be able to move faster , or with sufficient stealth that it can catch its prey without a long chase . |
| 25 | It means that it can use its paper to finance the bid without using its cash resources or resorting to further borrowing . |
| 26 | ‘ It is of great importance that the UK should not appear to turn its back on Europe , so that it can play its full part in negotiations , ’ the peers say in a report rushed out yesterday ahead of the Strasbourg talks . |
| 27 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 28 | Part of the beauty of scientific study is that it can take you in a number of different directions , expected and unexpected . |
| 29 | The GMC may have its hands tied in terms of the disciplinary action that it can take itself , but it is in a position to collect information that could be used by other interested bodies . |
| 30 | A staff function should be positioned so that it can funnel its services to the organisational levels who may be the public face of the organisation to outside groups . |