Example sentences of "it can [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Central Authority system has many advantages , but it can not of course ensure effective or speedy service .
2 It can not of course be the case that syntactic variables do not pattern socially or stylistically ; some of them plainly do , as the work of , for example , Cheshire has shown .
3 Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false .
4 It can not in reality be a rational actor in the game-theory sense of having a fixed order of priorities in its policy goals .
5 if the company resolves by extraordinary resolution to the effect that it can not by reason of its liabilities continue its business and that it is advisable to wind up .
6 It can also in effect make it impossible for them to participate in the community and thus deprives them of an important aspect of citizenship .
7 It must always involve an excess beyond the totality without which the totality could never be totalized , which must mean that it can never in fact be closed .
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