Example sentences of "it can [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of these happens when the process can fail to terminate but there is no communication it can either accept or refuse . |
| 2 | It can thus check that it is on course . |
| 3 | It can both suggest that an effect previously believed to exist does not exist and that one thought not to exist does exist . |
| 4 | Thus , if a forest is managed to achieve maximum growth rather than maximum timber volume , a characteristic of mature climax forest , it can both thrive and produce a substantial harvest in the long term ( provided no exogenous effects such as climatic change occur and as long as soil nutrient status is maintained ) . |
| 5 | At one extreme it can mean a particular , rigidly constrained , language dependent structure , while at the other it can simply mean that subroutines or procedures are used . |
| 6 | It can also mean that there will be more work for the semantic analyser to perform since there are so many more combinations to check . |
| 7 | It can also happen that a Pump Wagon is obliged to move into friendly troops , although this is rare as you can move the machine as you wish . |
| 8 | It can also happen that a speaker is interrupted and leaves a tone-unit incomplete — for example , lacking a tonic syllable . |
| 9 | It can also imply that all the experiences and aspirations of their members are exhausted by the fact of racial subordination . |
| 10 | it can also accept that individuals are the unwitting servants of this process ; for Marxists , human actors are the carriers of the structural requirements of the capitalist system . |
| 11 | Where goods are marketed indirectly and the manufacturer therefore does not sell directly to the consumer , it can nevertheless happen that the manufacturer makes a collateral contract with the consumer . |
| 12 | And in so doing it can often convey that a past is not a thing to be discovered . |
| 13 | It can certainly happen that a head might at the same time be expected to manage the school democratically by the staff , deferentially by the governors , assertively by the local authority and pliantly by parents . |
| 14 | ‘ It can certainly wait until you get in , ’ Petronella said . |
| 15 | But it can then happen that these relations become a norm , from which other periods are interpreted or even , by contrast , judged . |
| 16 | Security means defence against all comers and contingencies ; as such , it can only materialise when the world is purged of uncertainty . |
| 17 | The hunt has strong religious overtones , and it can only succeed if harmony and peace prevail . |
| 18 | Partial offers are not very common in the UK because where the offer is for 30 per cent or more of the voting rights it can only succeed if shareholders holding over 50 per cent of the voting rights of the target company ( excluding those held by the offeror and its concert parties ) vote in favour of the offer ( Rule 36.5 ) . |
| 19 | Equally important is public confidence or acceptance of coinage ; as coinage is a convention , in the sense that its value is conventionally fixed by the authority of the state with the agreement of the public , it can only function if the value of the coinage , as fixed by the state , is accepted by those who use it ; otherwise , market forces will tend to discount overvalued coins towards their individual bullion values . |
| 20 | Taking responsibility for your joints and limbs — knowing that it can only enhance and better the quality of your life — is this easy ! |
| 21 | All in all , it can only mean that tea time is on the up and up . |
| 22 | If you follow the guidelines given in this book it can only help and certainly will not harm . |
| 23 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 24 | Marxist writers , and their supporters , argue that this latter approach can do nothing more than describe reality ; it can never explain and analyse the complex causal relationships of human existence , because research only concentrates on what is observable . |
| 25 | Though the dissolve has become part of film punctuation it can still shock or seduce the viewer . |
| 26 | The reverse also seems to be true : the energy plasma appears to be sensitive to psychic and thought forms , so that it can actually move or change shape according to the mind of the observer . |