Example sentences of "and it can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 2 | The memory can store information which is put in , so that this information can be used again and it can hold a set of instructions for the computer to carry out . |
| 3 | In addition to its magical effects , the clock can lash out with its pendulum chains ( which are amazingly ‘ elastic ’ ) , and it can generate illusory Clone Images of itself . |
| 4 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 5 | It can manage the affairs of the state very well and it can improve the citizens . |
| 6 | Liability arises only when there is a nuclear incident which occurs at or in connection with certain nuclear installations , or in the course of transport of nuclear substances , and it can arise only in connection with licensed nuclear sites . |
| 7 | Orally created music can be commodified ( performances by ‘ traditional ’ singers , sold through concerts ) and it can assume forms showing certain types of hierarchy and functional specialization ( West African drum orchestra music , Balinese gamelan music ) . |
| 8 | It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden , and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads . |
| 9 | Subsequently the central department can influence events by issuing circulars , guiding , instructing or exhorting the local authorities , and it can carry out inspections , exercise confirmatory and adjudicatory powers and so forth . |
| 10 | Defended flowers can therefore be exploited more efficiently and it can pay a sunbird to defend a territory . |
| 11 | Infection too can involve discomfort and absence from work ; and it can mean isolation . |
| 12 | It can mean to hold an opinion or a belief , it can mean to reflect , it can mean to have an idea , and it can mean to wish . |
| 13 | You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . |
| 14 | And it can continue to press its claims beyond divorce and even the death of one partner . |
| 15 | The card often has its own processor , typically on 80186 or 80188 , and it can relieve the main CPU of some of the donkey work of controlling a hard disk . |
| 16 | Right yes it 's like fractions it can show you things and it can show you it as a sort of fraction . |
| 17 | There is no way it will bend and it can break en route too easily . |
| 18 | So and it can break up a long session it can it can maintain interest . |
| 19 | A fire can start in the home and it can start very very easily . |
| 20 | This can be hung on a classroom wall and it can double as a speaker for audio machines . |
| 21 | This is a sovereign Parliament , and it can decide anything that it likes . |
| 22 | It squeezes the latest digital technology into a manageable package of 13kg ( 29lb ) ; and it can talk to any of the four Inmarsat satellites that hover 36,000km ( 22,500 miles ) above the earth . |
| 23 | The barn owl preys on the most abundant small mammal species available , and it can adapt to different sized prey depending on availability . |
| 24 | And it can make a good soup , if well cooked . ’ |
| 25 | Aversion to washing and it can make the skin worse ( < ) ; worse ( < ) for water and bathing . |
| 26 | Ah every two hours and it can make it every every hour . |
| 27 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 28 | The pidgin form used ( and it can exist with or without fixed English syntactic markers ) has naturally given way in the USA and Scandinavia to a greater interest and access to the sign language as used by deaf people . |
| 29 | This unconscious repressed material is in addition to the general unconscious ‘ archaic heritage ’ Le Bon speaks of , and it can vary in different times and places , although Freud does not give explicit examples of this point , being content with the formal delineation of concepts . |
| 30 | It provides substantial life cover … and it can give you a big tax-free payout . |