Example sentences of "it can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case the treatment team may have to accept that the best it can offer is long-term support and encouragement , with treatment sessions being non-contingent on repeats . |
| 2 | The best it can offer is bed and breakfast . |
| 3 | It may be that its functioning is impaired in various ways ; perhaps the extent to which it can suffer is impaired by the sensory deprivation . |
| 4 | How Eric copes with the numbers it can accommodate is a mystery , but it was the mysteries of his talent we were there to learn . |
| 5 | If discourses articulate concepts through a system or signs which signify by means or their relationship to each other rather than to entities in the world , and ir literature is a signifying practice , all it can reflect is the order inscribed in particular discourses , not the nature or the world . |
| 6 | One way it can start is through a childhood trauma — a sudden unpleasant shock involving a cat or a kitten . |
| 7 | The most it can do is draw with its opponent . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , there 's nothing it can do is there , what with RPI up 4.5 per cent and the current swingeing Bundesbank-fixed interest rates … ’ |
| 9 | What it can do is to stimulate interest and encourage teachers to think about the implications of their practices . |
| 10 | All it can do is say , ‘ I hate everybody and it 's not fair . ’ |
| 11 | All it can do is to cling to the roof of its gallery and there hundreds of them hang in rows . |
| 12 | Linguistics can not supply a key to the specific qualities of literature as such , or a guide to interpretation ; all it can do is provide the means for describing a text on the basis of a general linguistic theory , and therefore relate the text to the language as a whole in which it is written . |
| 13 | The most it can do is ’ raise issues ’ which go nowhere towards dealing with these . |
| 14 | As a result , the only thing that it can print is the 72dpi screen image and hence the resulting mess of your document . |
| 15 | And the one across was monopoly there 's no way it can fit is there ? |
| 16 | For a major chemicals company aiming to be an all-rounder , the sheer size of a petrochemicals operation and the cash it can generate is needed to complement the higher-value but far lower-tonnage manufacture of such products as pharmaceuticals . |
| 17 | So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said . |
| 18 | This animal does not hibernate , but stores food for the winter , which means that the damage it can cause is out of proportion to its diminutive size . |
| 19 | And this next stage really offers some potentially huge benefits because what it can allow is the integration of the corporate information systems and the requirements of the corporation as a whole to manage and exploit its information resource . |
| 20 | But the most important action that it can take is to enter into a programme with the IMF as soon as possible , on the back of which it will gain access to many western funds . |
| 21 | ‘ The number it can take is in the technical specifications . |
| 22 | One last compelling reason why diesel needs all the image-building it can get is the powerful petrol engine lobby , which includes manufacturers , motorists , and oil companies who would be stuck with an awful lot of petrol if the fashion should happen to change dramatically . |