Example sentences of "it can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Westminster Government 's small majority , its situation is precarious and especially so in Scotland , where it is supposed to be doing all it can to mend its battered fences . |
| 2 | Like GNOMES , hillmen avoid the sunlight , for it can strike them blind . |
| 3 | Every professional knows that if he holes a few of those vital putts of eight feet or more , it can transform his whole round and maybe make him into a winner . |
| 4 | It can get nowhere , it can move nothing . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) It can move itself and has biological needs ( not just for food and warmth and the like , but the need to use its faculties — Functionlust as it was once called by a German psychologist ) . |
| 6 | It reaches 12″ long and has been bred in captivity — but in outdoor ponds where it can burrow its distinctive hiding place in the bank . |
| 7 | If you are an enthusiastic gardener you 'll know how valuable a convenient work space is and how it can revitalise your whole approach to gardening throughout the year . |
| 8 | Only time will tell whether it can hold its place in this competitive field . |
| 9 | The tie-up with Sun is part of CDC 's plan to broaden the range of hardware platforms on which it can offer its software in its new role as an integration outfit rather than a hardware manufacturer . |
| 10 | It can offer something different from both NATO and the European Communities , in the case of the former because it can concentrate on a European rather than a trans-Atlantic perspective , and in the second because since 1973 neutral Ireland has been a member of the Communities . |
| 11 | If they do not match your specific interests , take a look at a good shareware catalogue to see if it can offer something closer to your heart . |
| 12 | It can offer you just about everything you can think of by day and by night , in abundance . |
| 13 | If it chooses to interfere , it can formulate its decision in the words : ‘ The court below had no jurisdiction to decide this point wrongly as it did . ’ |
| 14 | TV can pull people up and it can pull them down . |
| 15 | Such a client may accept a supplementary invoice for an additional 17.5% if it can reclaim it all . |
| 16 | ‘ It can sense something here . |
| 17 | It knew that I could sense it , just as it can sense me . ’ |
| 18 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 19 | ‘ It can affect their children 's health , ’ he said . |
| 20 | they can erm it can affect them in their later life and they hit out at people to show their affection . |
| 21 | It can affect anyone whose work involves specific repetitive movements : gardeners , hairdressers , cleaners , chicken gutters , writers and musicians , as well as the sportsmen and women whose activities can lead to aptly named conditions such as tennis elbow . |
| 22 | ( Note this may not be anything to do with this relationship but it can affect it . ) |
| 23 | When Ian becomes uptight it can affect his game . |
| 24 | If you get the stuff on your face your skin and all this it can ruin your washing , if you do n't get the soap out of your washing then it 's clingy . |
| 25 | It 's for your own sake , because the o if the oil gets underneath the skin it can irritate your skin . |
| 26 | It can change its leaders and policies but not its path . |
| 27 | Grown men are still aware of this potential loss of self , and many have an instinctive fear of the ‘ devouring ’ quality of women , since it can threaten their personal integrity . |
| 28 | It can leave one hopelessly confused as new fitness fashions go in and out of vogue and you come into the orbit of different coaches . |
| 29 | It can take the state or any other form of political organisation or it can leave it alone . |
| 30 | It can leave you like a stranded whale , feeling breathless , helpless and useless . |