Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ god ’ and corresponding religion that can serve the human need , must be produced by mankind itself , that is , the ‘ god ’ must be created by life and man 's intelligence , not life created by ‘ god ’ . |
| 2 | I believe that the creation of the universe and all that that involves , is still a mystery and forms no part of the conception of a god and a corresponding religion that can fulfil the human need . |
| 3 | All stressed skin structures exhibit a minimum surface tension that can contain the applied forces . |
| 4 | The mechanisms to achieve this and an assessment of the errors involved are documented , together with an explanation of new and promising possibilities to relate polling districts and enumeration districts that can exploit the increased use of postcodes by the 1991 census . |
| 5 | The works of mercy and the virtues together show that combination of active life and inner condition that can counteract the subversive activities of the seven sins : pride , envy , wrath , gluttony , covetousness , sloth and lechery . |
| 6 | Taylor runs a government funded research team which is trying to develop a computer that can make the right tactical decisions as consistently as the top 10 per cent of generals . |
| 7 | The advocacy of spending is concentrated in vocal and influential communities and client groups that can affect the electoral chances of politicians . |
| 8 | Environmentalists fear that the arrival in Guyana of Barama Ltd — a partnership between Samling Timbers of Malaysia and Sunkyong Ltd of South Korea — may herald a new era of expansion by companies that can see the approaching end of their domestic lumber supply . |
| 9 | Finally , I shall attempt to devise a synthesis that can incorporate the successful features of several theoretical approaches ( including aspects of the attentional theories discussed in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 10 | Persistent infections occupy the middle ground between acute life-threatening infections that can overcome the immune and interferon systems , and infections that readily succumb to these defences — albeit after a short burst of disease . |
| 11 | Buyers receive a deed confirming ownership of a plot and can visit the whole forest whenever they want . |
| 12 | Of capuchin monkeys in Amazonia , brown capuchins with heavy jaws can open palm fruits and can survive the dry season on them , though the whitefronted capuchins can not , such that in the dry season , 90% of their food is figs . |
| 13 | The judge is free to impose any sentence and can send the convicted individual to prison or hospital . |
| 14 | Due around the same time , TPI is designed to give developers the basic tools that they need to build applications that can use the wide area network technology . |
| 15 | Beverley has set about the task of designing monoclonals that can recognise the surfactant material and therefore indicate its presence or absence in the lungs of newborn babies . |
| 16 | Council tenants , perhaps the ‘ fortunate few ’ in villages that do not have many local authority houses , are usually the more poorly paid rural workers and can include the homeless and ex-tied-cottagers rehoused under statutory obligations of councils . |
| 17 | When people are feeling wound up , there are different things that can unleash the barbed remark : another small demand for their attention , a lost key , not being taken seriously enough by the person to whom they are cataloguing the disasters of the day , or TOO MUCH NOISE . |
| 18 | → There are a number of suppliers that can provide the correct style bridge and also the string ferrules for the back of the body — look in the classified section at the back of this issue . |
| 19 | As has been shown in detail elsewhere ( Hanko 1986 , 1987 , 1989 ) , knowledge that can highlight the underlying issues has to be supplemented , and skills have to be developed in the group , which the designated supporter will have been applying in his work with children , but now has to redeploy for work with fellow professionals . |
| 20 | Another factor in the pupil 's near environment that can affect the comfortable use of vision for work is the ‘ fit ’ of the furniture ( chair , desk , table ) in terms of individual requirements . |
| 21 | And so , when the manager gets to 60 or so and is given his carriage clock and company pension ( if he is lucky ) , there is somebody to take over who knows the right people and can do the right things . |
| 22 | Robert Williams has made a bright start to the season and can continue the good work by winning the Jonnie Mullings Memorial Handicap for his new main owner Lord Matthews . |
| 23 | BP Solar is developing a technology based on an alternative semiconductor that can absorb the whole solar spectrum in about one-thousandth of a millimetre of material . |
| 24 | It can only be a reliance on public ignorance that can allow the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , and other Tories , to spread lies about the social chapter of the Maastricht treaty . |
| 25 | If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons . |
| 26 | ACET ca n't replace family and friends but can provide the practical care and support to enable people with HIV/AIDS related illnesses to stay at home . |
| 27 | Make sure you choose a model that can increase the normal temperature to that required for propagation . |
| 28 | John McIlwraith , Balig , Ayr , chairman of the BSS UK , says the Beltex is the terminal sire that can deliver the right type of lamb at the right weight and with a conformation that is accepted in Europe as second to none . |
| 29 | Its sole aim is to set you thinking along constructive lines , to indicate what is possible , to advise on the best sources of information and to help you avoid the pitfalls that can trap the unwary . |
| 30 | It is only by experiment , experience and observation of the sensitivity of each patient that can determine the optimum size of dose to give . |