Example sentences of "[conj] can [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late yesterday , the two companies were due to announce Windows Telephony , which aims to make it easier for software applications that can link to a wide range of telephone equipment , from PABXes to cellular telephone exchanges . |
| 2 | One possibility is to make a short section of DNA or RNA that can bind to a particular region of viral genetic material to form a double-stranded complex , just like the familiar double helix of cellular DNA . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've got expensive computer systems and expensive professionals on board that can cope with a large chain of shops . |
| 4 | Geographical Information Systems that can run on a personal computer are now becoming available ; examples are SPANS and PC-ARC/INFO . |
| 5 | Watchd is composed of distributed algorithms that can run on a single machine or a network of machines . |
| 6 | Now also , knowing that there 's only just over five hundred or just six hundred members of the Liberal Democrats , in the eight constituencies that comprise our Euro constituency , there will be many benefits that can come off a Euro campaign in terms of membership , in terms of helpers , in in terms of morale and generally raising our profile , just through press contacts and things like that . |
| 7 | Like the other parties , it knows full well that extremism is the worst thing that can happen to a good cause . |
| 8 | That is the worst thing that can happen to a human being . |
| 9 | On the back of the video cases are detailed typewritten performance descriptions that can read like a Chinese restaurant menu . |
| 10 | Assuming the no-arbitrage condition is correct in the absence of transactions costs , these transactions costs set upper and lower bounds on the departures from this condition that can occur in a competitive market . |
| 11 | Primitive , limited creatures that can survive on a small repertoire of set-behaviour schemata do not play in infancy . |
| 12 | It is my experience that many students of English Literature with good A-level results dislike poetry , or at least feel baffled by it , and can go through a three-year degree course without this attitude being radically changed . |
| 13 | Luckily , the Oase pump is ‘ pokey ’ and can cope with a considerable head without appreciable loss of flow rate . |
| 14 | She ‘ would prefer to think of different languages as having the potential to exploit differing degrees of subjectivity ’ but she does not think there is ‘ any neutral ontology or world view which is objective and can serve as a universal yardstick . |
| 15 | The Trailer is ‘ bookable ’ and can travel within a 100 mile radius of Uppingham . |
| 16 | When you click on it you get a pop out menu of four icons and can choose between a solid colour , a hatched pattern , a gradient fill or a bitmap . |
| 17 | They are extremely economic and can run as a single generator , providing heat , hot water and electricity , or as part of a district heating system where a network of houses or commercial buildings are linked up . |
| 18 | Resource charts show money , manhours , mandays , manweeks , percentage reference as the vertical scale and can focus on a single assignment , project or the entire plan to form a cost-schedule graph . |
| 19 | Walking makes you slim , builds cardiovascular fitness , and can develop into a long term habit that you can use for the rest of your life . |
| 20 | 1 — in west half of room , stunned , unable to move or attack or cast spells for D4 rounds , but can parry with a -20 penalty . |
| 21 | It was just about as bad an accident as can happen to a nuclear-power station — an explosion and a fire that scattered fissile fuel all over the site and sent radioactive smoke and dust across thousands of square miles . |