Example sentences of "[that] it can [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |
2 | In Safrane , the engine has been deliberately tuned to favour torque output with the result that it can deliver 115 lb-ft from 1,500 rpm upwards — so producing an extremely flexible power curve . |
3 | Intuition is not enough when a school has to give assurances of quality and has to prove that it can control that quality . |
4 | In a democratic society , this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science , so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts . |
5 | I urge the local authority in Durham to develop a relationship with housing associations so that it can make faster progress in meeting the problems to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
6 | If multimedia has a future , it has nothing to do with the fact that it can do clever things . |
7 | To be fair , the government of Hong Kong has such pressing social problems on its hands that it can spare little time either for passing or , equally important , enforcing conservation laws . |
8 | Capitalism is not yet so triumphant that it can disregard moral dissent . |
9 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
10 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
11 | PR must then be a reasonable autonomous unit so that it can serve all departments equally . |
12 | But do you think that there 's some way that the NEA can be reformed or changed so that it can serve that purpose ? |
13 | One of the Packman 's most important claims is that it can handle all types and sizes of chemical pack . |
14 | It has retained the strong legs and good feet of a draught animal , so that it can travel long distances over rough terrain on the range , and it has proved able to withstand the stress of drought better than other Bos taurus breeds . |
15 | Most work has gone into tuning the machines for graphics work : the company reckons that it can out-perform conventional video adaptor boards with a combination of a Mach32 graphics accelerator , a 32-bit linear frame buffer and up to 2Mb of fast video RAM . |
16 | Net is also a general term , not specific to working girls ( prostitutes ) so that it can facilitate other ministries in the future . |
17 | Starting with 30 monitoring points , the system offers massive flexibility due to the fact that it can substitute two wires , punctuated by individually programmed chips , for the massive bunch of wires which would be needed by a conventional system . |
18 | A written sentence , on the other hand , can more easily be HYPOTACTIC , which means that it can have complex relations between its parts — one inside another , rather than just one after another . |
19 | In our electronic technology the discrete , digital locations have only two states , conventionally represented as 0 and 1 although you can think of them as high and low , on and off , up and down : all that matters is that they should be distinct from one another , and that the pattern of their states can be ‘ read out ’ so that it can have some influence on something . |
20 | Instead , try to pull over if possible and find somewhere to take the dog out of the car , in its travelling cage , so that it can have fresh air . |
21 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
22 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
23 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
24 | When temperate forests are cleared , the remaining ground is rich in organic matter , which means that it can withstand repeated ploughing , and supports good crops . |
25 | It has proved of benefit when used against herpes viruses or viral hepatitis for example , and researchers at the MRC 's Common Cold Unit in Wiltshire have shown that it can provide effective protection against colds . |
26 | The search for plurality both evaluates the text and yet leaves it intact so that it can yield more possibilities . |
27 | Might the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) want more money for Derbyshire so that it can employ more people such as his brother , who is employed as a personnel liaison officer for Toyota , his sister-in-law , who is employed in the county publicity department — — and such as another sister-in-law , who is employed in the education department ? |
28 | The advantage of the Helblaster is that it can fire several shots at once in a devastating volley . |
29 | There 's also a close correlation by not just the erm the size of the number for G , but how long can it go on pulling that G given the thrust and the aerodynamic capabilities of the machine and we are essentially building this aircraft so that it can sustain nine G and we are providing the pilot with the sort of equipment he requires to be able to survive in that kind of environment . |