Example sentences of "it can [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adobe Systems Inc has licensed its PostScript software to Sony Corp so that it can offer a new software Raster Image Processor based on the Configurable PostScript Interpreter to be integrated into its existing News Unix workstations that drive output devices and are targeted for the Japanese market . |
| 2 | But apart from looking good , a headboard has other useful purposes — it can offer a comfortable support to rest against and also protects the wall behind it from wear and tear . |
| 3 | Despite the latter 's continuous nature it can accommodate a certain degree of selectivity when it comes to vibrations . |
| 4 | Mostly our air arrives from the west which is why we sit up and take notice of the weather in America , although actually it can change a great deal on the way over here . |
| 5 | It can be heady stuff , it can be a pleasant experience , or it can leave a nasty taste in the mouth and cost a great deal . |
| 6 | This is a very basic pattern but it can alter a plain garment dramatically . |
| 7 | Unless it can effect a remarkable recovery , the factory may well disappear back into the bleak and sodden marshes of Essex from which it emerged nearly 60 years ago . |
| 8 | I am by no means gloomy about the prospects for British Coal , but its future success and security depend on its becoming more competitive and productive so that it can secure a large part of the British energy market in years ahead . |
| 9 | It can fetch a high price . |
| 10 | It can involve a simple space plan of the existing building to provide a more flexible and efficient layout or alternatively , it can be used as the basis to calculate the required floor area for a new building . |
| 11 | If the Commission thinks the case admissible and worth proceeding with , it sees if it can achieve a friendly settlement . |
| 12 | The selling agent , Ellis ( 01-706 0844 ) , says it can arrange a Swiss mortgage to finance up to 60 per cent of the purchase price of the property — but remember that if you borrow in Swiss francs and the pound falls against the Swiss currency , the amount and cost of your mortgage could rise . |
| 13 | Or it can negotiate a new deal with the Justice Department — with no guarantee that this will be any more acceptable to Judge Holland . |
| 14 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 15 | That had n't cost a couple of pounds — it can cost a small fortune . |
| 16 | — it can export its product for sale in the foreign country — it can appoint a foreign company to manufacture its product under licence — it can invest in the foreign country ( i.e. obtain premises , plant and workforce there ) and manufacture its own product abroad . |
| 17 | The annotated drawing can then be kept as a record of the child 's ideas , and it can form a useful part of teacher assessment . |
| 18 | Later in the profession it can vary a great deal . |
| 19 | Such weakness stops Midland from generating much-needed capital : it can retain a mere £300m this year . |
| 20 | But it can place a large burden on operators and travel agents and any increases in the size of the bond are seen as likely to further the pressures for rationalization in the industry . |
| 21 | In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years . |
| 22 | Even on the richest land drought is damaging , but in a garden with sharp-draining soil — especially on a hot , south-facing site — it can create a positive dust bowl , a place where plants just do n't seem to survive . |
| 23 | It has a fearful chip above the right eye but it can stand a few chips . |
| 24 | It is a particularly potent device for signal analysis since it can perform a 1024 point FFT in under 700µs . |
| 25 | The Labour Party has not yet decided how it can stop a single-chamber Parliament from abusing its position . |
| 26 | The advantage of this type of planning is considerable and , if the organization involves teachers other than heads and deputies , it can permeate a whole school without difficulty . |
| 27 | On the way to Barcelona , the Olympic torch pays a little detour to Benidorm where it can ignite a real roarer of a bonfire in which anybody in possession of a ‘ Brits on the piss ! ’ |
| 28 | And of course with it being heavier than air it does tell you it can give a nasty headache , cause drowsiness , etcetera etcetera . |
| 29 | As XPS is useful for the study of surfaces it can give a good deal of information about species adsorbed on catalysts . |
| 30 | The health authority , one of the 30 most efficient in the country , is consulting on third-wave trust status because it believes that it can give a better service to patients and local people on that basis . |