Example sentences of "[noun sg] which can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Home Delivered Readers Club offers discount vouchers and a card which can result in big savings for the shopper . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Agriculture in Britain has developed a forecasting system based primarily on soil temperature in the early spring which can predict the likely severity of nematodiriasis . |
| 3 | This is crucial for large-scale societies such as nation-states which , by virtue of their size , demand some concretized form such as a monument which can serve as a focus for the populace 's identification with the state . |
| 4 | This is a magically-animated four-poster which can move and attack . |
| 5 | A rationale after a command which can obscure what is required and encourage the child to ask questions and side track , e.g. ‘ Please pick up your toys , you 've got a friend coming and I want your room to look tidy ’ . |
| 6 | On the other hand , they provide no support for the pipework which can cause the cistern to split or make the plumbing noisy if the pipes are not adequately supported in some other way . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe he is smart and intelligent enough to realise he is now at a club which can satisfy him emotionally . |
| 8 | He knows what he wants and is determined to build a club which can produce sustained success year in , year out . |
| 9 | The major problem with investigating the effects of human sexual scents is that many of our actions are dictated by our conscious mind which can moderate or overrule these unconscious influences . |
| 10 | Right : Pseudanthias pulcherimus is an example of the confusion which can arise when trying to identify fairy basslets . |
| 11 | Imagine a department which can see that it is going to overspend its budget . |
| 12 | Another sound recording problem is wind-noise off the micro-phone , and some camcorders are fitted with a wind-noise filter switch which can help to reduce this annoying fault . |
| 13 | Under a heavy parallel processing load , the whole thing will tend to slow down as the 10Mbps links clog , so at the SP1 's launch , the company concentrated on its new , high speed packet switch which can replace the Ethernet . |
| 14 | One kind of astrocyte and the oligodendrocytes are derived from a common dividing progenitor cell which can differentiate into either cell type . |
| 15 | At one stage in the lineage , for example , there is a cell which can produce either granulocytes or macrophages , and the decision to follow a macrophage or granulocyte pathway can be controlled by the concentration of a protein factor which , if the concentration is high enough , will direct differentiation exclusively along the macrophage pathway . |
| 16 | If it does , there is no institution which can intervene to regulate the practice except the police . |
| 17 | The common police services must be combined in a central police agency so that we can deal with serious and organised crime , not necessarily crime which immediately affects the lives of constituents but crime which can affect them through the stealing of their pension funds or the misappropriation of their assets and savings . |
| 18 | On average , smokers have more complications of pregnancy and labour which can include bleeding during pregnancy , premature detachment of the placenta and premature rupture of the membranes . |
| 19 | Although population pressure is the most common attribute of these peasantries and pastoralists , there are many cases where declines in population through outmigration or apocalyptic disasters ( e.g. Latin America during and after the Spanish Conquest , Boserup 1965 : 62–63 ) have led to a coarsening of agricultural technology , a labour-saving cropping pattern , and an allocation of labour which can encourage soil erosion ( e.g. Bunyard 1980 for Palestine ) . |
| 20 | It also has an astringent effect which can tighten skin , making wrinkles less noticeable . |
| 21 | But in music and poetry which aims at a higher aesthetic we have to avoid the trite effect which can result when words and music are in the same metre and move in identical rhythms . |
| 22 | Your body has to work that much harder to convert the additional carbohydrate into energy and it is this thermic effect which can burn off up to another 200–300 calories each day . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , it does get over the problem of matching actions over the cut which can occur with methods 1 and 2 . |
| 24 | The initial reaction is usually shocked disbelief which can last for a long period , while the person may feel very detached from the world or completely at sea . |
| 25 | In Final Honours year students may also make a submission which can take the form of compositions , or a dissertation , or an edition , or a portfolio of practical work , or a recital . |
| 26 | Competition from weeds , notably the grass Imperata which can inhibit forest regeneration , is also discouraged by these practices because of the fragmented pattern of bare ground and the shade effects of perennials which also contribute to the renewal of soil nutrient pools . |
| 27 | There is a small transparent species of rock anemone ( Aiptasia species , below ) which is often introduced by accident into the aquarium on pieces of living rock which can deliver a sting equal to any of the larger species . |
| 28 | Traditional views of family life are seen to be unsupported by research findings , but research can assist the identification and development of policies and good practice which can help children at risk and in need to become good parents in their turn . |
| 29 | The contestation of meaning can be regarded as a fundamentally transgressive practice which can have a liberating effect on the reader — hence his emphasis on the value of the ludic aspect of fractured narrative which had a ‘ carnivalesque ’ role ( almost in the Bakhtinian sense ) of freeing the reader . |
| 30 | Utilising Corollary 's Extended C-bus and the EISA I/O bus , the 486/smp XM is a dual-bus subsystem which can support up to 10 processors The personal computer-compatible set supports up to 256Mb RAM by virtue of the firm 's Extended C-bus and will run Santa Cruz Operation Inc 's SCO MPX 2.0 and Unix System Labs ' SVR4.0 MP . |