Example sentences of "[that] can [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also points out the importance of the older person having some privacy however dependent he or she becomes , with a room that can double as a sitting room and includes , if possible , TV , electric kettle , cups , and so on , so that there is an independent place to be . |
| 2 | For example , people who wish to record the activity of single cells in the brains of freely moving animals argue about whether to use very fine electrodes that can record from even the smallest cells but give very unstable recordings , or to use larger electrodes that bias the sample to larger cells but give more stable recordings ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds et al . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the high-end 620 chip , for moderately to massively parallel servers , is said to be being set for 64 bits with a special environment mode bit that can switch between 32- and 64-bit operation . |
| 4 | Happier are those that can switch between roles as and when conditions dictate . |
| 5 | A sharp energy , called the mobility edge , separates these ‘ localised ’ states from the ‘ delocalised ’ or ‘ current-carrying ’ ones , which contain electrons that can range throughout the semi-conductor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There are corresponding improvements in the LAN arena , where new technologies involving fibre optic cable and improved approaches to routing traffic will not only increase the volume of traffic that can pass over the network , but also extend the distance it can travel . |
| 8 | The regulation is thus achieved by defining roles , or areas of responsibilities , for individuals and groups , and formalizing the means of communication that can pass between them . |
| 9 | It 's called the laserball ; a sit in gyroscope that can rotate in any direction . |
| 10 | Sociobiologists discuss genes for male chauvinism , feminism , communism and perhaps even belief in the tooth fairy , with the solemnity once reserved for debates on the number of angels that can dance on a pin head . |
| 11 | More importantly we urgently need a limit on the amnount of packaging chemicals that can migrate into food . |
| 12 | We do n't ever REVIEW beta test software — there 's just too much that can change between us seeing early versions and the code being finalised , and that means that what you see reviewed might not be what you will buy . |
| 13 | Where are the rules that can legislate for someone like that ? he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) . |
| 14 | The importance of the former for the latter is not at all diminished by exhibiting languageless creatures that can associate across modes . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that to suggest that there is one kind of school that can cater for the needs of all kinds of pupils is an example of the naive theorising that has caused so many problems in education , which we are seeking to address today ? |
| 16 | To be able to join these co-ordinates together in order to recreate the shape there must be some form of movement and so the pen is fixed to a travelling gantry that can move in the × axis ( left and right ) while the pen moves along the gantry in the y axis ( up and down ) . |
| 17 | The records are not hand-written ; they are more focused and less personal due to the wider audience , the variety of sources that can input to a debate is world-wide and some avenues of thought will survive through this to meet success which would have withered in a smaller community ; response time is faster and , confident in the formal date stamping and public manner of their input , scientists are more willing to share information earlier . |
| 18 | Lenin contrasted two types of development that can result from the penetration of capitalism in agriculture : the Kulak or American path and the Junker path . |
| 19 | My work in the 1970s focused on the black holes that can result from such stellar collapse and the intense gravitational fields around them . |
| 20 | The new athletic demands on untrained muscles and tendons produce the inflammation , pain and weakness that can result in severe and permanent disability . |
| 21 | That such genes exist is shown by the many mutants in the genes of mice that can result in abnormal limb development . |
| 22 | Also , deviant behaviour is behaviour that can result in some form of punishment ; and this punishment can be either a formal , legal punishment or take the form of social and moral disapproval . |
| 23 | Conditions that can result in a need for supplements include peptic ulcer , hiatus hernia and diverticular disease which can lead to iron-deficiency anaemia . |
| 24 | To be strictly accurate a species can be defined precisely only in living animals , where it refers to populations that can interbreed under natural conditions , and which produce offspring that are capable of further reproducing their kind . |
| 25 | or Alan been on the standard course that can go on the A L O course . |
| 26 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 27 | The British food industry responds to consumer demands for meals that can go from freezer to microwave to table within minutes . |
| 28 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 29 | However , despite this disappointing state of affairs , we identified some encouraging developments in several countries that can serve as guide posts to more appropriate and effective development and deployment of professional and paraprofessional resources . |
| 30 | An airfield that can serve as a focus for , and a monument to , an era of aviation long gone . |