Example sentences of "[adj] can [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can present a problem id you happen to be the unhappy owner of a particularly noisy air pump . |
| 2 | Ordering replenishment and display may be looked after by the publisher and this can lift a lot of the administrative burden of stock control from the shop , although they are normally offered only where sales justify it . |
| 3 | This can set a mood or enhance a period of reflection . |
| 4 | This can create a conflict of interest which needs careful management . |
| 5 | This can represent a route to technology evaluation at low risk to the user and there are many examples of useful ventures which have been developed in this way . |
| 6 | This can affect a customer 's credit use . |
| 7 | For a family of four this can mean a saving of up to £300 on a 14-night stay . |
| 8 | For many companies this can mean a saving of up to 10% per year on energy , maintenance and labour costs . |
| 9 | ‘ A boat like this can carry a lot of food and drink . ’ |
| 10 | They may pick on a teacher 's mannerisms , dress , or accent and discussion of something like this can dominate a session . |
| 11 | However , this can raise a number of tax issues . |
| 12 | It 's a well known fact that aircraft are sold all around the world , this can have a bearing on the capability and also a bearing on their cost and therefore saleability . |
| 13 | This can save a lot of time if there are many candidates who will all ask similar questions during the interview . |
| 14 | This can put a strain on the goodwill which usually exists between community workers and DHSS staff . |
| 15 | All this can produce a kind of madness . " |
| 16 | This can take a multiplicity of forms including signals , gestures , speech , letters , telex , telephone , morse code , fax , television and radio . |
| 17 | This can take a lot of ti me as it must proceed at the person 's own pace and not fit within the time span that the helper finds convenient or thinks sufficient . |
| 18 | This can add a degree of primitive charm to tribal rugs , however . |
| 19 | This can induce a feeling of insularity and reduce opportunities for residents ( Hillman and Whalley 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 21 | You attach a transmitter to the jesses and keep the receiver with you — this can pinpoint a bird within a hundred yards over a radius of fifteen miles . |
| 22 | 2 There needs to be greater attention to process in writing , though there is a danger that this can become an end in itself . |
| 23 | This can cause a cart-wheel and major damage or even injury . |
| 24 | This can provide a route into the body for HIV from infected semen — and out of the body from the rectum into the penis via infected blood ( blood can enter the penis through the hole in the end ) . |
| 25 | By detecting heat this can provide a picture that would be impossible to detect with just the human eye . |
| 26 | This can provide an opportunity for testing opinion on controversial proposals such as the reprocessing of nuclear fuels at Windscale and the designation of Stansted as the site of the third London airport . |
| 27 | This can require a week to die down , and is followed by severe peeling that leaves no brown pigment remaining . |
| 28 | This can include a reluctance to ask them to visit , or to come for a meal and even the fear , felt by some women , that a grieving woman may attract their own husbands . |
| 29 | The warmth which sisters and sisters-in-law may show for one another can cushion a woman against the harshness of her life . |
| 30 | ‘ If they 're using a phone-booth-to-phone-booth system , there 's no way the British can get a tap on it . |