Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] can [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artists do not have to be able to draw , though it helps : they do , however , have to be able to ‘ visualize ’ a design or a film and be able to explain their ideas by words and rough pictures so that a specialized artist or photographer can produce the finished illustration . |
| 2 | I take this to mean that there is an equality , a reciprocity between the aesthetic and the political such that an aesthetic dimension or response can give the lie to a political claim . |
| 3 | A contradiction in style during this change of éaulement or alignment can distort the design . |
| 4 | The point has been made that ‘ abusive ’ and ‘ insulting ’ are semantically very similar , and can be used more or less interchangeably ( the information or indictment can use the blunderbuss language of threatening , abusive or insulting without offending the rule against duplicity ) . |
| 5 | No one person or department can resource the company 's marketing effort . |
| 6 | There are many different ways in which death or divorce can alter the family pattern and there are no ground rules to help us know how to behave , as there are in the case of the traditional nuclear family . |
| 7 | The only way past this into the egg-chamber beyond is through a small hole high in one corner and neither your fingers nor an intruding paw or beak can negotiate the bends and reach through it . |
| 8 | Events like bereavement or retirement can increase the pressure . |
| 9 | Events like bereavement or retirement can increase the pressure . |
| 10 | He answers that first God should be loved with the humility and strength which makes all labour light so that no shame or anguish can destabilise the delight ( 111 – 12.99 – 137 ) . |
| 11 | But , no man or woman can attain the ultimate in relation to such virtue . |
| 12 | If there is a problem the client or assistant can contact the manager who will mediate . |
| 13 | The advent of microcomputers with word processing programs now means that the school librarian or teacher or pupil can have the facilities of the stand.alone word processor without the expense . |
| 14 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 15 | No synthetic chemical or compound can reproduce the vibration or pattern of the ‘ stuff of life ’ . |
| 16 | Changes in sea temperature or salinity can cause the algae to leave , causing white blotches to form . |
| 17 | Decaffeinated coffee is now widely available as beans or as instant coffee and is suitable for drinking by children and insomniacs and by people with heart conditions and high blood pressure , where caffeine can aggravate the symptoms . |
| 18 | While the sound of the doorbell or knocker can trigger the dog to start barking , this can be followed by aggression towards the caller . |
| 19 | But they would agree that anxiety , tension or depression can make the physical symptoms worse . |
| 20 | The official receiver or trustee can require the sheriff to tax his costs where the sheriff is entitled to costs as a result of insolvency overtaking an execution ( r 7.36 ) . |
| 21 | It has consistently been assumed that Parliament can abolish the House of Lords , though in order to do so , a Bill to this effect would have to be passed . |
| 22 | In recent years , however , I have realised that although romanticism can distort the past , there is an even greater trap into which we can fall . |
| 23 | To this one might add the comment that racism can compound the difficulties where Afro-Caribbean or Asian care assistants receive racist comments in their work from residents ( Norman , 1987b ) . |
| 24 | But did you realise that smoking can impair the blood which carries oxygen to the brain and therefore decrease mental efficiency ? |
| 25 | The effect of undirected heat energy of 40 000 degrees being achieved by the directed use of a mere 4 volts illustrates the ‘ efficiency ’ of the technique ; they also realised that electrochemistry can induce the effects of high pressures-high temperature and pressure being two of the conditions for achieving fusion . |
| 26 | What we can take from this contemporary debate is the realisation that although research can assess the effectiveness of signing in schools , the change to Total Communication is generally based on attitude or commitment , which minimises or ignores the teacher variable . |
| 27 | Setting intermediate goals and providing an assessment of them is another way that feedback can help the student adjust her learning . |
| 28 | Some of them offer the beguiling idea that skill can influence the odds in our favour , but acquiring that skill usually means spending more time and money . |
| 29 | So you 're confident that intelligence can withstand the spotlights unwithered , untrivialized ? |
| 30 | Any action which contradicts these laws — whether it is the working class believing that parliamentary reform can eradicate the exploitative nature of capitalism or capitalists believing that reform can eradicate the ultimate demands for fundamental and revolutionary change from the working class — is defined merely as an expression of false consciousness . |