Example sentences of "it can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can enable the reluctant and shy to enter into discussion with greater enthusiasm at home or at work . |
| 2 | The card often has its own processor , typically on 80186 or 80188 , and it can relieve the main CPU of some of the donkey work of controlling a hard disk . |
| 3 | The strength of the referential communication approach , sensitively employed , is that it can model the decontextualized world of the classroom . |
| 4 | From the group 's perspective , it desires to be involved where it can influence the final shape of a policy so that it maximizes the benefits and minimizes the losses to its members . |
| 5 | It can complicate the management of in-patients beds if beds have to be kept available to accommodate persons on leave of absence who may relapse and require urgent readmission and it can distort the patient statistics . |
| 6 | If all this can happen to a person who 's lost a job , you can see how it can affect the whole family . |
| 7 | However , it is clear that calcium has a multiplicity of effects within the cell , and there are other ways in which it can affect the synaptic membrane . |
| 8 | Nobody has claimed that it can clear the infectious organism , HIV , from a person 's system . |
| 9 | ‘ Before it can damage The New Hope ? ’ |
| 10 | A typical entry would be for , say , E233 , a preservative , chemical name thiabendazole , a man-made material , with a note of caution attached warning that it should be avoided during pregnancy because it can damage the unborn child . |
| 11 | Gregory believes the new toolkit , which is also scalable , is a technical breakthrough because it can assume the available processing power and memory resource on the target . |
| 12 | But the cognoscenti know that the grip can be everything : in itself it can decide the entire bout . |
| 13 | On the one hand it can emphasise the regular contributions citizens/groups make to collective life , while on the other it can reduce their participation to elections . |
| 14 | Where a restaurant certificate or a restricted hotel licence is being granted or transferred , if it appears to the licensing board that only a mid-day meal or an evening meal is being provided , it can restrict the permitted hours to the mid-day period , if only a mid-day meal is being provided , or to the evening period , if only an evening meal is being provided . |
| 15 | If an object is brought nearer , the muscles squeeze the lens , making it more rounded , so that it can bring the nearby object into focus . |
| 16 | It can give the correct SG but a neutral solution ( pH 7 ) whereas brackish waters are pH 7.6 to 8 . |
| 17 | Though the operation costs £2,000 per eye , it can give the patient normal sight , said Mr Choyce . |
| 18 | It can set the real mood of a piece , giving an intimate and unique atmosphere which is a vital part of the essence of the music . |
| 19 | The recommendation is subject to approval by parliament which is , however , likely to accept the proposal although only it can set the final date . |
| 20 | At times the FTC appears to spend much of its time worrying about how it can control the anti-competitive actions not of private business but of fellow bureaucrats who are busy promoting cartels . |
| 21 | The Vosges mountains take most of the rain before it can reach the protected valleys , and dry , sunny days last long into the autumn . |
| 22 | It can identify the brief passage of an animal that might have run across the ground in front of it several hours previously . |
| 23 | The American base of RAF Mildenhall has not yet been told by the Pentagon that it can spend the necessary cash on the show , which last year attracted 406,000 people . |
| 24 | See , on the other hand , because it can evoke the bare fact of visual perception , is capable of evoking perception merely as a cause of knowledge and no more than that . |
| 25 | It is confident that it can take the long distance frugality title to add to its claim of being Britain 's fastest small diesel with a top speed of 96.3 mph . |
| 26 | This is the initial action , the first step , and , for the writer , it can determine the whole nature of the response that will be made because it imposes , almost unconsciously , a straightjacket on the thought , development and structure that will thereafter be pursued . " |
| 27 | The kangaroo rat is so aware of such sound that even on the darkest of nights it can hear the approaching slither of a hunting rattlesnake . |
| 28 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 29 | The thing to watch out for is getting them twisted because as the male member bangs away and does n't get in very far , it can push the whole thing inside and slip around the sides . |
| 30 | Whilst the forms of inspiration vary , the individual needs to attune to the ‘ atmosphere ’ of the place , so that it can encourage the artistic and creative faculties to respond and generate output that is deeper , finer and more prolific than otherwise . |