Example sentences of "that it can [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |
2 | In Safrane , the engine has been deliberately tuned to favour torque output with the result that it can deliver 115 lb-ft from 1,500 rpm upwards — so producing an extremely flexible power curve . |
3 | Intuition is not enough when a school has to give assurances of quality and has to prove that it can control that quality . |
4 | In a democratic society , this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science , so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts . |
5 | I urge the local authority in Durham to develop a relationship with housing associations so that it can make faster progress in meeting the problems to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
6 | I 've already said this morning that the District Council does not consider that it can accommodate any further dwellings within the Southern Ryedale area without adversely affecting the character of the settlements that are already there , or compromising greenbelt objectives , erm , so therefore to meet the Greater York total , the District Council considers it essential that there is a new settlement to take that amount of housing that can not be accommodated within the Southern Ryedale area . |
7 | If multimedia has a future , it has nothing to do with the fact that it can do clever things . |
8 | To be fair , the government of Hong Kong has such pressing social problems on its hands that it can spare little time either for passing or , equally important , enforcing conservation laws . |
9 | Capitalism is not yet so triumphant that it can disregard moral dissent . |
10 | In agreement with this idea several groups have recently shown that this site does indeed represent a functional binding site for octamer binding proteins ( 12–14 ) and we have demonstrated that it can bind both the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and a novel octamer binding protein expressed in cervical cells ( 15 ) . |
11 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
12 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
13 | PR must then be a reasonable autonomous unit so that it can serve all departments equally . |
14 | But do you think that there 's some way that the NEA can be reformed or changed so that it can serve that purpose ? |
15 | One of the Packman 's most important claims is that it can handle all types and sizes of chemical pack . |
16 | It has retained the strong legs and good feet of a draught animal , so that it can travel long distances over rough terrain on the range , and it has proved able to withstand the stress of drought better than other Bos taurus breeds . |
17 | Most work has gone into tuning the machines for graphics work : the company reckons that it can out-perform conventional video adaptor boards with a combination of a Mach32 graphics accelerator , a 32-bit linear frame buffer and up to 2Mb of fast video RAM . |
18 | Previously run on an informal basis by the universities , the Foundation hopes to ‘ obtain more grants so that it can stand alone ’ . |
19 | The only way out of this conundrum would be to argue , not only that the contents of the bracket are for the tribunal , but that it can alter these at will , and put any other contents in their place at any time . |
20 | When the groups come together , particularly at board meetings , differences are resolved in the long-term interests of the company so that it can remain profitable . |
21 | Net is also a general term , not specific to working girls ( prostitutes ) so that it can facilitate other ministries in the future . |
22 | Starting with 30 monitoring points , the system offers massive flexibility due to the fact that it can substitute two wires , punctuated by individually programmed chips , for the massive bunch of wires which would be needed by a conventional system . |
23 | It has a standard microprocessor bus interface , and is claimed to execute 20G-operations per second , so that it can recognise thousands of text characters a second compared with 10 to 100 per second for a personal computer running character recognition software . |
24 | A written sentence , on the other hand , can more easily be HYPOTACTIC , which means that it can have complex relations between its parts — one inside another , rather than just one after another . |
25 | In our electronic technology the discrete , digital locations have only two states , conventionally represented as 0 and 1 although you can think of them as high and low , on and off , up and down : all that matters is that they should be distinct from one another , and that the pattern of their states can be ‘ read out ’ so that it can have some influence on something . |
26 | Instead , try to pull over if possible and find somewhere to take the dog out of the car , in its travelling cage , so that it can have fresh air . |
27 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
28 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
29 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
30 | When temperate forests are cleared , the remaining ground is rich in organic matter , which means that it can withstand repeated ploughing , and supports good crops . |