Example sentences of "that can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advocacy of spending is concentrated in vocal and influential communities and client groups that can affect the electoral chances of politicians . |
| 2 | Another factor in the pupil 's near environment that can affect the comfortable use of vision for work is the ‘ fit ’ of the furniture ( chair , desk , table ) in terms of individual requirements . |
| 3 | All stressed skin structures exhibit a minimum surface tension that can contain the applied forces . |
| 4 | Its sole aim is to set you thinking along constructive lines , to indicate what is possible , to advise on the best sources of information and to help you avoid the pitfalls that can trap the unwary . |
| 5 | Taylor runs a government funded research team which is trying to develop a computer that can make the right tactical decisions as consistently as the top 10 per cent of generals . |
| 6 | For example , he says , there have been strong demands from some groups to screen all pregnant women for toxoplasmosis , an infectious disease that can damage the nervous system . |
| 7 | Dent explains : ‘ Our process seeks to provide a simple , yet robust , system that can feed the treated plastic waste back into the processing of chemicals and can easily be used alongside refineries or chemicals plants . ’ |
| 8 | A ‘ god ’ and corresponding religion that can serve the human need , must be produced by mankind itself , that is , the ‘ god ’ must be created by life and man 's intelligence , not life created by ‘ god ’ . |
| 9 | The works of mercy and the virtues together show that combination of active life and inner condition that can counteract the subversive activities of the seven sins : pride , envy , wrath , gluttony , covetousness , sloth and lechery . |
| 10 | Technology that can liberate the handicapped Paul Bray on the range of keyboard devices that provide a new lease of life |
| 11 | BP Solar is developing a technology based on an alternative semiconductor that can absorb the whole solar spectrum in about one-thousandth of a millimetre of material . |
| 12 | John McIlwraith , Balig , Ayr , chairman of the BSS UK , says the Beltex is the terminal sire that can deliver the right type of lamb at the right weight and with a conformation that is accepted in Europe as second to none . |
| 13 | When people are feeling wound up , there are different things that can unleash the barbed remark : another small demand for their attention , a lost key , not being taken seriously enough by the person to whom they are cataloguing the disasters of the day , or TOO MUCH NOISE . |
| 14 | And the only agents that can do the pollinating are fig wasps . |
| 15 | I believe that the creation of the universe and all that that involves , is still a mystery and forms no part of the conception of a god and a corresponding religion that can fulfil the human need . |
| 16 | People will say that they seem to be wishing that the person would hurry up and die , but in reality it seems that this event is the only one that can break the suspended animation of events being acted out in front of them . |
| 17 | Make sure you choose a model that can increase the normal temperature to that required for propagation . |
| 18 | Environmentalists fear that the arrival in Guyana of Barama Ltd — a partnership between Samling Timbers of Malaysia and Sunkyong Ltd of South Korea — may herald a new era of expansion by companies that can see the approaching end of their domestic lumber supply . |
| 19 | A sudden dedication to a foreign influence like Hegel or Derrida , brief but intense , is about the only thing there is that can cause the British to lose a sense of humour or a sense of proportion , and during the first London production of Waiting for Godot in 1955 I was reproached by strangers seated around me for laughing , though I still think it a funny play . |
| 20 | Beverley has set about the task of designing monoclonals that can recognise the surfactant material and therefore indicate its presence or absence in the lungs of newborn babies . |
| 21 | → There are a number of suppliers that can provide the correct style bridge and also the string ferrules for the back of the body — look in the classified section at the back of this issue . |
| 22 | To be effectively creative , you need a breadth and depth of visual and verbal references that can provide the raw material for the kind of mental associations that lead to really creative ideas . |
| 23 | As has been shown in detail elsewhere ( Hanko 1986 , 1987 , 1989 ) , knowledge that can highlight the underlying issues has to be supplemented , and skills have to be developed in the group , which the designated supporter will have been applying in his work with children , but now has to redeploy for work with fellow professionals . |
| 24 | It can only be a reliance on public ignorance that can allow the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , and other Tories , to spread lies about the social chapter of the Maastricht treaty . |
| 25 | The mechanisms to achieve this and an assessment of the errors involved are documented , together with an explanation of new and promising possibilities to relate polling districts and enumeration districts that can exploit the increased use of postcodes by the 1991 census . |
| 26 | Finally , I shall attempt to devise a synthesis that can incorporate the successful features of several theoretical approaches ( including aspects of the attentional theories discussed in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 27 | The EPA plans to spend almost one million dollars over the next three years , looking for organisms that can use the chlorinated aromatics as their sources of carbon . |
| 28 | Due around the same time , TPI is designed to give developers the basic tools that they need to build applications that can use the wide area network technology . |
| 29 | It is only by experiment , experience and observation of the sensitivity of each patient that can determine the optimum size of dose to give . |
| 30 | Persistent infections occupy the middle ground between acute life-threatening infections that can overcome the immune and interferon systems , and infections that readily succumb to these defences — albeit after a short burst of disease . |