Example sentences of "it can [verb] [art] [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 use of metaphor to unsettle a discourse which has widespread authority in our culture demonstrates that metaphor need not necessarily play a coercive role , that it can serve an interrogatory function as well . |
| 4 | The strength of the referential communication approach , sensitively employed , is that it can model the decontextualized world of the classroom . |
| 5 | Beyond this , however , it can offer no generalised or ‘ off-the-peg ’ answers to concrete and specific questions , and would caution against attempting such a task . |
| 6 | Adobe Systems Inc has licensed its PostScript software to Sony Corp so that it can offer a new software Raster Image Processor based on the Configurable PostScript Interpreter to be integrated into its existing News Unix workstations that drive output devices and are targeted for the Japanese market . |
| 7 | But apart from looking good , a headboard has other useful purposes — it can offer a comfortable support to rest against and also protects the wall behind it from wear and tear . |
| 8 | Major industrial partners , like Shell , Hewlett-Packard , and Meiko itself have contributed both money and equipment to help the project to the point where it can offer a reliable multi-user service to people from all over the UK . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Despite the latter 's continuous nature it can accommodate a certain degree of selectivity when it comes to vibrations . |
| 12 | If all this can happen to a person who 's lost a job , you can see how it can affect the whole family . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mostly our air arrives from the west which is why we sit up and take notice of the weather in America , although actually it can change a great deal on the way over here . |
| 15 | It can be heady stuff , it can be a pleasant experience , or it can leave a nasty taste in the mouth and cost a great deal . |
| 16 | This is a very basic pattern but it can alter a plain garment dramatically . |
| 17 | Unless it can effect a remarkable recovery , the factory may well disappear back into the bleak and sodden marshes of Essex from which it emerged nearly 60 years ago . |
| 18 | I am by no means gloomy about the prospects for British Coal , but its future success and security depend on its becoming more competitive and productive so that it can secure a large part of the British energy market in years ahead . |
| 19 | Nobody has claimed that it can clear the infectious organism , HIV , from a person 's system . |
| 20 | It can fetch a high price . |
| 21 | It can involve a simple space plan of the existing building to provide a more flexible and efficient layout or alternatively , it can be used as the basis to calculate the required floor area for a new building . |
| 22 | If the Commission thinks the case admissible and worth proceeding with , it sees if it can achieve a friendly settlement . |
| 23 | The selling agent , Ellis ( 01-706 0844 ) , says it can arrange a Swiss mortgage to finance up to 60 per cent of the purchase price of the property — but remember that if you borrow in Swiss francs and the pound falls against the Swiss currency , the amount and cost of your mortgage could rise . |
| 24 | This means it can tolerate an actual break in supply because it will run for a time on the batteries . |
| 25 | Or it can negotiate a new deal with the Justice Department — with no guarantee that this will be any more acceptable to Judge Holland . |
| 26 | ‘ Before it can damage The New Hope ? ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | With a pixel refresh rate of 320 million per second , SGI claims it can deliver the same amount of data to a screen in one second as appears in during a typical 30 second television advertisement . |
| 29 | Therefore , a record company has to sell a large quantity of LPs before it can expect a substantial return on its investment . |
| 30 | That had n't cost a couple of pounds — it can cost a small fortune . |