Example sentences of "it can [verb] [art] " 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 advantage of a body clock is that it can prepare an animal or plant and enable it to predict a future environmental condition and so be ready for the event when it takes place . |
| 3 | Recently developed by British Gas , it can prepare the |
| 4 | But where the scheme is feasible it can relieve the pressures for all concerned . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 8 | The strength of the referential communication approach , sensitively employed , is that it can model the decontextualized world of the classroom . |
| 9 | Ideal for sketching , shading and fine line work , it can hold a range of leads and comes in a smart , recycled presentation pack . |
| 10 | The memory can store information which is put in , so that this information can be used again and it can hold a set of instructions for the computer to carry out . |
| 11 | Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) . |
| 12 | In an air test , stoppers are used to block off the ends of the drain and air is blown into the drain to see whether it can hold the pressure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It can be consistently hard like the cutting edge of hardened steel , or it can offer the iridescence of tulle draped into a soft light . |
| 19 | Following changes to the Open Software Foundation 's Motif 1.2 licensing terms , IXI says it can offer the Motif runtime for £50 in volume as opposed to OSF 's $2,000 source fee . |
| 20 | If it can offer the fellowship of a club , young people may well risk the scorn of their peers to belong to it . |
| 21 | Although this is not the same as decay or rotting , it can weaken the joints if the splits appear where the fixings are . |
| 22 | Sir Frank added that Britain had no ‘ power to do anything other than see if it can influence the French or whichever country it may be . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , as a strategic planning authority , it is through the Structure Plan process that it can influence the protection of natural resources such as peat lands , and the opportunity for this will arise in the current review of the Plan which will be available for public consultation in the New Year . |
| 25 | Labour believes that it can hijack the EC towards the type of socialism that has been rejected throughout eastern Europe . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The particular organisation can build up its own expertise ; it can acquire answers which are then relayed ; it can refer the enquirer to another agency ; it can bring in specialists to answer the enquiries direct . |
| 28 | Knill said that without such commissioned research ‘ there would be a massive depletion in environmental research in this country ’ , although it can distract the scientists . |
| 29 | It can accommodate a reception for up to 400 guests and the museum recommends three catering companies for your convenience , although you can choose your own . |
| 30 | Despite the latter 's continuous nature it can accommodate a certain degree of selectivity when it comes to vibrations . |