Example sentences of "[noun] that it can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most difficult question is what to do with the beef mountain , created , in the words of one senior Commission official , by a process which ‘ takes the best beef , freezes it and so destroys it , with the result that it can only be sold to people who can not afford it . ’ |
| 2 | Mr. Wall prays in aid that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. in support of his submission that it is only in the event of the court in this country finding that article 13 ( b ) is applicable to the case that it can properly consider the ‘ welfare interests ’ of the child in deciding whether to decline to order the return of the child to Australia . |
| 3 | The weapon has a shorter range than the Repeater Hand Gun but it has the advantage that it can also be used in hand-to-hand fighting . |
| 4 | It is in the interests of this class that the workers can afford to buy the types of products that it can realistically expect to sell them . |
| 5 | Although the charge could be laid that CCM depends upon the imitation of other forms , so great is its variety and so gifted its musicians that it can hardly be accused of lacking originality . |
| 6 | Yet governments ought to resist the temptation to dismiss peace movements as representing only a minority opinion , for it is in the nature of a wider but vaguer anxiety about the issue that it can hardly be organized or form the basis of a coherent campaign . |
| 7 | The Labour party had no place for pensioners in the past and no promises that it can properly meet for the future . |
| 8 | Surely it would be a drain on Party resources that it can ill afford . |
| 9 | Until recently acetylcysteine was not recommended for use more than 15 hours after overdose , but there is now evidence that it can safely be given to patients up to 24 hours after ingestion and perhaps even later than this . |
| 10 | He supports the view that under current law the Fed has so much leeway that it can honestly claim to be fulfilling the will of Congress no matter what policies it adopts . |
| 11 | The real interview may run a very different course from the one you anticipated , and you do not want to develop the subconscious belief that it can only go one way . |
| 12 | So strong is the activity in these discharges that it can still be measured in the sea right down the western coast of Britain , northwards round the top of Scotland , and even as far away as Scandinavia . |
| 13 | It went ahead later on such a scale and at such a pace that it can now be seen as one of the most important facts of modem history . |
| 14 | The structure should be tailored in such a way that it can most effectively pursue its aims . |
| 15 | A principle of continuity which is ‘ inscribed ’ in such a way that it can only be established by breaking into it , but which nothing can interrupt or change ! |
| 16 | It bears so much fruit that it can still supply the appetites of 50 children and a large population of garden birds . |
| 17 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |
| 18 | The chosen lexicon or word list must be represented in computer memory , but there are numerous methods which could be employed to do this , in order that it can easily be searched . |
| 19 | " The tomato " , says M. Verdier , " imparts its delicious taste , at the same time acid and slightly sweet , to so many sauces and dishes that it can fairly be classed among the best of condiments . |
| 20 | Some writers , as we have seen , are suspicious of unanimity on the grounds that it can only be , or is at least most likely to be , the product of either manipulation from above or the coercive pressure of majority opinion on the rest , or of a combination of both of these . |
| 21 | Benno Baksteen , chairman of the Dutch pilots ' association , said : ‘ A sudden loss of wind can cause the aircraft to lose wind speed suddenly and to such an extent that it can no longer fly and falls . ’ |
| 22 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 23 | One interesting thing about this fish is the temperature that it can apparently adapt to . |
| 24 | One advantage of the fact that it can often produce little contextual information in comparison with this massive material product is that the labels given to this material are often relatively arbitrary . |