Example sentences of "that it can [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 They all concern SKIP guards in ALT constructs : the situation where the process is given an option that it can choose invisibly and automatically .
2 One of the best things about the Empire army is that it can accommodate almost any style of play .
3 It has had to accept that it can do neither without a deal with the opposition .
4 The key question is now no longer whether stress accelerates ageing — there is a growing medical consensus that it can do so and often dramatically — but how best to prevent it .
5 She helps the patient transfer his weight onto his hemiplegic leg , and then release his normal leg so that it can move freely sideways .
6 In addition , its support for the Tunnel project is based on the firm understanding that it can succeed entirely as a private venture .
7 As a textile man I do n't mind woolliness too much but I do object to vagueness because this motion is so vague that it can mean as much as you want it to mean while , at the same time , it says to little as to leave an escape route for it 's supporters .
8 The idea is that it can check more accurately whether people have done the courses , and I hope that that answers the point made by my hon. Friend .
9 It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 .
10 yeah , that 's true it does show ya that it can grow though do n't it , not the hair I mean AI AIDS you know if you shave somebody head and got AIDS and you shave his head , he cuts them both , that 's it , two people 's got AIDS just like that .
11 The ferret may , therefore , finish up in such a fix that it can go neither forwards nor backwards .
12 Albert Reynolds has told the Prime Minister , Mr Major , Mr Major has taken on board , has has considered , presumably , what it is that you 've done with Gerry Adams , and concluded that it can go no further .
13 but you , you ca n't make that public and you are still worried that it can go too far to the left and therefore you , you , you 've got a range of , of erm quite moderate proposals which come in which , i if they were implemented , would restrain and would maintain the su the support of the ninety percent , th that you are still only seeking to antagonize really those , those landlords who are not going to be prepared to come back within the system .
14 Even so , it is still an important hormone and ‘ tones up ’ the body so that it can perform more efficiently during the daytime .
15 Note that the four-note ostinato is at odds with the triple metre , so that it can recur only in its original place ( at the beginning of a bar ) every four bars .
16 It must be designed for use in conjunction with a file containing an up-to-date collection of PPGs , MPGs and circulars , so that it can help quickly identify relevant policy statements for use in the preparation of responses to local planning authorities or in statements to public inquiries .
17 However successful British Coal is in the future in building on its outstanding success in recent years and improving productivity , one of its basic problems is that it can sell only coal .
18 It just brings it home to you that it can happen anywhere , ’ said a colleague .
19 RMI needs to ensure in the way that it tackles the information aspect that it can incorporate properly the ‘ user-led ’ aspect of information specification .
20 For an individual , the demoralising effect that it can have clearly depends upon whether the period of unemployment is short-term or long-term .
21 A study conducted by Drs Anita Malhotra and Roger Thorpe , of the University of Aberdeen , not only provides a first-class example of natural selection at work , but also shows that it can occur very much faster than most people obviously imagined ( Nature , vol. 353 , pp 347–8 ) .
22 The new rules place a statutory duty on anyone who wants to alter the genetic structure of living creatures in the laboratory — or to use such organisms after they have been genetically engineered — to notify the executive well in advance so that it can assess independently the safety of the proposed activity .
23 We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded .
24 The dragonfly has so many ommatidia that it can see as well as some vertebrates .
25 The problem with this approach is that it can become rather competitive and nerve racking for those children who do n't get " chosen " early on .
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