Example sentences of "a [noun] that can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chart that can help detect these patterns is called an ABC chart ( Gelfand and Hartman 1984 ; Herbert 1981 ) . |
| 2 | Each of the three cases will be examined for 90 per cent packed files , randomized to individual record positions and to a bucket that can hold ten records . |
| 3 | But add to that a recession that can cut turnover in half and it 's no wonder that designers are becoming more commercially minded . |
| 4 | Professor James Duguid , former professor of microbiology at Dundee University , said yesterday that if salmonella is found in swabs taken from the hen house or in the chickens , it does not follow that the eggs are infected to a level that can cause food poisoning . |
| 5 | Here , public art becomes a tonic that can galvanise moribund cities , enthuse alien-ated youth , plug into popular culture and repay risky investments with a dividend of social solidarity . |
| 6 | CYCLOSPORIN-A , a drug that can prevent the body rejecting bone-marrow transplants , has been given a licence for general use in Britain . |
| 7 | Dr. Jekyll becomes obsessed with producing a drug that can separate ‘ the good and evil personalities of man ’ , but the results of his discovery send him mad . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 10 | Lowden have managed to pack a big sound into a small package and the end result is a guitar that can cope with anything from basic stage accompaniment to virtuoso-standard fingerpicking . |
| 11 | A BOAT that can run swiftly and silently without a churning propeller has been the dream of naval commanders ever since the first submarine slid gurgling beneath the waves . |
| 12 | But striptease is not a practice that can continue forever , and nudity is not a good camouflage . |
| 13 | It is not official information , it is better that it goes directly to a department that can deal with it . |
| 14 | ‘ Hyperplastic cell proliferation — is a condition that can affect all species of fish . |
| 15 | This spotted sea hare ( above ) is a mollusc that can squirt a cloud of purple ink into the water in response to the approach of a predator . |
| 16 | A mind that can turn faster and keep going longer than that of anyone I know , so Paz , wrote Harsnet . |
| 17 | A way to do this is with a switch that can direct the photon to one of two detectors set to measure different directions of polarisation , both at A and at B ( Figure 16 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ This is a programme that can make a difference by preparing our young people for living in a world of powerful images , words and ideas , ’ says Elizabeth Thoman , the Center 's Director . |
| 19 | ‘ Mercedes and the LTA Trust deserve credit for devising a programme that can help to achieve this . ’ |
| 20 | The Italian made Candy turbomatic 38D has a fault that can make it burst into flames , an inquest heard . |
| 21 | Added to straightforward handling which gives just a hint of oversteer when the throttle is lifted on the entrance to a corner , the result is a car that can accomplish long distances over give-and-take roads without ever tiring the driver . |
| 22 | If one imagines a machine that can travel from junction to junction almost instantaneously , finding a path to the exit would take only seconds . |
| 23 | but there again it 's only hand feed , you 've , you got to have a , a machine that can feed on to take this tubing |
| 24 | WHAT do the following have in common : a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead ; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times ; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book ; a 15-cm ( 6-inch ) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket ; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland ? |
| 25 | In other words , imagine a machine that can look ahead one move . |
| 26 | One is that it is a hollow that can hold extra air , allowing the reptile to remain submerged longer . |
| 27 | So the company is shifting its attention from selling individual products to selling a range that can work easily together . |
| 28 | Yes , power-hungry peripherals are becoming rarer by the minute , but as expandability is an important criterion for file servers , it 's important that you have a PSU that can dish out enough juice . |
| 29 | Even so , there must be a contract , a requirement that can prove particularly problematic in supply situations where the contract element is missing , for example , drugs prescribed under the NHS . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |