Example sentences of "that can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is to identify those cases that can most benefit from a further investigation . |
| 2 | First , a process that can automatically choose to diverge must be identified with |
| 3 | I repeat that there is no system that can automatically preclude evil people getting into positions of power over vulnerable people . |
| 4 | The Redwood Shores , California-based company claims DDS/Patrol is an object-oriented systems management tool that can automatically monitor and management distributed applications , databases and systems . |
| 5 | The Redwood Shores , California-based company claims DDS/Patrol is an object-oriented systems management tool that can automatically monitor and management distributed applications , databases and systems . |
| 6 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 7 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 8 | But I think that everyone concerned needs to realise that this is not a process without cost , nor one that can magically happen overnight . |
| 9 | Another chemist , Robert Bergman from the University of California in Berkeley , has made an organic derivative of iridium that can also split a carbon-hydrogen bond . |
| 10 | Alternatively , try to find the sort of rectangular table that can also double as a long desk or work table when required . |
| 11 | It implements a multiple-instruction , multiple-data architecture that can also emulate single-instruction , multiple-data and multiple computer MIMD architectures Cray said . |
| 12 | Most important of all , he will have good liaison with the local social services department , who can draw all the threads together and link his elderly patients with the organisations that can best meet their needs . |
| 13 | The kind of institution that can best provide the protection depends on the nature of the transaction , an issue discussed later . |
| 14 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 15 | In the year 1912 the Polish mathematician , W. Sierpinski , constructed a limiting curve that can completely fill a square . |
| 16 | Surfaces that come into contact with hands , such as light switches , telephone handsets , door handles , drawers , refrigerator panels and machine controls , may build up levels of contamination that can temporarily overcome skin defences and so cause the transfer of potentially harmful microorganisms to food . |
| 17 | Devices are now available that can sequentially deliver antitachycardia pacing , low-energy synchronised cardioversion , and high-energy defibrillation in a tiered fashion . |
| 18 | There is , however , a device that can vastly reduce the smell and the smoke if it 's used to extinguish the cigarette in place of the stub-filled ashtray . |
| 19 | The intention of the partners will be clearer , and some of the difficulties that can otherwise arise may thus be avoided . |
| 20 | The emptiness of the routines followed in large segments of modern social life engender a psychological basis for affiliation to symbols that can both promote solidarity and cause schism . |
| 21 | There are no words in any human language that can adequately describe the experience of ‘ seeing ’ something in this way — precisely because human beings do not have a holographic sense and so have never required the words to describe it nor the intellectual ability to be able to imagine it . |
| 22 | If Labour wants to attack ‘ greedy investors ’ by using regulation to cut ‘ excessive profits ’ , then capital spending will fall — or it will have to come from a government that can ill afford it even on Smith 's numbers . |
| 23 | The second is that the multiplicity of authorities increases the number of administrators and clerical workers , so imposing a heavy cost on an economy that can ill afford to use its resources in this way . |
| 24 | Aphid attack is crude flat-out assault by hordes that can quickly replace their losses . |
| 25 | By the same token , the business arrangements in many organisations are now regionally orientated , and it seems only logical to allow groups of offices that can collectively meet the Institute 's requirements to provide pre- and post-qualification training as single entities — or training office groups . |
| 26 | Dover is now proposing a third force that can genetically transform a species ; transforming not because of the external forces of selection or drift , but from within . |
| 27 | One of the interested parties , and one of the only sources that can currently supply the Norton toolset for SCO and Sunsoft 's ( Interactive ) Unix , is Transparent Technology Inc of Los Angeles , California , which specialises in PC/ Unix software . |
| 28 | Keys have to be numeric and space has to be reserved on disk to hold records of every key that can possibly exist in the defined range . |
| 29 | Nothing that can possibly matter much . |
| 30 | There are now programs on the market that can almost read as well as humans — almost being the operative word , of course . |