Example sentences of "can [verb] its [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , it is a major feature of this type of product , and one for which the advertised brand is actually superior : but it could be some general characteristic which , by getting in first and appropriating it to itself , the brand can make its own . |
| 2 | A board can make its own arrangements for considering such applications ( subs . |
| 3 | The proponents of this approach to policy claim that it will encourage a more stable background in which the private sector can make its own investment and spending plans with greater certainty about future government policy ; that it will prevent abrupt and damaging shifts of policy ; and that it will make government manipulation of monetary policy for electoral purposes more difficult . |
| 4 | A local authority can make its own arrangements to arrest defaulters , which can include the use of bailiffs , and the defaulter must comply with such a warrant from the court . |
| 5 | Among the propertied , private separations were much more common than judicial separations and , according to Stone , represent a ‘ remarkable example of how an officially non-divorcing society can devise its own quasi-legal instruments to cope with the fact of irremediable marital breakdowns ’ ( p. 182 ) . |
| 6 | Vitamin D The body can manufacture its own vitamin D if exposed to sunlight . |
| 7 | Before the Clinton administration can pursue its own ideas on research and development , it must deal with the ‘ big science ’ bequeathed to it . |
| 8 | The mind can generate its own creative images and it will show us colours and visions that will bewilder our eyes and take us to regions beyond the schemata , where words no longer have meaning . |
| 9 | The shared fun , or criticism , of a text can bring its own satisfaction . |
| 10 | That can bring its own dangers . |
| 11 | A new bank account that recognises that , being able to make your own decisions can bring its own problems . |
| 12 | The Minister has also made statements on the increasingly complex issues of how far a council can allocate its own costs of contract supervision to the tender submitted by an outside contractor ( Hedley 1989a:10 ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , it has been argued that the government is the most likely source of excess demand inflation : through its policy measures , it can finance its own spending by raising taxes , by borrowing or by printing money . |
| 14 | Well , Yamaha 's battery or mains powered RY10 can use its own internal speaker , or headphone output , to enable programming just about anywhere but in the shower . |
| 15 | Well , Yamaha 's battery or mains powered RY10 can use its own internal speaker , or headphone output , to enable programming just about anywhere but in the shower . |
| 16 | When reclaiming such land , it may be necessary to provide the first pioneer crops with a direct injection of nutrients through chemical fertilizers but it should always be remembered that the aim is to build up the life in the soil so that it can provide its own fertility within the land potential . |
| 17 | A parameter entity is an SGML construct which may be thought of in simple terms as like a variable declaration in a programming language : the effect of using them here is that each base tag set can provide its own specific definition for the constituents of texts , which can , moreover be modified by the user . |
| 18 | Only in the rump region do the stripes markedly differ from species to species This means that , when fleeing at speed , each zebra can follow its own species flag . |
| 19 | A gene can foster its own future welfare by favouring its own individual wolf , at the expense of other individual wolves . |
| 20 | The area can boast its own teenage gangs , named after the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods , who carry Uzis and specialise in shooting from the windows of moving cars . |
| 21 | If , in a given species , animals at a particular stage of their lives habitually live with relatives , then selection will favour altruistic acts that cause a net increase in the number of the relevant genes , whether or not an animal can recognize its own relatives . |
| 22 | In addition each Guide hyperdocument can contain its own context-table . |
| 23 | Its impact is limited by the strength of the Government which generally can control its own supporters and rely on its majority in the Commons . |
| 24 | This can create its own peculiar problems , but such personal involvement can also increase the identification of the farm worker with his employer and with the farm . |
| 25 | The very ambiguity between real and not real can have its own frightening fascination . |
| 26 | Counterpoint can have its own intellectual appeal — something quite different . |
| 27 | It belongs to the Vanbrugh-Hawksmoor-Archer group and can hold its own . ’ |
| 28 | The first needs a strong local angle of interest to its community , the other something that can hold its own against all the other stories of the day . |
| 29 | Perhaps the slow movement misses out on exploratory shadings , but this is still a performance that can hold its own beside the finest currently available — which is to say Mintz and Bronfman on DG . |
| 30 | It is also a good idea when keeping cichlids together , or with larger fish , to decorate the aquarium in such a way so as to set out individual territories so each fish can establish its own personal niche |