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

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1 I have now had time to reflect on whether the inherent constraints of working within the structure of a commission can appreciatively reduce the impact of a painting .
2 Its just difficult to explain how the defence works as a team , and one weak link can badly affect the rests confidence .
3 I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives .
4 We can not dictate what our children will make of the Community , but we must leave them in a position where they can effectively influence the shape of Europe , and that Europe must be one in which we retain our distinct national identity .
5 Concessionary crownholds were also applicable to ‘ bodies which can effectively supervise the assignment of such houses ’ , such as housing associations .
6 By doing this you can effectively extend the scope of the language .
7 ‘ Team nursing is not merely a method of assigning individuals to a group : rather it is an implementation of the philosophy that holds that a group of people led by a knowledgeable nurse can effectively meet the nursing needs of a group of patients .
8 Rewriting inequalities such as ( 10.3 ) in this form shows that by allowing a constant term in the objective we can effectively make the goal zero for all objectives .
9 Ultimately only peers or experiment can effectively deny the wish to try a drug .
10 Incineration , for example , can effectively reduce the volume of rubbish but still leaves the problem of non-combustible material ; covering with rocks is not an ideal solution because the rubbish may be uncovered by scavenging yaks , herders and climbers ; incarceration in glacier crevasses is not recommended because it is likely that the rubbish will ultimately reappear .
11 The study will be concerned not only with the social processes which provoke behaviour disorder , but will also test the hypothesis that improved social and family circumstances , and a positive school environment , can effectively reduce the risk of deviance .
12 In this address I also criticised the fashion of ‘ deconstruction ’ , and I argued that we can effectively understand the cultures of alien peoples and remote epochs , although , naturally , we can also misunderstand them .
13 If they are allowed to inbreed even further this can eventually spoil the species .
14 Adding a generation or two can vastly extend the possible claims .
15 In the last of an eight-part series , MICHAEL WILCOX show us how our knowledge of colour and colour types can vastly expand the palette
16 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 .
17 Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) .
18 And where does that leave us historians , who are not only being told that only blacks and whites , or Basques , or Croats , can properly understand the history of these respective groups , but to invent the sort of history that they want to ‘ understand ’ ?
19 During beta testing , Bristol will be working with small independent software vendors willing to hand their source code over to Bristol so that it can properly babysit the whole operation .
20 We must know what these facts are in order that we can properly predict the enforcement of reparation , either specific or compensatory , in case of non-performance .
21 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 .
22 This diversity means that ‘ across-the-board ’ policies can rarely meet the specific needs of individual areas .
23 While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date .
24 Whereas we can rarely help the ‘ delinquent ’ adult , we have some responsibility to young people with particular problems or insecurities that show in ‘ anti-social ’ behaviour and attitudes .
25 Then provided the authorities control the supply of ‘ cash ’ by , say , open-market operations , it would seem that they can thereby control the creation of credit and hence deposits .
26 One good reason why such people ( if they want to become anthropologists ) should start off by studying a cultural system which is radically different from their own is that they can thereby undergo the traumatic experience of discovering that , in other societies , this deeply emotive private/public distinction may operate in quite a different way .
27 For many of these people , anxiety about money and about arranging credit can powerfully reinforce the general tendency to stick to credit arrangements they are familiar with , and avoid searching out new and perhaps better-value alternatives .
28 Once more , people can successfully avoid the tax and the revenue is comparatively small — 2,000 million in 1990/1 .
29 Specialist day centres , advice centres , and advisory services staffed largely by professionals and volunteers from the community can successfully bridge the cultural divide and also link individuals into mainstream services when these are required .
30 In the case of ‘ ideal ’ noise-free experimental data , various simple algorithms , exploiting graph structures or tree-search techniques , can successfully order the library .
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