Example sentences of "can [vb infin] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RESEARCH is to be carried out in Darlington to look at how the borough council can coordinate its green policies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A board can make its own arrangements for considering such applications ( subs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Suffering can make its full contribution to my awareness only if I do not pursue it in advance , even though its value may be appreciated in retrospect . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It is sometimes possible for a swap to be arranged , so that a company that wants a fixed rate loan , can swop its floating rate loan for one with a fixed rate arranged by a company that prefers a floating rated loan . |
| 9 | It is perhaps appropriate that in an age which can design its high-speed trains to resemble aeroplanes and its low-speed trains to resemble buses , its stations should equally have no identifiable association with the railways . |
| 10 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |
| 11 | This is so , not least because the efficiency of a PLC 's operation can affect its financial statements : stores which allow inventory to deteriorate unnoticed will not only lose the company money , they will overstate the stock valuation in the balance sheet . |
| 12 | The most common means of measuring the growth of government is suggested by a third way , that the government can affect its social . |
| 13 | Segmentation has been discussed and its importance illustrated ; once effective segmentation has been achieved , a company can concentrate its promotional effort on a particular target market . |
| 14 | Vitamin D The body can manufacture its own vitamin D if exposed to sunlight . |
| 15 | Before the Clinton administration can pursue its own ideas on research and development , it must deal with the ‘ big science ’ bequeathed to it . |
| 16 | If it wishes to , a company can surrender its entire ACT ( as opposed to merely the surplus amount ) . |
| 17 | Thanks to the excellent response — nearly a third of the University 's 65,000 alumni replied — we now know enough to build a framework on which the University can base its future plans for alumni relations . |
| 18 | It reaches 12″ long and has been bred in captivity — but in outdoor ponds where it can burrow its distinctive hiding place in the bank . |
| 19 | It can carry its 101 passengers at more than 80 km/h across waves 1.5 m high . |
| 20 | STRENGTH — so your body can exert its maximum force |
| 21 | When you are happy with the sensitivity of the unit , you can improve its authentic appearance by arranging for a short length of ‘ bluff ’ wire to emerge from the case and disappear under the dashboard at a convenient location . |
| 22 | Since 12 > 1 , we see that a pessimistic firm can improve its expected profits by using randomised strategies , where a randomised strategy specifies a probability P i that the ith action is chosen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I mean , er FIMBRA can do its regulatory bit , the same as the police can regulate or the , or the government can regulate , but only within certain er parameters , and if somebody really wants to cheat , then they will cheat anyway and er we 've go we 're in a very sophisticated position where the directors of B C C I were able to move money from one continent to another and it meant er it looked as if you 'd actually got money in three separate areas , but in fact there was only one lot and it was being moved rapidly . |
| 25 | The shared fun , or criticism , of a text can bring its own satisfaction . |
| 26 | That can bring its own dangers . |
| 27 | A new bank account that recognises that , being able to make your own decisions can bring its own problems . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | A major start has already been made with the agreement that Scottish Nuclear can store its spent fuel on site rather than send it to BNF 's reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria , which will save £45 million a year . |
| 30 | There seems to be two possible ways in which our Party can keep its old force . |