Example sentences of "that it can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | InterCity now has a range of offers — first class , standard and the Saver ticket — the purpose of which is , by offering varying fares to channel demand so that it can spread the load over existing capacity . |
| 32 | It does not exclude anything ; but that is not to say that it can attain everything . |
| 33 | We want the Government to think carefully and respond positively to our recommendations , because we are anxious that the rate of increase in the Budget from now on should not be jacked up by the powerful lobby of the industry and the influence that it can exert on the Government . |
| 34 | Alternatively , any firm which has made a definite decision not to seek authorisation must ensure that it understands what constitutes investment business and , having established that it can refer clients to suitable authorised independent advisers , avoid further involvement like the plague . |
| 35 | Labour believes that it can hijack the EC towards the type of socialism that has been rejected throughout eastern Europe . |
| 36 | The school will be monitored by means of the number of passes at 7 , 11 , and 14 that it can record . |
| 37 | The 1938 Act was repealed and replaced by the Inheritance ( provision for Family and Dependants ) Act 1975 , which increases the range of dependants who may apply for provision on death and gives the court wider powers than previously existed so that it can make whatever type of order may be most appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 38 | Combinations of consonants , vowels and spaces are stored in memory and compared with what has been typed into the machine , so that it can make an identification . |
| 39 | It is , however , equally true that Parliament can not stop Frenchmen smoking on the streets of Paris ( or , for that matter , Englishmen smoking on the streets of London ) and that it can make it a crime for a man not to turn into a woman . |
| 40 | ‘ I sometimes use an ambient mic on guitars , but I find that it can make things sound a bit too boxy and I 'd rather have the choice on the mix if I want to add a bit of ambience . |
| 41 | He concluded : ‘ It seems to me that the only purpose the FBI has in proposing such a law would be so that it can make telephone taps without the cooperation of the telephone company … in other words , what they are asking for is the ability to make warrant-less taps . ’ |
| 42 | But Zurich believes that it can make the business profitable with the right package of tailor-made services — for instance , advice on security of buildings and reduction of accidents at work as well as insurance . |
| 43 | In a democratic society , this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science , so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts . |
| 44 | Quite apart from the quality aspect , this also means that it can make use of the enormous range of fonts that are available for LaserJet printers . |
| 45 | From this the courts have inferred that , except where the employer is under a statutory duty or there is some other restriction as to the type of contract that it can make with its servants or the grounds on which it can dismiss them , the servant has no procedural protection . |
| 46 | Is he further aware of the important contribution that it can make in large and more geographically remote areas , as it allows casualty access to larger regional hospitals in the event of mountaineering or road accident emergencies ? |
| 47 | I urge the local authority in Durham to develop a relationship with housing associations so that it can make faster progress in meeting the problems to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 48 | Besides this direct funding of research , the Council believes that it can make a more general contribution to the development of science and technology policy . |
| 49 | The problem with this sort of approach is that it can make standards yet more remote from those most in need of them . |
| 50 | For example , the West Glamorgan consumer protection department deals with the problems of the local small shopkeepers and the Office of Fair Trading collates information from it and from all the other consumer departments so that it can identify whether there is a general abuse that needs remedial action . |
| 51 | One of the best things about the Empire army is that it can accommodate almost any style of play . |
| 52 | I 've already said this morning that the District Council does not consider that it can accommodate any further dwellings within the Southern Ryedale area without adversely affecting the character of the settlements that are already there , or compromising greenbelt objectives , erm , so therefore to meet the Greater York total , the District Council considers it essential that there is a new settlement to take that amount of housing that can not be accommodated within the Southern Ryedale area . |
| 53 | The 1992 UN conference on the environment could be the right place for an analytical look at what the world needs to do to ensure that it can feed its vulnerable populations in the next country . |
| 54 | Thus the distribution of property is not so unequal that it can threaten the liberty of the individual . |
| 55 | One of the advantages of the bureaucratic structure is that it can ensure continuity through the use of standard work practices and also provide some measure of stability . |
| 56 | During our presidency we must extend the competence of the Community so that it can ensure that once animal welfare regulations are passed they are enforced — from Spain to Scotland and from Ireland to Greece . |
| 57 | Ascii Corp , the Japanese software company founded by Bill Gates 's erstwhile buddy Kay Nishi , is going to start peddling UnixWare this month , figuring that it can do $4.2m in sales year one ; a Japanese-language version is due in July and Ascii reckons 30 to 50 value-added resellers out of the 200 that sell Informix should bite . |
| 58 | Mr Premadasa 's five years in office have left Sri Lanka with a taste of the best and the worst that it can do . |
| 59 | So good that it can do it almost without help from history : it manages to turn 20th-century products into cult objects of British tradition . |
| 60 | You may be surprised to learn that it can do . |