Example sentences of "that can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also points out the importance of the older person having some privacy however dependent he or she becomes , with a room that can double as a sitting room and includes , if possible , TV , electric kettle , cups , and so on , so that there is an independent place to be . |
| 2 | The ultimate aim is to generate as much electricity as it consumes at all its sites , including shops , across the UK. * British Telecom is testing a pair of wind-powered telephone boxes , with electricity generated by a small windmill attached to the top of the box being used to charge a battery that can power a light in the box . |
| 3 | Nobody in this much bull-shitted century has achieved anything that can outlast what the men who laid out these stones did here . |
| 4 | For example , people who wish to record the activity of single cells in the brains of freely moving animals argue about whether to use very fine electrodes that can record from even the smallest cells but give very unstable recordings , or to use larger electrodes that bias the sample to larger cells but give more stable recordings ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds et al . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the high-end 620 chip , for moderately to massively parallel servers , is said to be being set for 64 bits with a special environment mode bit that can switch between 32- and 64-bit operation . |
| 6 | Included within the SVR4.2 , Moolit ( Motif/Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit ) allows developers to build applications that can switch dynamically between Open Look and Motif look and feel . |
| 7 | Happier are those that can switch between roles as and when conditions dictate . |
| 8 | Legs have become elongated into catapults that can propel an insect two hundred times its own body length , broad oars to row , it through water or thin hair-tipped stilts with a wide stride that enables their owners to walk on the surface of pools . |
| 9 | Different fields of research have disclosed the many different factors that can affect both physical and mental behaviour . |
| 10 | Environmental factors that can affect the success of a bioremediation scheme include : |
| 11 | When a product is in regular production , however , there may be , with the passage of time , unsuspected and undetected changes in raw materials , methods of product handling or some other change that can affect the stability of the product . |
| 12 | This approach also encourages the analyst to look beyond the basic procedure to the wider systems that it is part of and the environment that can affect both requirements and performance , in the process gaining an understanding of all the relevant factors that need to be taken into account . |
| 13 | Moreover , audit committees function most effectively when their members understand clearly the financial reporting process , the types of issue that can affect that process , and the relationships between management , auditors and regulators . |
| 14 | ‘ Hyperplastic cell proliferation — is a condition that can affect all species of fish . |
| 15 | Another factor in the pupil 's near environment that can affect the comfortable use of vision for work is the ‘ fit ’ of the furniture ( chair , desk , table ) in terms of individual requirements . |
| 16 | From these goals three areas for enhancement were specified : new directives — structured comments that download commands to the compiler ; new constructs — a definition for operations that can affect the way a program is interpreted ; and language restrictions , which limit the use of sequence and storage association to avoid conflicts with distributed data . |
| 17 | From these goals three areas for enhancement were specified : new directives — structured comments that download commands to the compiler — new constructs — a definition for operations that can affect the way a program is interpreted — and language restrictions , which limit the use of sequence and storage association to avoid conflicts with distributed data . |
| 18 | Co that can affect your steering ca n't it ? |
| 19 | Erm the Teachers ' Pensions Agen Agency 's currently reviewing erm the work that can affect pensions . |
| 20 | But part time hourly paid lecturing for example is n't eligible work under the teachers ' superannuation scheme although they are bringing that one into into the work that can affect . |
| 21 | This is because , along with rural-urban differences in health , sanitation , nutrition standards and other relevant measurable factors that can affect the mother 's health before and during pregnancy , there are also rural-urban differences in folk customs , traditions and beliefs and other intangibles that bear upon reproduction and reproductive behaviour . |
| 22 | Today , however , there is a much greater realisation that the quality of the data is important to their precision and quantification and , in this regard , it is important to be able to assess the validity and the reliability of those data by understanding the nature of the collection instrument itself , the biases that it is heir to , and the kinds of instrumental corruptions that can affect the quality of the material it provides . |
| 23 | The advocacy of spending is concentrated in vocal and influential communities and client groups that can affect the electoral chances of politicians . |
| 24 | Species with club-shaped spines include active hunters ( although they tend to hunt sluggish animals like other sea urchins ) and they have powerful jaws on the lower side of the animal that can munch their way through a sand dollar as if it were a biscuit . |
| 25 | The Japanese education ministry has launched a five year project to produce machines that can repair themselves , thus reducing the need for human intervention . |
| 26 | Certainly , parents who have had easy babies and amenable children may be unprepared for the changed behaviour that can characterize adolescence . |
| 27 | The intention is to indicate the degree of ambiguity and the general lack of information that can characterize debate on tax reform . |
| 28 | The problem for the research scientist is to devise methodologies that can detect and receive the different modes of action of a therapy without distorting it . |
| 29 | Finally , because some software houses have already started to write in copyguards that can detect Happy Chips , it has a ‘ slow it down ’ mode which prevents the copyguard from spotting the intruder . |
| 30 | The new Foxhound fighter , a development of the famous MiG-25 Foxbat , is the first Russian aircraft to carry an advanced radar that can detect cruise missiles flying at low levels . |