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

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1 Unless you have some experience in cutting clay pipes ( or can arrange the layout so that no cutting is necessary ) , it is probably best to stick with the easier-to-use uPVC .
2 Once you know or can guess the reason , and this should be obvious from your conversation , you can decide what action to take .
3 It can perform flow injection analysis ( FIA ) and segmented continuous flow analysis ( SFA ) independently or can combine the techniques on a single test allowing automatic sample pretreatment such as dilution , concentration and/or filtration on-line , The Super Cartridge is a two part heater consisting of a spool of polymeric tubing which droops over a cone-shaped heater .
4 The snag for the user is that , in most cases , unless he or she has access to a piece of ready-written graphics software or can program the machine to create the required displays from scratch these features seldom get used to the full .
5 You can draw down the full amount arranged for your loan all at once , or can take the money in stages .
6 Customers can buy it pre-loaded or can buy the software modules separately .
7 Officials never have or can have the full range of choices displayed before them .
8 Anselm himself never quoted this analogy , but he went so far as to warn the pope that if he gave an adverse judgement in the dispute between Canterbury and York ‘ I would on no account remain in England ; for I neither ought to , nor can allow the primacy of our church to be destroyed while I am alive . ’
9 Environmental factors that can affect the success of a bioremediation scheme include :
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The advocacy of spending is concentrated in vocal and influential communities and client groups that can affect the electoral chances of politicians .
17 At present there are less than ten laboratories in Britain that can isolate the organism , and most of these are working as research units rather than as service units prepared to isolate chlamydia as part of the standard diagnostic screening that should be available .
18 One common source of fumes is the foam-backing on carpets — this tends to break down due to constant wear , and formaldehyde ( see above ) may interact with it to produce toxic airborne chemicals that can irritate the airways causing symptoms similar to bronchitis .
19 We have identified five forms of ‘ related ’ diversification that can pass the better-off test .
20 Fatigue is another factor that can effect the pods causing the end plates to bend or crack and lose contact .
21 Gen. Than Shwe said that " at present we can not find any organization that can govern the country in a peaceful and stable manner " .
22 First , at currents of more than a few amps , capacitors that can carry the current without suffering di/dt stress , heating stress , and MHz ringing tend to be physically large , and expensive compared with normal power supply capacitors .
23 In recent years the generative linguistic community has recognised this failing and made efforts to produce more general systems that can form the basis of further research .
24 Surrey and West Sussex area is piloting a recruitment sub-committee that can relieve the area officer of the interviewing task .
25 The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws .
26 Since most societies would appear not to match up to Goody 's ideal , there would seem to be few studies that can avoid the question .
27 For Adrian Hop there 's nothing that can ease the pain of the loss of his daughter but perhaps he says she wo n't have died in vain .
28 All stressed skin structures exhibit a minimum surface tension that can contain the applied forces .
29 To determine whether acute smoking has an acute effect on gastric secretion that can explain the findings of the chronic studies , the effect of this on gastric secretion was studied using the same methods as those used in the chronic studies of Whitfield and Hobsley .
30 Its sole aim is to set you thinking along constructive lines , to indicate what is possible , to advise on the best sources of information and to help you avoid the pitfalls that can trap the unwary .
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