Example sentences of "of [noun] can [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also ventured a definition of hegemony , ‘ the totality of all laws and other arrangements by means of which the leading power of a union of states can give the community the desired direction and the stamp of its own spirit . |
| 2 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 3 | This way of teaching can work the other way about . |
| 4 | Any self-declared woman-centred account or interpretation of experience can assume the status of absolute truth . |
| 5 | At the other end of the lane lay the manor of ‘ Bertone ’ : no amount of ingenuity can carry the lane any farther north than this . |
| 6 | Even a relatively small additional sum of money can enable the purchase of additional equipment which will make the difference between being poorly and adequately resourced . |
| 7 | In this business , a sense of direction can mean the difference between laughing like a drain or getting caught with your trousers around the ankles of a friend you never had . |
| 8 | However , too heavy an emphasis on the affective dimensions of care-giving can obscure the sheer physical and emotional labour involved ( as the current rhetoric of ‘ community care ’ indeed does ) . |
| 9 | Both types of constraint can form the basis for monetary control techniques : |
| 10 | Repetition of words can create the same sort of chain as pronouns , and there are sometimes good reasons for preferring it . |
| 11 | Like the corrosive effects of steady doses of pessimism , the constant injection of a note of optimism can alter the whole tenor of a meeting . |
| 12 | Benno Baksteen , chairman of the Dutch pilots ' association , said : ‘ A sudden loss of wind can cause the aircraft to lose wind speed suddenly and to such an extent that it can no longer fly and falls . ’ |
| 13 | The reversal of roles can cause the patient anxiety . |
| 14 | No amount of stylishness can disguise the banality of a writer 's conception , she asserts , or — as in Theroux 's case — something much more questionable . |
| 15 | The formation of intrusions can affect the landsurface in two ways . |
| 16 | As we mention in the section on Concentration , a good time-table of study can take the place of motivation until such motivation develops of its own accord . |
| 17 | No limited , finite positive form of religion can encapsulate the universality or infinitude of religion . |
| 18 | President Jose Sulaiman said : ‘ We know a single drop of blood can transport the virus , and there are fights in which there is a lot of blood . ’ |
| 19 | ABOVE The analysis of finds can indicate the export and trade of goods . |
| 20 | A patch of waterfront can treble the value of an ordinary house . |
| 21 | ‘ A good team of administrators can provide the logistical support and the efficient administration — the service element , if you like — necessary for the new entrepreneurs . |
| 22 | By buying and selling foreign currencies on the foreign exchange market , the Bank of England can affect the exchange rate . |
| 23 | Thus the Bank of England can alter the discount rate by altering the supply of Treasury bills . |
| 24 | What sort of machine can run the largest and most demanding of spreadsheets without a hiccup and yet still be a reasonable price ? |
| 25 | The baton is , however , necessary at the Opéra , where large choruses are frequently sung in the wings … it must not be thought that such a distant group of singers can hear the orchestra , however numerous : each person sings in his neighbour 's ear , and I have sometimes surprised myself by singing off the beat and incorrectly conducting [ conduisant ] the chorus surrounding me . |
| 26 | No amount of crystal-gazing can show the outcome of this debate . |
| 27 | Such consumption of lithosphere can take the form of either subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate capped by continental crust or the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a second oceanic plate . |
| 28 | Give illustrations of how the behaviour of individuals can affect the planning and control process . |
| 29 | Norbert Wiener 's basic view is that the ideas of individuals can trigger the larger processes that lead to innovation by their influence on the ‘ intellectual climate ’ in which science , the arts and technology all develop . |
| 30 | But when the time comes to close , this delicate balance between gleaming efficient machinery and the secret world of nature can relent the man made , now nature takes over , unfettered by schedules or the relentless hurry into the night shift , it creeps into the bare workings of the place and then it 's not the rest of the world within a world . |