Example sentences of "that can [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Environmental factors that can affect the success of a bioremediation scheme include : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The advocacy of spending is concentrated in vocal and influential communities and client groups that can affect the electoral chances of politicians . |
| 11 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 12 | Now chemists have discovered several compounds of transition metals such as tungsten and iridium that can split an alkane carbon-hydrogen bond to form a carbon-metal bond instead . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In matters of ‘ national security ’ — a phrase that can cover a multitude of sins — the judiciary in Britain is very reluctant to question executive action . |
| 15 | It is the only form of organization that can enable a company to employ large numbers of people and yet preserve unambiguous accountability for the work they do . |
| 16 | With the aid of the transcript of radio communications , which includes time injections that can enable every word spoken to be timed within one fifth of a second , the investigator begins to build up the history of the flight . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " Is there no law that can disband a private army before it gets into uniform " one leader writer thundered . |
| 19 | We have identified five forms of ‘ related ’ diversification that can pass the better-off test . |
| 20 | The new profit and loss centre is aimed at driving Sun into areas it has n't been before , such as the embedded arena , and seeking customers that can create a string of derivative products . |
| 21 | There is also a wide range of paving materials that can create a very decorative effect . |
| 22 | He is sound , very sound , but in my opinion lacks the extra something that can create a maître chef . |
| 23 | Fatigue is another factor that can effect the pods causing the end plates to bend or crack and lose contact . |
| 24 | Finally there is one ancient , natural poison that can plague an inexperienced feline . |
| 25 | Gen. Than Shwe said that " at present we can not find any organization that can govern the country in a peaceful and stable manner " . |
| 26 | The Chelsea skipper insisted : ‘ That is the kind of tackle that can end a player 's career — and it is one Fitzroy Simpson can not be proud of . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The parser was trained by taking a database of manually parsed sentences and extracting statistics that refer to the likelihood of a non-terminal parse being obtained from a set of constituents ( e.g. what are the possible set of constituents that can form an adjectival phrase and how likely are they to do so ) . |
| 30 | Surrey and West Sussex area is piloting a recruitment sub-committee that can relieve the area officer of the interviewing task . |