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

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1 It can enable the reluctant and shy to enter into discussion with greater enthusiasm at home or at work .
2 Recently developed by British Gas , it can prepare the
3 But where the scheme is feasible it can relieve the pressures for all concerned .
4 The card often has its own processor , typically on 80186 or 80188 , and it can relieve the main CPU of some of the donkey work of controlling a hard disk .
5 The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage .
6 The strength of the referential communication approach , sensitively employed , is that it can model the decontextualized world of the classroom .
7 Once a bank purchases such bills it can hold the bills to maturity or sell them in a secondary market to any other bank(s) .
8 In an air test , stoppers are used to block off the ends of the drain and air is blown into the drain to see whether it can hold the pressure .
9 It can be consistently hard like the cutting edge of hardened steel , or it can offer the iridescence of tulle draped into a soft light .
10 Following changes to the Open Software Foundation 's Motif 1.2 licensing terms , IXI says it can offer the Motif runtime for £50 in volume as opposed to OSF 's $2,000 source fee .
11 If it can offer the fellowship of a club , young people may well risk the scorn of their peers to belong to it .
12 Although this is not the same as decay or rotting , it can weaken the joints if the splits appear where the fixings are .
13 Sir Frank added that Britain had no ‘ power to do anything other than see if it can influence the French or whichever country it may be .
14 From the group 's perspective , it desires to be involved where it can influence the final shape of a policy so that it maximizes the benefits and minimizes the losses to its members .
15 However , as a strategic planning authority , it is through the Structure Plan process that it can influence the protection of natural resources such as peat lands , and the opportunity for this will arise in the current review of the Plan which will be available for public consultation in the New Year .
16 Labour believes that it can hijack the EC towards the type of socialism that has been rejected throughout eastern Europe .
17 It can complicate the management of in-patients beds if beds have to be kept available to accommodate persons on leave of absence who may relapse and require urgent readmission and it can distort the patient statistics .
18 The particular organisation can build up its own expertise ; it can acquire answers which are then relayed ; it can refer the enquirer to another agency ; it can bring in specialists to answer the enquiries direct .
19 Knill said that without such commissioned research ‘ there would be a massive depletion in environmental research in this country ’ , although it can distract the scientists .
20 The notion of a learned non-correlation fails for a rather different reason — it can accommodate the facts but largely because it attempts little more than a redescription of the facts to be explained .
21 The disease usually occurs as an acute infection of the throat , but it can affect the heart and brain of infants and young children .
22 But it can affect the way the rig interacts and I 'm pointing it out as it relates to all rack systems , not just those based upon a JMP-1 .
23 If all this can happen to a person who 's lost a job , you can see how it can affect the whole family .
24 However , it is clear that calcium has a multiplicity of effects within the cell , and there are other ways in which it can affect the synaptic membrane .
25 Through the 1988 Act , however , it can affect the future of a school because it bears on competition for the school .
26 Potentially damaging conflict between these subgroups is avoided by channelling mutual competition into an avenue where it can benefit the group as a whole .
27 Has remarkable habit of dropping bones from a height on to a hard surface to split them so that it can eat the marrow .
28 Indeed , it can draw the line in such a way as to make synonyms of the terms form and content .
29 it can irritate the airway too and you can cough because of hiatus hernias .
30 It can fine-tune the signal the receptors pass on , and it can change the number of receptors .
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