Example sentences of "[vb mod] readily [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her eccentricity and the fact that they could n't help laughing at her , the Girls would readily acknowledge that she gave them as much , if not more , affection than they had received from their own parents . |
| 2 | Not that he made the claim himself Mr Kilroy-Silk would readily acknowledge that he learned the egg trick from Mike Molloy , now editor of the Sunday Mirror , at a house party . |
| 3 | They would readily accept that an omnipresent divine being can not be viewed through a telescope , however powerful , just as heaven is not a place which can be spied upon as though it were a distant planet . |
| 4 | We would readily accept that a few members of our profession have , on occasion , behaved deplorably . |
| 5 | We may readily show that the matrix X is non-singular. for if it is not , let us first suppose it to be simply degenerate . |
| 6 | In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . ) |
| 7 | Most of the humans who have been involved in rescues of dolphins or small whales such as pilot whales will readily admit that it is an emotional and moving experience . |
| 8 | Furthermore , I think that my readers will readily grant that in reality these two phenomena usually go hand-in-hand to create a vicious and self-sustaining circle of growth in state power promoting individual impotence causing more state power , etc . |
| 9 | As Althusser was keen to emphasize , according to Marx morality works simply as a form of ideological control , and Levinas concurs that ‘ everyone will readily agree that it is the highest importance to know whether we are not duped by morality ’ ( 21 ) . |
| 10 | I am reasonably sure that by this time any fair-minded reader with a spark of decency will readily acknowledge that all the apparent similarities between Daniel Miller and myself have been more than satisfactorily explained . |
| 11 | Many readers will readily recognise that such purchase decisions are often fraught with difficulty and argument . |
| 12 | The user , whether the operator of the system when it is operational or the manager of the department it is aimed to help , can readily check that the DFD is accurate because it is so graphical . |
| 13 | One can readily appreciate that what applies to the siting and design of the pool also applies to the internal structure . |
| 14 | But its advocates can readily concede that the Russian or British equivalents of , say , the US State Department have less national influence without thereby conceding an inch on the general proposition about the power of bureaucracies . |
| 15 | Turning now to impertinent , we can readily see that although the im -is replaceable by zero , it does not qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 16 | Our ideas about rationality , within a pluralistic society , are bound to be complex and fuzzy , but even so we can readily see that certain kinds of rationality are dominant . |
| 17 | If we recall what was said earlier regarding the trend in primate evolution which promoted the visual sense over that of smell and prehensile agility over terrestrial quadrupedalism , we can readily see that the definitive adoption of a fully upright posture in man is only the culmination of this much more general evolutionary tendency . |
| 18 | Now we can readily see that the evident lack of a culturally defined latency period — by which we really mean one resulting from an enforcement of the incest taboo during childhood — is entirely explicable and , indeed , inevitable in these circumstances . |
| 19 | Here , anything that threatens the superego tends to be destructive ; and we can readily see that the externalization of conflict , although defensive for the ego , may be damaging for the culture because the effect of the externalization is to make the culture the locus of the conflict . |
| 20 | I am not entirely clear in my own mind what that last sentence really means , but from what I have written so far you can readily see that the movement towards Euthanasia is to the fore . |