Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [adv] [verb] that the " in BNC.

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1 However , one can not conclude that the committees have a sufficiently important role either :
2 Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players .
3 The crusade was inspired by many motives , of which one can surely say that the lowest — and perhaps , with less conviction , the highest too — were religious .
4 In fact , one can plausibly argue that the 1937 Mirror reader had just as much public affairs news as was available in 1927 .
5 No one can confidently say that the initial calm which has greeted the news of the deportations will not give way to a far more vigorous reaction .
6 Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education .
7 In the case of many British statistics of populations one can hardly say that the Registrar-General himself is the writer .
8 One would also tend to accept verbatim reports of judicial court proceedings , evidence given before special committees of enquiry , so long as one can genuinely believe that the people keeping the record were quite impartial and skilled in their work and that all they took down has been printed without editing .
9 One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains .
10 One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about .
11 One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble .
12 One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity .
13 One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect .
14 One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result .
15 One can only hope that the £2 million restructured county ground at Bristol , where the old Victorian orphanages can give such a depressing aura to the ambience , will bring a corresponding resurgence in the fortunes of the team .
16 One can only conclude that the story about the two-way radios is entirely false .
17 Well , we have our own gifts , but the presentation of food is not one of them , and since French cooks and food purveyors so often appear to lose the lightness of their touch in this respect when they leave their native land and settle abroad , one can only conclude that the special stimulant which brings these gifts into flower is in the air of France itself .
18 One can only conclude that the bare and to infinitives are anything but meaningless contextual variants .
19 One can only suppose that the smiths at Igbo Ukwu enjoyed demonstrating their virtuosity .
20 Using such stereotypes , one can then argue that the occult sciences of the Renaissance could contribute nothing to the new sciences of the seventeenth century .
21 One can then say that the mean velocity gradient depends only on u τ and y , although one can not say the same for U because it is separated from its origin by a region in which v is important .
22 Yes , yes , I think in , I think in general one can certainly say that the more , and this touches on what said about personality types if a personality has a strongly developed superego themselves , they 're likely to be very independent , sometimes to the point of arrogance .
23 Besides , while the financial implications of the defeat by England have never been revealed , one can safely assume that the loss has deprived the French players of a fair amount of endorsements and sponsorship .
24 One can therefore assume that the impressions will be embedded in the brain in nonsensical recollections quite unconnected with the structure of the environment ’ .
25 One can therefore say that the courts retain the power to read statutes in the light of general principles , the only question being whether the particular court will be able to find or invent a general principle that will enable it to give a sensible effect to the statute .
26 One can therefore say that the observations of the gamma ray background do not provide any positive evidence for primordial black holes , but they do tell us that on average there can not be more than 300 in every cubic light-year in the universe .
27 One can therefore say that the Reynolds stress works against the mean velocity gradient to remove energy from the mean flow , just as the viscous stress works against the velocity gradient .
28 Erm , I do n't see how anybody can possibly say that the police are not privileged .
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