Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [vb infin] [that] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The verbal expression of a maxim will be something like : ‘ In circumstances of such and such a sort I shall act thus ’ , and I act immorally unless I can will that all agents should guide their behaviour by a corresponding maxim directed at themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ I am satisfied that there are no grounds on which I can say that these charges are bad , but with regard to the equity of redemption I am satisfied on the evidence that what Mrs. Wardman did was at the request of and in reliance on her daughter , and under her influence . |
| 3 | ‘ I can see that such questions could seem relevant to your inquiry and for that reason I 'm prepared to be frank . |
| 4 | Looking back I can see that some details of the various journeys have become confused in my memory . |
| 5 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 6 | But when Saturdays come and the pressure is on you can see that some players are not as confident as they should be and that 's probably our main problem . ’ |
| 7 | Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map . |
| 8 | You can imagine that some drivers er went the wrong way , and it was just that they , they just did n't concentrate on the run but nowadays they seem to run all over the town . |
| 9 | If buckets large enough to hold several records are used , we can expect that these buckets will be more evenly filled than individual records fill single addresses ; this can be examined using the Poisson distribution . |
| 10 | Fewer than one in ten of LEAs in England and Wales have conducted thorough language surveys , which means that we can assume that most schools still have less than adequate knowledge about the languages and dialects known to their pupils . |
| 11 | We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways . |
| 12 | First of all , we can concede that most adults like to have their education packaged up as ‘ entertainment ’ . |
| 13 | Accepting that we respond to our environment , whether it is natural or artificial , we can see that these responses appear to produce further changes in us . |
| 14 | However , from the transitions shown graphically in figure 3 ( right hand side ) and the energies given in the lower half of table 1 , we can see that these transitions are not notably more difficult than those of the junctions already discussed . |
| 15 | Turning now to the issue of occupational differentiation we can see that those occupations which are generally accorded the title of professions base their claims to special status on a number of grounds which together or separately might be used by any other occupational group . |
| 16 | In GCSE , assuming the existing pattern continues , we can predict that more boys than girls will be entered at the top level , and proportionally more boys will gain grade A. |
| 17 | The UKCC has the moral high ground : it can argue that such courses must be funded in order to ensure safe practice and to protect the vulnerable public from nurses or health visitors whose practice is out of date and potentially dangerous . |