Example sentences of "that [adj] [noun] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we remember that that peace can only be maintained while we have our statesmen and perhaps even more important , our armed forces . |
| 2 | Moreover , when we consider the courses that Pound was led into by his conviction of the civic responsibility of the man of letters — his money pamphlets of the 1930s , his desperate visit home in 1938 to keep the USA out of war with Italy , particularly his wartime broadcasts over Rome radio — we have some right to conclude either that the artist has no civic responsibility at all , or else that that responsibility can safely be discharged only in his art and nowhere else . |
| 3 | It allowed , for instance , a little chat between Mrs Thatcher and a BBC reporter , the main purpose of which escaped me , unless it was to show that that lady can not be excluded from anything . |
| 4 | To say ‘ the Word was made flesh ’ , then , refers not to a simple identity of God and Jesus but to a relationship in which God lovingly identifies himself in and with a real human person , 80 that that person can truly be called the Word , the self-communication and self-objectification of God in human terms … . |
| 5 | But where one concludes from this that theistic terms can not be understood , the other concludes that they are the language of ‘ faith ’ , directly given to the believer by God . |
| 6 | However , this analysis is important in showing that it is not rational expectations itself which produces the result that monetary policy can not be used to stabilize real variables in the economy ; rather , it is the combination of rational expectations and a particular class of model . |
| 7 | For these reasons monetarists argue that monetary policy can not be used for short-run demand management . |
| 8 | For myself , I remain convinced that private morality can not be divorced from public and environmental moralities and I predict that the politics of the future will have to lay greater stress on this area of life . |
| 9 | Secondly , he rejects the very assumption of classical theory that economic phenomena can ultimately be explained as the result of universal needs . |
| 10 | The so-called ‘ trickle-down economics ’ is the Reagan-era notion that economic prosperity can best be assured through tax cuts for the rich . |
| 11 | Tumin maintains that ‘ It is only when there is a genuinely equal access to recruitment and training for all potentially talented persons that differential rewards can conceivably be justified as functional . |
| 12 | There simply are not enough competing news organizations to provide adequate variety and debate between them , and the technical or commercial factors that hinder the creation of rival news organizations mean that free speech can not be guaranteed by open entry into a system of competing news organizations . |
| 13 | This is not to say that adequate recognition can not be achieved without understanding , but rather an appreciation of the processes involved in understanding may facilitate the design of more efficient recognition algorithms and systems . |
| 14 | However , in contrast to the spread of classical gene mutations by selection and drift , Dover points out that some mutations can also be spread by internal mechanisms of ‘ turnover ’ in DNA . |
| 15 | Sometimes we seem to be losing touch with the fact that some activities can not be rushed . |
| 16 | To claim that there is only one substance sounds like an answer to the question " How many substances are there ? " and Spinoza 's conception of substance is such that this question can not be properly asked . |
| 17 | In the following section , on the other hand , I argue that this vocabulary can equally be undermined if the evidence for God 's existence is too weak . |
| 18 | Mr. Watkinson accepted that the closing words of section 69(1) place a difficulty in his way , but he maintained that this difficulty can not be allowed to outweigh the clear words of Lord Bridge of Harwich . |
| 19 | It has now transpired that this money can not be guaranteed , and the estate may be sold instead to a private buyer . |
| 20 | Several grounds have been suggested for holding that this Act can not be repealed . |
| 21 | The existence of other cases where this connection apparently can not be made , as pointed out by Jespersen , indicates however that this sense can not be taken as descriptive of the full potential for meaning which to has in contemporary English . |
| 22 | Often the individual has done such a good job of ‘ forgetting ’ that this recall can only be achieved by means of regression . |
| 23 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 24 | In recognising that fact , as well as the reality that this package can not be amended or the entire community ratification process goes back into the melting pot , it was the pressure point likely to offer the greatest temptation to the Tory anti-Maastricht brigade . |
| 25 | However , it seems likely that this burden can not be lightened without forcing too much of the decision-making task onto the focusing component of a system , with consequences such as those we saw earlier . |
| 26 | There was agreement that people should play an active , participatory , democratic role through community business in the regeneration of their own areas , and that this process can best be facilitated , as in Strathclyde , by supportive and sympathetic local government attitudes and action . |
| 27 | It should be noted that this exemption can not be used if our client is itself an authorised person . |
| 28 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 29 | Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin ; Tolkien rejected it on the grounds that public virtue can not be mechanised or formulated . |
| 30 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |