Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 2 | The Government 's main role is to ensure a sound and stable economic framework within which enterprise can flourish and the battle against inflation can be won . |
| 3 | There is an immense difference between the political systems of fascism and of liberal democracy , either of which may exist in a capitalist society ; and no one can doubt that the history of the world would have been very different if the fascist powers had been victorious in the Second World War . |
| 4 | Unfortunately there are no German records in existence ( perhaps something may now turn up after the reunification ! ) but we can assume that the result of the raid fell short of causing significant damage to the German war machine . |
| 5 | This reduces to , Hence , by defining N ( d 1 ) as the reciprocal of the hedge ratio we can ensure that the value of the hedged portfolio does not change during the next time period . |
| 6 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 7 | The press may publish details of " spent " convictions , and if sued may successfully plead justification or fair comment , unless the plaintiff can show that the publication of this particular truth has been actuated by malice . |
| 8 | Then we can show that the relationship between the quantity of base money in existence and the outstanding money supply depends numerically upon the magnitude of the ratios and . |
| 9 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 10 | I can confirm that the appointment of a commissioner to monitor procedures at Castlereagh , and the two other police holding centres where terrorist suspects are interviewed , is under consideration . |
| 11 | Companies can choose whether the figure of profit that will determine the PRP is to be taken before or after tax , goodwill , interest receivable , interest payable , research and development , and other items . |
| 12 | but now we can acknowledge that the advance in South Africa 's cricket prospects is as much in their debt as it is to the current leaders who have united South African cricket and allowed it , for the first time in two centuries , to look forward to drawing on all the resources of the nation 's youth regardless of race , colour or creed . |
| 13 | Perhaps you can foretell when the end of the Earth will be ? ’ |
| 14 | I can understand that the reasoning behind this deviation is wholly fashion-based . |
| 15 | As most of the time taken is used up in searching through the various models the speed of the system will be a trade-off between the range of speakers it can understand and the number of words in the vocabulary . |
| 16 | We can claim that the theology of the Cross forces us now to talk of God in very different ways . |
| 17 | Given these kind of records , it is perhaps not too surprising that Blondel can claim that the implementation of party programmes is " spasmodic and half-hearted " and that the influence of programmes on policy-making is " rather weak " . |
| 18 | Lastly , the matter may now be dealt with by statute as the Secretary of State can pass regulations requiring notice to be given to the Registrar of events which affect the nature of the security under a floating charge and can provide that the happening of such events shall be ineffective until the prescribed particulars have been delivered . |
| 19 | Looking back I can see that the fall of the tree and the resulting fear were symbolising my anxiety lest the squire should come and catch us raiding his walnut tree . |
| 20 | Anyone can see that the breaching of the Berlin Wall is a great symbolic event as well as an actual one . |
| 21 | But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms . |
| 22 | The shoes can now be taken off in either order , or we can see that the order of putting them on makes no difference , that is , RL = LR , or R and L commute . |
| 23 | In Table 3.3 we can see that the ratio of banks ' holdings of ‘ base money ’ to total assets/liabilities is rather less than 1 per cent . |
| 24 | Erm I think you can see that the problem with this kind of biographical approach to history is it can degenerate into trivia . |
| 25 | As the recession 's gone on through the eighties and enters the nineties , we can see that the number of single households , households with just one person , is increasing rapidly . |
| 26 | We can see that the quality of education students are getting is deteriorating . |
| 27 | From this we can see that the effect of the corporation tax on employment operates in three ways : |
| 28 | ( 9–26 ) we can see that the coefficient of variation of consumption would be decreased ( in the case , B = 0 ) . |
| 29 | One can see that the task of interpreting will share similarities in its processes no matter which languages are being used . |
| 30 | Referring back to Section 1.1 , we can see that the space–time of SR is pseudo-Euclidean , which indicates the reason for our interest in such spaces . |