Example sentences of "can [vb infin] that [art] [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 | Both Fanny and Henry enjoy literature so therefore we can predict that a marriage between them would not have been a total disaster . |
| 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 | Does he agree that , as we approach the Christmas season , it would be appropriate to have a homeless children 's Christmas bonus , perhaps of £10 a week , and then longer-term arrangements through supplement for income support , so that we can guarantee that every child in bed-and-breakfast accommodation can have a hot meal every day ? |
| 5 | We can expect that a change of context after prolonged training would produce an actual increase in the magnitude of the observed CR . |
| 6 | We need to ask whether the effects of hypnosis upon human thought processes , on reasoning and memory , are really understood ; whether we can assume that a person under hypnosis truly remembers actual events . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the authority can show that a lack of sufficiently qualified staff is due to overall financial problems , then an action would be unlikely to succeed . |
| 10 | Also we can show that a change in the supply of base will cause a predictable change in the money supply , also dependent in size upon these magnitudes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I can understand that the reasoning behind this deviation is wholly fashion-based . |
| 17 | We can claim that the theology of the Cross forces us now to talk of God in very different ways . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If we now look at the curve which shows the freon ratios in surface water and look for a ratio of two , and lining this up with the nought degree curve because we 're working with Antarctic water which of course is very cold , we can see that a ratio of two corresponds to the year nineteen fifty nine . |
| 21 | I mean I can see that a lot of people I mean I think that we should thank our men and women who were in the Gulf , of course we should , erm I 'm questioning only the way that we 've chosen to do it , by a victory parade . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Anyone can see that the breaching of the Berlin Wall is a great symbolic event as well as an actual one . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Erm I think you can see that the problem with this kind of biographical approach to history is it can degenerate into trivia . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We can see that the quality of education students are getting is deteriorating . |
| 30 | From this we can see that the effect of the corporation tax on employment operates in three ways : |