Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 2 | But if it can be proven that overfishing of sand-eel is the principal cause of the problem , we can only hope that remedial action can be taken before it is too late for our important sea-bird colonies to recover . |
| 3 | The Bishop believes in evolution , but can not believe that natural selection is an adequate explanation for the course that evolution has taken ( partly because , like many others , he sadly misunderstands natural selection to be " random " and " meaningless ' ) . |
| 4 | So one can not say that grapheme-phoneme conversion is the way non-words are read aloud . |
| 5 | Even as this story is being written , in the 1980s , one man can still remember that far-off funeral of 1905 , though he was only five at the time : |
| 6 | We can usually show that social organization correlates closely with a species ecology yet we are often far from clear about the processes by which this association has come about . |
| 7 | Sir : I am writing first to congratulate you all on an excellent magazine , I have been reading Computer magazines for the last 10 years and can honestly say that Practical PC is the most informative and enjoyable one to date . |
| 8 | Malcolmson ( 1984 : 126 ) argues that ‘ an essential feature of the world Williamson is interested in [ … ] is not one in which one can simply assume that economic efficiency will win out in the end ’ . |