Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] that [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only suppose that my name had respectable associations , and he thought it might allay criticism in what might be called Athenaeum circles . |
| 2 | It is not like me to lack perception and I can only suppose that my enthusiasm overruled my common sense . |
| 3 | They can only suggest that their involvement may be due to such personal circumstances as geographical proximity to ‘ rougher ’ areas , conflict with parents or school authorities or an opportunity to act out racist tendencies . |
| 4 | The annual report of the Scottish Prison Officers ' Association — published today — attacks senior management and declares : ‘ We can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Given senior management 's reluctance to identify the role of area directors , we can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service . |
| 6 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 7 | One can only assume that your club committee have the welfare of both the fishery and your fish at heart which we should not knock . |
| 8 | I can only hope that his kind of electioneering cynicism will fail abysmally and by the time National Music Day comes round next year , Tim Renton will have left office too . |
| 9 | A second ploy used by buyers is the ‘ sell cheap , the future looks bright ’ technique : ‘ We can not pretend that our offer meets you on price , but the real pay-off for you will come in terms of future sales . ’ |
| 10 | Parents ' giving in to avoid a fight reinforces the child 's difficult behaviour next time this same situation occurs and can also be dangerous : 2-year-olds do n't forget and so parents can not hope that their child will not remember their giving in . |
| 11 | ‘ My lord — ’ she said at length ‘ — I can not believe that my lord of Gloucester , being your uncle and the acknowledged protector of the realm , intends aught else than to rule in your name until you are of age . |
| 12 | Whilst it is not inconsistent for liberals to hold a theory of distributive justice , for in a sense any advocacy of the free market implies certain distributive consequences , the ‘ harm to interests ’ theorists can not deny that their theory of obligation rests entirely upon a cryptic theory of distributive justice rather than an extrapolation of fundamental precepts of liberalism . |
| 13 | I can not deny that your condition , given its rarity among women , is of interest to me . |
| 14 | Bruch contrasts this fortunate majority with both the anorexic and the obese person , neither of whom knows how to gauge the state of her own stomach or assess what is a reasonable requirement of food for her own bodily needs.9 The obese person can not recognise that her stomach is full , nor the anorexic that hers is empty . |
| 15 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 16 | Although we can not guarantee that your requirement will be met , we will certainly pass on your requests to the Hotel concerned , and make every effort to satisfy your requirements . |
| 17 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 18 | If we accept that science is objective , then it is more difficult to challenge its practice in modern society ; the scientist can always argue that his work is morally neutral . |
| 19 | I wrote : ‘ Darling John , I can hardly believe that your birthday is here again and you 're still not home . |
| 20 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |
| 21 | I took my parents when I , my son was two and a half , and I can honestly say that my son , I was n't able to devote as much time as I would have wanted to give . |
| 22 | We work well together , I respect him as a professional , I can laugh at his jokes and I can even accept that his genius probably entitles him to live by a set of standards most of us do n't even recognise as standards — but that 's it ! ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps , when people have expressed negative views of Dustin 's behaviour and personality , we can charitably assume that his Döppelgänger , Harvey Pepper , has been at work again . |
| 24 | Erm they can then feel that their family 's being looked after as well , so it helps them not to worry about that side of it . |
| 25 | Those parents helping in school can sometimes feel that their goodwill is being abused and that they are little more than washers of paint pots and menders of broken books . |
| 26 | After holding an executive meeting on June 8 we can again announce that our position on this matter has not changed . ’ |
| 27 | I can however say that their conclusion with regard to the two other ponds at Skelton , which are mentioned in Ryedale policy E N V Eleven , that is to say the ponds near Wrights Manufactory and er that near the Barratt development , are apparently not found erm suitable er by the Great Crested Newt , and are inhabited largely by mallard . |
| 28 | Only that intelligent people can surely accept that a man who has a job like mine can accidentally forget that his wife is giving a dinner party without immediately assuming his lapse is due to lack of concern for her . ’ |
| 29 | As the pitch patterns were presumably dictated by Elgar 's ‘ secret ’ melody , we can safely assume that his invention , and indeed the beauty of his creation , lay almost entirely in his construction . |