Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] that he [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the only letter which survives written by William Springett , one can only conclude that he was a rather unpleasant man . |
| 2 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 3 | ‘ I can only say that he was a very clever man . |
| 4 | He can not accept that he was created by God because this would prove that his power lies in his enemy 's hands and it would be ludicrous to revolt for he would ultimately be revolting against himself . |
| 5 | The learner can not argue that he was being correctly supervised by someone standing on the footpath or in radio contact with him etc . |
| 6 | One can therefore presume that he was not looking at the landscape as scenery but as habitat . |