Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves helping pupils so to develop skills of reflective thinking that they can be generously affirming of others without losing their own footing . |
| 2 | What marks out Pascal is his refusal of the illusion that we can be merely rational , while yet insisting that reasoning be pushed to its limits . |
| 3 | This is because such inferences often arise wherever features of the context do not actually block them , with the result that they can be easily confused with the permanent aspects of the semantics of the expressions involved . |
| 4 | In both cases Nizan is carefully detached from any real ideological involvement in the party , with the result that he can be conveniently presented as a precursor of a non-communist New Left , in opposition either strategically or naively to the totalitarian oppression of the party itself . |
| 5 | There is no doubt in my mind that I can be the player I was before I got injured . |
| 6 | Mick , the National Officer has been er , the link between these organizations and I hope that the er , Professional erm , Boxers ' Association will give some credit to the G M B in erm , establishing themselves and we hope , as an organization , that in the future that they can be successful and we can be sure they will be because they 've not only got the likes of Barry but they 've got many other , prominent er , boxers who will , I 'm sure , establish erm , the Association in a very er , positive fashion . |
| 7 | It is only if the interests of the child render it appropriate that the courts of [ England ] rather than [ Australia ] shall determine its future that there can be any exception to an order for its return . |
| 8 | It is only if the interests of the child render it appropriate that the courts of country B rather than country A shall determine its future that there can be any exception to an order for its return . |
| 9 | its , it 's , it 's the same Saturdays and Sundays , I ca n't get him out of the house and yet soon as we get there we have friends and family and they say , keep saying come on , come up and see us , I went up in the mini on me own one day and spent a couple of days with her , but , it , it ai n't the same when you go on your own , I dare n't go too far in my mini because it 's , it 's erm , it 's not a car that you can be hundred per cent sure of it , I mean as soon as it rains it stops anyway , we went out in it today and there 's all water in the front of the , in the front , but |
| 10 | It is only when a glimpse of brown forest is seen through the snow that one can be sure that the coast has been crossed . |
| 11 | This new album , in particular , is so imbued with the loss of an ebbing innocence that it can be hard to believe they were written by another person . |
| 12 | It has the disadvantage that it can be used only in closed systems , not in flows where fluid is continuously entering and leaving . |
| 13 | So we might add to the tripartite analysis the fourth condition that nothing can be known which is inferred from a false belief , or from a group of beliefs of which one is false . |
| 14 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 15 | It is of the very nature of the case that there can be no proof of this . |
| 16 | They have the advantage that they can be calculated for most countries in the world . |
| 17 | Such materials have the advantage that they can be made permanently hard by heating them to a temperature around 15°C , for which reason polymers with this sort of constitution are called ‘ thermosetting ’ . |
| 18 | Environmental manipulations have the considerable advantage that they can be used in wild populations , and they are also relatively quick . |
| 19 | The same effect can be achieved with a small pair of school compasses ( which have the advantage that they can be adjusted to exactly the right size ) , but these are more difficult to use to get an exact line . |
| 20 | Matrices have the advantage that they can be added together and multiplied by scalar quantities ; further the concepts of determinant and trace are available to aid computation . |
| 21 | We will discuss here two different methods which have the advantage that they can be combined into a more comprehensive system . |
| 22 | Solid state transducers have the important advantage that they can be used in the ambulatory patient and are becoming readily available . |
| 23 | This has the big advantage that it can be put into place by just one person . |
| 24 | The primary–secondary continuum has the advantage that it can be managed by people who are at home with schoolteachers , parents and families . |
| 25 | They steer people away from any home which they believe is likely to be closed and once you start doing this , you will in fact be sealing the fate of those homes and you it 's a very , very dangerous game , you 've got ta be , you 've got ta play it very , very carefully indeed and I hope Chairman that there can be a degree of common sense and rationality introduced into discussions between the members of the various groups who have to deal with these very difficult issues . |
| 26 | If nothing is agreed about notice , the common law implies a term into the contract that it can be brought to an end if ‘ reasonable notice ’ is given . |
| 27 | ‘ From my point of view , prescription charges have now reached such a level that they can be properly described as a health tax , ’ he said . |
| 28 | When thinking how to act , I am in the world of common sense where something either is or is not , and where it is a matter of course that I can be in touch with it through highly subjective impressions . |
| 29 | So many people admire his work that he can be quite careless of the few who do n't . |
| 30 | The overall economic objective of a production department in the chemical industry is to produce chemicals of sufficient quality and in sufficient quantity that they can be sold at a profit . |