Example sentences of "[coord] [that] [pron] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is private property the actions of individuals can not be ‘ shaped at will by another ’ because the individual is able to form a coherent plan of action in the knowledge either that he has control , through ownership , of the material objects necessary to implement it , or that he can enter into enforceable contracts with a range of other people enabling him to have access to those objects . |
| 2 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |
| 3 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 4 | ‘ Secondly , we do not consider that in circumstances such as those alleged in the present case section 2(1) ( b ) has any application ; nor that it can provide the basis for any defence . |
| 5 | We think we know what the teachers need and that we can give it to them . |
| 6 | I do hope that positive arrangements are made to contact me in writing and that we can continue to work together to provide safe working conditions . |
| 7 | And the only true way that we can achieve that and that we can deliver that is by adhering to the emerging industry standards . |
| 8 | I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road . |
| 9 | The important thing is that the Thirty Year Rule is in force and that we can respond to developing perceptions of our times . ’ |
| 10 | They argue that causation involves one event ( the cause ) generating or producing another event ( the effect ) , and that we can obtain direct knowledge about this causal generation : we do not have to infer causality on the basis of temporal priority . |
| 11 | When the movie comes out I want people to know that we 're still around , that the P-Funk lives and that we can act and can still drop it . |
| 12 | Well we cou , we could write to both if necessary I mean they 'd want them to know that we , that our prisoner 's been released and that we can have another one . |
| 13 | Have we any reason to suppose that yet another solution of the problem is to be found , and that we can introduce a precedent so that the native subject races may remain in existence , unfused with ours , and yet in subjection ? |
| 14 | And that we can try and meet some training needs locally . |
| 15 | ‘ I really hope you will be , and that we can become friends . ’ |
| 16 | Erm Hopefully we would be better prepared next time , and that we can get in generators quickly if we do n't already have them on standby . |
| 17 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 18 | The extraordinary thing about the tenor of the right hon. Gentleman 's speech in the past few minutes is that once again he seeks to make out that this is not a very important problem and that we can push it away . |
| 19 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 20 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 21 | One kind is the establishment of joint ventures for exporting : the justification is that they can share the fixed costs , and pool expertise , in penetrating foreign markets , and that they can avoid competing against each other for foreign orders . |
| 22 | One possibility is that they are blind to the spatial properties of the stimuli and that they can distinguish horizontal from vertical only because the two stripe-patterns activate different classes of motion detectors ; that is , detectors of the vertical motion will be stimulated best when a bee approaches or moves past horizontal stripes , whereas the signature of vertical stripes will be a discharge from detectors of horizontal motion . |
| 23 | It 's essential we can move the monitoring team around the site quickly and that they can interpret their findings immediately . |
| 24 | It is important that all patients attending a clinic have confidence in the promised confidentiality , and that they can rest assured that this extends even to family relationships . |
| 25 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 26 | Such bodies are needed to break up centralized power to encourage participation and restore morale to ordinary people by convincing them that they do count , that they are listened to and that they can participate . |
| 27 | The Hargreaves Report ( ILEA 1984 ) showed that schools can achieve a great deal on their own and that they can outweigh parental lack of interest . |
| 28 | He maintains that women are granted the power to illuminate , and that they can use this wisely , even though men may be reluctant to face up to what is revealed : |
| 29 | I can offer an account of what the minimum level to be attained at 16 by 80%-90% of pupils would entail in a few areas of the curriculum … ; in English , pupils would need to demonstrate that they are attentive listeners and confident speakers when dealing with everyday matters of which they have experience , that they can read straightforward written information and pass it on — orally and in written form — without loss of meaning and that they can say clearly what their own views are ; in Mathematics , that they can apply the topics and skills in the foundation list proposed in the Cockcroft Report ; in Science , that they are willing and able to take a practical approach to problems , involving sensible observations and appropriate measurements and can communicate their findings effectively … ; in History , that they possess some historical knowledge and perspective , understand the concepts of cause and consequence , and can compare and extract information from historical evidence and be aware of its limitations ; and in CDT [ craft , design and technology ] , that they can design and make something , using a limited range of materials and calling on a restricted range of concepts and give an account of what they have done and the problems they encountered . |
| 30 | It 's letting people know that their contribution has been appreciated , that their ideas are valued and that they can have their say , whether others agree with the content or not . |