Example sentences of "[is] [that] [pers pn] can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important thing is that we can influence it through aerobic exercise . |
| 2 | The point is that we can compute out of sequences of utterances , taken together with background assumptions about language usage , highly detailed inferences about the nature of the assumptions participants are making , and the purposes for which utterances are being used . |
| 3 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 4 | Now a very important issue in relation to conforming with requirements is that we can go over the top , we can go O T T as we say . |
| 5 | The thing is that we can design a string , try it out and decide we like it , but Norman can actually take pictures of that sound so we can file it , compare it with the results from other strings and start to understand why we like that particular one . |
| 6 | The fascinating thing is that we can construct a complete family tree of all the globin genes , and even put dates on all the divergence points ( delta and beta globin parted company , for example , about 40 million years ago ; epsilon and gamma globins 100 million years ago ) . |
| 7 | The main point is that we can do nothing to change matters . |
| 8 | This should make all those involved with mathematics education question what it is that we can do to enhance and develop these talents . |
| 9 | Erm , our belief is that we can manage erm , in line with our , our practice , and give up that forty thousand pounds , but it is , it 's reducing your flexibility as , as a number of these changes effectively do . |
| 10 | But no , our belief is that we can manage . |
| 11 | So it is that we can apply to research of different disciplinary provenance general criteria of appraisal approved by the wider culture of intellectual enquiry . |
| 12 | In this novel , he argues , the particular pattern of frequencies sets up its own expectancies , and the consequence is that we can generalize beyond the text , and judge whether a particular non-occurring sentence would be appropriate to its " language " or not . |
| 13 | But what we can say is that we can select out from the group of solid tumours the ones that do badly . |
| 14 | ‘ There will not be any rights issues and my dream is that we can take a 20 per cent share in advertising markets abroad . |
| 15 | Of course , being in the same profession may increase a sense of rivalry between you — but what 's good about friendship is that we can take a little of this . |
| 16 | ‘ The great thing about this boat is that we can take it out in all kinds of weather throughout the year , and everyone will be perfectly safe on board . |
| 17 | ‘ The great thing about this boat is that we can take it out in all kinds of weather throughout the year , and everyone will be perfectly safe on board . |
| 18 | The conclusion to this part of the argument is that we can calculate our way into regions of miraculous improbability far greater than we can imagine as plausible . |
| 19 | The result is that we can provide them with the tools needed to design more efficient heat transfer equipment . ’ |
| 20 | One of the great advantages of this method of proceeding is that we can guarantee a debate about Scottish questions . |
| 21 | Because if he is that we can get that as an educational presentation . |
| 22 | As far as engineering applications are concerned the most remarkable feature of the curve is that we can get a flux density even in the absence of all external agents . |
| 23 | One of the advantages of being a vet is that we can get out of almost anything by pleading an emergency . |
| 24 | A central argument of this chapter is that we can gain much by rereading and reinterpreting old , now relatively unfashionable , forms of sociology . |
| 25 | Now , do n't be horrified , this is the whole point of these formica benches is that we can work directly on to them . |
| 26 | One implication of the neutral theory is that we can use molecular changes as a kind of clock to measure evolutionary events . |
| 27 | Another strength of using proprietary relational database technology is that we can use many report writers which are available to access that database , not only the accounting data but potentially all of the corporate data to pull out not only accounting reports but reports which combine information as necessary , partly from the accounting system , partly from the sales order processing system , partly from the inventory system , whatever they may be . |
| 28 | We take any four boys , and we concentrate on providing them with first-class , intensive training , and my contention is that we can produce a team in every way as competitive as Greycoats ' . ’ |
| 29 | The answer is that we can gamble on their occurrence and their nature by so arranging matters that we might profit from them . |
| 30 | ‘ The big difference in the League of Ireland is that we can train on Saturdays as well as two nights a week — because our matches are played on Sunday . |