Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [vb infin] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All students who graduate from the Buckinghamshire College from 1993 onwards will receive Brunel University degrees — nobody can deny that this is n't going to look good on the CV ! |
| 2 | If that nice middle-class boy , Muhammad Ali , is truly The Greatest , then nobody can argue that social deprivation is a necessity for ring greatness . |
| 3 | One can assume that all the nationalists preferred O'Neill but even eighty-four per cent of those who called themselves unionists were opposed to Paisley . |
| 4 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 5 | In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space , one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter . |
| 6 | One can show that this increase in disorder is always greater than the increase in the order of the memory itself . |
| 7 | One can speculate that this boy might some day join one of the rebellious students who fight the establishment in an astonishingly infantile way , expecting at the same time not to be punished and to be granted full amnesty for their transgressions , just as a small child would expect from an indulgent parent . |
| 8 | No one can pretend that this is a comfortable option . |
| 9 | No one can remove that personal responsibility from you , and if you do not discharge it ( through fear of a powerful chairman , or personal ambition , or even seeking an easy life ) , you should not have accepted the job in the first place . |
| 10 | One can see that ancient story is used very differently in The Lord of the Rings from the way it is in , say , James Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 11 | I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others . |
| 12 | With hindsight one can see that this was a CD crying out to be made ; four of Villa-Lobo 's magnificent nature pieces make obvious companions . |
| 13 | No one can doubt that present-day societies have been shaped above all by the massive explosion of human productive powers , in the particular forms that this phenomenon has taken . |
| 14 | If the book does less than justice to large , complex organisms one can argue that sub specie aeternitatis the authors may have got it about right ! |
| 15 | No one can deny that millions are made to suffer and die each year in laboratories all over the world . |
| 16 | No one can deny that professional tennis is going through one of those periods when a sure thing in the betting sense is a short cut to bankruptcy . |
| 17 | One can agree that another has or should have a right , that is , believe that he has or should have it , or agree to give him a right . |
| 18 | well , here , I think it fitted in , I think it was this way , it 's a little bit difficult to see from the decision itself , erm this do , when these were notified there were provisions in it for example in relation to admission and expulsion , which the commission objected to and erm , I think one can summarize that this must of happen , the commission said to the marketing question if you do n't remove this restriction or if you do n't erm eradicate what we see as the arbitrary element of |
| 19 | Thus , in front of a still life by Chardin or Courbet , for example , one can say that one object must be separated from another behind it by so many inches , and so on . |
| 20 | Briefly , one can say that each stanza is in eight lines , rhyming abac/babc ; and that the fourth and eighth lines at once interrupt the flow of each stanza and hold the two halves together by their strong ‘ feminine ’ three-syllable rhymes , on ‘ glimmering/shimmering ’ , ‘ sorrowing/following ’ , etc . |
| 21 | Put even more succinctly , one can say that those who ignore Freud 's Totem and Taboo — not to mention the polytraumatic theory which is being developed from it — and deny that there is any kind of archaic heritage , be it innate or acquired , commit the elementary methodological error of imagining that in every generation human psychology comes from nowhere and that the modern individual is not the product and recapitulator of the archaic past . |
| 22 | Anyone can see that artificial keyboard or lexigram languages can be imparted , if at all , in only the most impoverished social situations — quite unlike the nexus of warm and intimate physical bonds that probably prevailed at the dawn of language millennia ago . |
| 23 | Since everyone can foresee that this will occur , few resources will be devoted to searching for inventions , even though they are socially valuable . |
| 24 | No-one can say that such a flood or a greater one may not recur next month , next year or next decade . |