Example sentences of "can [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We believe that it is right to have a minimum deterrent so that no potential aggressor can think that this country could be attacked and that they could be unaffected by any retaliation . |
| 2 | We can locate that earlier discussion within the context of power by arguing that membership of such groups can confer power upon individuals , particularly if that group has status and prestige . |
| 3 | Later versions of Bacon can recognise that each star has an intrinsic property which manifests itself as this ’ constant ’ . |
| 4 | They will now be available to any company which can demonstrate that new sidings would reduce lorry traffic on virtually any trunk road . |
| 5 | ‘ We are committed to retaining the nuclear option for the future , provided the industry can demonstrate that nuclear generation is economic and provided it can meet rigorous standards of safety and environmental protection . ’ |
| 6 | In GCSE , assuming the existing pattern continues , we can predict that more boys than girls will be entered at the top level , and proportionally more boys will gain grade A. |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you wish , you can consider that each node corresponds to a cluster of inputs . |
| 9 | Thus , if we assume a simple deterministic relationship between the social and religious orders ( as anthropologists all too often do ) , we can expect that Nuer religion similarly extends , as it were into the skies , its own secular lineage structure . |
| 10 | If buckets large enough to hold several records are used , we can expect that these buckets will be more evenly filled than individual records fill single addresses ; this can be examined using the Poisson distribution . |
| 11 | That may cause practical problems in detecting the consequences , but this is a thought experiment after all , and we can assume that technical ingenuity will prove equal to the task of providing adequate amplification of the signal . |
| 12 | We know that he himself referred to the daunting shadow of Beethoven 's greatness — and we can assume that public expectation was just as daunting , given that he was regarded as Beethoven 's heir . |
| 13 | Fewer than one in ten of LEAs in England and Wales have conducted thorough language surveys , which means that we can assume that most schools still have less than adequate knowledge about the languages and dialects known to their pupils . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Together , we can ensure that general SVQs and Skillstart are as responsive as possible to the needs of our customers — relevant , coherent , and practicable . |
| 16 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 17 | Professional advisers who are members of drug and therapeutic committees can ensure that primary care concerns are heard and addressed and that they are informed of any changes in hospital prescribing that affect them . |
| 18 | There should also be a team of European inspectors who can ensure that such legislation is effective . |
| 19 | This draft response indicates which DTAC responses he has taken into account , and any member whose DTAC 's response has arrived late or has been omitted for some other reason can ensure that relevant points are not missed . |
| 20 | It can ensure that this sum is available when required by exchanging sterling today , when the contracts were entered into , at today 's spot rate . |
| 21 | By setting γ 2 equal to - 1 the government can ensure that next period 's price level is immune to current shocks . |
| 22 | The verbal expression of a maxim will be something like : ‘ In circumstances of such and such a sort I shall act thus ’ , and I act immorally unless I can will that all agents should guide their behaviour by a corresponding maxim directed at themselves . |
| 23 | But extending the notion of the variable to syntax suggests that we can show that syntactic variants are semantically equivalent in much the same way . |
| 24 | Even if we can show that this mapping occurs , it is not a complete answer , since we then need a theory of how operations conducted at the neural level translate into behavioural subprocesses . |
| 25 | One can show that this increase in disorder is always greater than the increase in the order of the memory itself . |
| 26 | ‘ If we can expose their dependence on feminizing women , ’ she says , we can show that this world system is also dependent on artificial notions of masculinity : this seemingly overwhelming world system may be more fragile and open to radical change than we have been led to imagine . |
| 27 | I can confirm that that story in The Sunday Telegraph is wrong . |
| 28 | Yes , I can confirm that that review showed that there was a clear need for section 4 support in Scotland . |
| 29 | I can confirm that 486 vehicles for new Networker trains are being manufactured at a total cost of £365 million and that the first of those trains will come into service on my hon. Friend 's line in May this year . |
| 30 | Following her 1991 appearances at Nottingham , Wimbledon and the Midland Bank Championships at Brighton at the end of last year , we can confirm that Steffi Graf is the most popular of all the foreign players , according to Tennis World readers . |