Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 It is the Spirit who takes the things of God and reveals them to us ( 1 Cor. 2:12 ) , and Paul can rightly say that the very capacity to respond in faith is a gift of God and no man-made attribute of which we can boast ( Eph. 2:8 ) .
2 But in fact we know of existing animals with a whole range of light-sensitive organs , from those which can merely detect whether the animal is in the light or the dark , through organs capable of detecting the direction of the incident light , up to proper image-forming eyes .
3 Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years .
4 One can only conclude that the story about the two-way radios is entirely false .
5 Well , we have our own gifts , but the presentation of food is not one of them , and since French cooks and food purveyors so often appear to lose the lightness of their touch in this respect when they leave their native land and settle abroad , one can only conclude that the special stimulant which brings these gifts into flower is in the air of France itself .
6 At type II promoters we can only conclude that the precise nature of the interactions between CRP and the truncated and wild-type polymerases , and their role in the activation mechanism , remain to be determined but that the C-terminal part of the α-subunit of RNA polymerase is not involved in this process .
7 One can only conclude that the bare and to infinitives are anything but meaningless contextual variants .
8 Such a possibility can only arise if the impulsive components of the matter tensor occurring on the boundary of region IV have negative energy density .
9 Secondly , that liability to pay can only arise if the company goes into liquidation .
10 This effect can only arise if the nonword " are being transformed into a phonological code before lexical access is attempted .
11 Security means defence against all comers and contingencies ; as such , it can only materialise when the world is purged of uncertainty .
12 They give the appearance of a ‘ setting sun ’ under the D string and , as everything else appears to line up okay , I can only presume that the markers themselves are off-centre .
13 The crypts were small , too small to have needed a central pillar to support the ceiling , so we can only presume that the pillar had a symbolic significance to the Minoans ( Plate 18 ) .
14 The commitment of such a large organisation can only ensure that the levels of excellence will always remain outstanding .
15 One can only suppose that the smiths at Igbo Ukwu enjoyed demonstrating their virtuosity .
16 I can only suggest that the feathers you had gained for your hat , or your head , during your 10 months in America , should be collected then stuck up your tochas .
17 In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted .
18 One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result .
19 We are unable to explain why vitamin B12 absorption decreased during treatment with loperamide oxide , but can only comment that the magnitude of the change was relatively small .
20 Equally important is public confidence or acceptance of coinage ; as coinage is a convention , in the sense that its value is conventionally fixed by the authority of the state with the agreement of the public , it can only function if the value of the coinage , as fixed by the state , is accepted by those who use it ; otherwise , market forces will tend to discount overvalued coins towards their individual bullion values .
21 As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ .
22 Supporting players in the lineout can only move when the jumper has touched or caught the ball .
23 This programme can only succeed if the public are able to understand what is being done with their money , and why , and are encouraged to work with the landowners concerned so that the most practical and cost- efficient results are obtained .
24 He was never told why he lost his captaincy and I can only think that the committee felt that a more adventurous approach was needed .
25 I can only think that the teacher wanted to get as much mileage from the whole thing as she could .
26 One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about .
27 One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble .
28 One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity .
29 One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect .
30 Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria .
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