Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | doctor if you do n't agree with what it says , erm , you can obviously mention that to and er er along speedily say in the course of this week , the matter can be mentioned in formal to me , erm one morning at ten o'clock next week I would of thought . |
| 2 | We can only hope that since the incident he has had some serious therapy , both on his flying and on his mental state . |
| 3 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 4 | ‘ I can only hope that in the course of your … investigations the evidence against me is not too incriminating . ’ |
| 5 | I can only guess that by then he had so established himself in my mind as a man who was trying to help women that I was no longer objective . |
| 6 | I can only say that on the evidence of Tesco 's cheapest , the rest will have a hard job keeping up . |
| 7 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 8 | Doctor goes on when one considers her potential life in terms of an academic achievement and marriage with a family , one can only say that without a shadow of doubt she has been devastated and her emotionally devastation will I fear , increase over the years , unquote . |
| 9 | I ca n't imagine I can only say that from my knowledge of Herefordshire as a Herefordian myself , I ca n't imagine for the life of me that there are seven thousand people locally who could remotely afford a thousand pounds per share . |
| 10 | One can only say that in that case there are an awful lot of them — ‘ the pits of Angband seemed to hold store inexhaustible and ever-renewed ’ ( S , p. 157 ) . |
| 11 | I can only say that in dealing with derelict land , providing new jobs and building factories we dwarf anything that the Labour party ever contemplated . |
| 12 | I can only say that in your own experience you must know it 's not that easy to stop loving someone . |
| 13 | Pollini 's technique is legendary , and I can only report that in his fiftieth year ( a large retrospective mid-price boxed set please , DG ! ) , there are still no discernible chinks in the armour ( indeed , a recent Petrushka Three Movements at the RFH would appear to suggest that he is , if anything , playing better than ever ) ! |
| 14 | And , from my experience , I can only believe that in some measure , the courts are guilty of supporting the police in this attitude , for the sake of maintaining a status quo . |
| 15 | The gradient is the tan of the angle , but you can only read that off the graph if you 've got the same units . |
| 16 | But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist . |
| 17 | The notion that they can be judged by Libyan law wherever they are , because they are Libyans by birth and can not alter that by acts of will , seems to underlie the government 's policies of clandestine homicide towards them . |
| 18 | I therefore can not find that in this respect the procedure adopted by the Secretary of State was challengeable in any way . |
| 19 | This was certainly not necessary for the decision of the case ; but though the resolution of the Court of Common Pleas was only a dictum , it seems to me clear that Lord Coke deliberately adopted the dictum , and the great weight of his authority makes it necessary to be cautious before saying that what he deliberately adopted as law was a mistake , and though I can not find that in any subsequent case this dictum has been made the ground of the decision , except in Fitch v. Sutton ( 1804 ) 5 East 230 , as to which I shall make some remarks later , and in Down v. Hatcher ( 1839 ) 10 Ad. & El . |
| 20 | ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him . |
| 21 | I can not say that in an administrative context we shall take up every item that appears in the new clauses , at least not in the way that is implied . |
| 22 | I can honestly say that of the many hundreds of queries I have answered where fish were dead/unwell , probably less than 1% were suffering from disease caused by a pathogen ( causative organism ) , and about 5% from probable organic failure ( tumour , heart failure , and the like ) . |
| 23 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 24 | And er if you can clearly identify that in folk , it 's worth treating very vigorously cos it can make a huge difference . |
| 25 | We can also speculate that at least some ‘ non-negotiable ’ transfers are brought off more rapidly than those which go through the lugubrious procedures maintained by various State bodies and foreign trade organisations . |
| 26 | One can also say that with his third championship he had thrown in the towel . |
| 27 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 28 | ‘ You can really ask that after what happened today ? ’ |
| 29 | Yes , I can now reveal that in a previous life I was the iceberg that sunk the Titanic . |
| 30 | Some officers can now see that at the time they were " typical colonialists " who failed to read the signs of the tinies or entrust positions of authority more readily to African leadership . |