Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We can justifiably expect that academics will adhere to the demands of rationality in their professional work , developing the open character of their discipline .
2 So to summarize that in terms of a of of a kinetic diagram , we can basically write that channels exist in closed and open states .
3 I can only record that prisoners and prison staff displayed a rare unanimity in condemning the present system .
4 I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless .
5 We can only hope that materials designers will be able to rise to the Challenge and that teachers will recognise the role it can play in learning outside the classroom .
6 Now we can only hope that things are resolved quickly enough for the developments to be finished in time for the 1994 Open . ’
7 One can only hope that policy-makers ( and knee-jerk media pundits ) will take to the trouble to read beyond the title .
8 The signification is private to the user , and he can only hope that resemblances in his own experience have their counterpart in the experience of others , so that they can attach a meaning of their own to what he says .
9 I can only surmise that comapnies buying holidays abroad could be in difficulty because of currency fluctuations .
10 Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology .
11 Equally , the firms can not ensure that decisions will be made according to what they see as appropriate criteria unless those criteria are built into the decision process .
12 And , certainly , we can not assume that processes in writing are unvarying .
13 The negative claim insists that a judge may not appeal to the law 's warrant for his decision when he can not show that conventions force him to do what he does , because the ideal is corrupted by any suggestion that past political decisions can yield rights and duties other than those dictated by convention .
14 Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later .
15 Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them .
16 It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources .
17 Although the University will do its best to avoid increases in fees , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of your course .
18 All fees are subject to annual review and although the University will do its best to avoid large increases , it can not guarantee that fees will be maintained at the same level for the duration of a student 's course .
19 I can not agree that women are the inferior of men .
20 Although a ‘ mature ’ lady , I am a supporter of ‘ save the terrace ’ and can not agree that seats are necessary — fans will stand up most of the time anyway , as we did last Sunday , and seats are more of a hazard when leaning over to see what is happening on the pitch .
21 Mr Clarke said later that no decision had been taken to do away with the pay formula , but he added : ‘ However I can not agree that firefighters should be an exception to the Government 's policy that in the current pay round the rises of all public sector employees should not exceed 1.5 per cent and that there could not be any catching up settlement thereafter . ’
22 In the cotton towns , you can already see that power-looms are creating a new category of human being , the town labourer .
23 Here we can just note that limitations of expression and vocabulary can give the impression of naivety , just as sophistication in language can hide naivety in thought .
24 ‘ Those who sit back in politics can quickly find that others have moved on .
25 If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts .
26 Therefore we can probably conclude that conditions ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) or some close equivalent , are in fact necessary .
27 Our product support team can also ensure that microscopes are properly installed and the user fully familiarised with its operation .
28 it can also accept that individuals are the unwitting servants of this process ; for Marxists , human actors are the carriers of the structural requirements of the capitalist system .
29 Also , we can often see that children can use concepts that they can not yet express in English .
30 If farmers can legally insist that locomotives are spark-free , they can sell this right to the railway .
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