Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local inspectors , on the other hand , can rightly argue that this is their great strength . |
| 2 | I can only assume that this continuing violence to musical instruments is being pursued in the interests of ‘ entertaining ’ the majority of the audience ( who are non-musicians ) . |
| 3 | One can only assume that this puppy 's there so Olympic hosts Spain at least get a sniff at a medal . |
| 4 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 5 | One can only assume that this is another example of the popular press indulging in unwarranted smears , this time against the Mission Impossible Party of Labour and the loyal supporters of Darlington FC . |
| 6 | Moreover , by choosing an option that has been shown to be the best in terms of quality of life days gained general practitioners would be more certain that they were acting with beneficence ; at present , using simply their ‘ unaided intuitive judgment ’ to make such decisions , they can only hope that this is the case . |
| 7 | The defended sites in Britain have to be studied in detail against this development and I can only hope that this short contribution may help to inspire more thought and action along these lines of research . |
| 8 | We can only hope that this issue 's reviewer , senior analyst/programmer , will be able to truly speak for the people . |
| 9 | So one can only surmise that this rather authoritarian sign is aimed at people whose knuckles scrape the tarmac . |
| 10 | One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches . |
| 11 | In another letter to a Scottish admirer , she said ‘ I can only say that this bubble of my mind has risen on the mighty stream of a Divine purpose ’ . |
| 12 | I can only volunteer that this is done by designers who have an imperfect understanding of the nature and properties of wood , or who are literally prepared to risk it . |
| 13 | I can not think that this is right . |
| 14 | But we can not assume that this is always the case . |
| 15 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 16 | In this book , I describe and explain these activities and although I can not claim that this is a comprehensive guide to parties — such a task would be virtually impossible ! — I do know that , if you follow my advice , your children and their friends will have a really enjoyable time ! |
| 17 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 18 | I can not doubt that this peculiar method which gave such valuable results in water-colour , influenced Cézanne to apply it at least to the early stages of his oil paintings , and that gradually it grew to be his habitual practice in the succeeding period . |
| 19 | With modern technology , I can not accept that this standard is out of reach . |
| 20 | Thus , although I recognise that the most striking feature of the events in suit is , from the point of view of a criminal lawyer , that they happened after charge , I can not accept that this is the only perspective in which they should be viewed . |
| 21 | One can not establish that this is the case in one case without establishing that it is the case in all like cases . |
| 22 | We can not imagine that this inevitable development is what IBM sought when it hid its mainframe price list . |
| 23 | But yet we can not say that this notional world of human scientific description is the more fundamental physical reality to which all creatures relate . |
| 24 | After complaining they had focused too much on the warring Wales ' angle , the official was challenged : ‘ Surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Eventually I said angrily that ‘ surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 26 | I can not see that this represents a temporary disillusionment : see the discussion of the religious aspects of the poem in Chapter 3 ( p. 91 ) . |
| 27 | One might have suspected them of being adverbs that simply lacked the ordinary morphological marking , as in : ( 12 ) Grandmother took the corner too fast However , one can conclusively show that this is not so by finding examples where the predicate qualifiers fill a position which can also be occupied by a true adverb ; here we observe that the effect is strikingly different . |
| 28 | Without undervaluing the private sphere itself , we can still say that this arrangement works to the advantage of men . |
| 29 | I can hardly believe that this is the same company that produced the excellent Ami Pro manuals . |
| 30 | I usually look forward to Family Day , but I can honestly say that this year I 'm beginning to dread it , ’ said Rachel , then , picking up a pile of records , she said , ‘ This wo n't do , we must get on , otherwise we 'll never finish these medicals . ’ |