Example sentences of "can [adv] show that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 2 | And although Siegel 's results demonstrate convincingly that response strategies can indeed transfer from one discrimination to another , they can not show that such strategies are the sole source of the transfer effects seen in his experiment . |
| 3 | In other words , if a shopkeeper can not show that he took every reasonable step to satisfy himself about the age of the person buying cigarettes or any other tobacco product , he has committed an offence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We can usually show that social organization correlates closely with a species ecology yet we are often far from clear about the processes by which this association has come about . |
| 7 | Since demonstrative pronouns typically involve a gesture , it seems easy to assimilate such acts of reference to general theories of action ; if one can then show that other kinds of referring expression are related to demonstratives , the case for viewing reference in general as a species of action is made plausible . |
| 8 | We , if you comes and gives evidence against us , then we can either show that he 's incorrect in a substantive way , or we can attack his credibility . |