Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] can [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 2 | Even if the defendant himself can plausibly say that he did not intend to use violence , it is sufficient if he uses the language or behaviour in a situation where the addressee is likely to believe that violence will be used against him either by the speaker or by other persons . |
| 3 | Yes well of course you can only assume that what he says is correct . |
| 4 | As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it . |
| 5 | … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface . |
| 6 | Because of the changing moon I can now see that she is completely naked . |
| 7 | At Macmillan College we select only because we are overwhelmed by applications and by selection we can thus ensure that we do have a fully comprehensive intake drawn from all parts of our catchment area . |
| 8 | If we put a gentle shearing force upon the crystal as a whole we can easily apply that little extra strain needed to break the whole line of sorely stretched bonds but we find ( Figure 5b ) that we have merely reformed the whole arrangement one atomic spacing further on . |
| 9 | At one extreme it can mean a particular , rigidly constrained , language dependent structure , while at the other it can simply mean that subroutines or procedures are used . |
| 10 | Well having had chance to peruse the weekend papers and read the various match reports on the game I can only say that the season better end quickly so we can get the scum worshipping out of the way as quickly as possible . |
| 11 | Well having had chance to peruse the weekend papers and read the various match reports on the game I can only say that the season better end quickly so we can get the scum worshipping out of the way as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity , whether he travels or not ; but one of superior talent ( which without impiety I can not deny that I possess ) will go to seed , if he always remains in the same place . |
| 13 | After that little performance you can hardly deny that you want me . |
| 14 | With the best will in the world I can not imagine that a meat man would have the time , or that an un-horsy policeman would risk life and limb to scrub the mud from the hooves of every animal which roughly fits the description of a stolen one . |
| 15 | what this a doctor in this policy would have done in terms of delaying diagnosis in the lower risk group patients because clearly the other groups of patients are actually having more cystoscopies performed , but because it 's a retrospective analysis you can not say that you are advancing the diagnosis of er of more frequently occurring tumours . |
| 16 | By relying on circular symmetry we can further claim that the electric field will have only a radial component which means that |
| 17 | And this is a useful contribution I can not believe that the book jacket blurb was seen by Barry Gale ; it informs us that ‘ In 1859 , when Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species , he had no more evidence in support of his theory than did the creationists … ’ which is a caricature of Gale 's quite unexceptionable thesis . |
| 18 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 19 | In the same way we can now tell that there were two engravers working at the mint of Rome under the Roman Emperor Vespasian . |
| 20 | However , if people challenge the basic principle of utility one can not say that they are mistaken in any kind of factual way , or that they are necessarily irrational . |
| 21 | At this stage I can only say that , as the statutory procedures are being correctly followed in all respects , a public inquiry would not be appropriate . |
| 22 | However , she points out that ‘ from a linguistic point of view we can only say that speech and writing are different : we can not say that one is superior to the other ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 23 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |