Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [vb infin] that [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can imagine that Aubrey might be indiscreet , but not that you — of all people — would celebrate the fact in your morning orisons ! ’ |
| 2 | I can imagine that Tom would find it funny . |
| 3 | I can see that England would be anathema to Fairfax . |
| 4 | I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us . |
| 5 | This is illustrated in Figure 4.4 ( a ) , and you can see that Venus would keep the same face towards the Sun . |
| 6 | In the first instance we can suggest that individuals will enter into organisations from a diverse range of social , economic and educational backgrounds which will give them different perspectives and different values . |
| 7 | Looking at the act of speaking in a broader way , we can see that intonation can signal to the listener what is to be taken as ‘ new ’ information and what is already ‘ given ’ , can suggest when the speaker is indicating some sort of contrast or link with material in another tone-unit and , in conversation , can convey to the listener what kind of response is expected . |
| 8 | We can reveal that ministers will come under increasing pressure from a range of new research on the plight of elderly people , who are widely beaten , tormented or robbed by relatives or carers . |
| 9 | It can mean that theory must be destabilised — ‘ destabilising ’ as something to be done to theory . |
| 10 | A democracy … demands a dissemination of political understanding wide enough to make the people 's will in government an effective thing … the uninformed citizen … can be misled by the easy halftruth and the persuasive slogan ; or he can feel that understanding will always be beyond him and fall into that apathy which leaves everything to authority . |