Example sentences of "that [pron] can be [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the ability to attract good staff is , in itself , the mark of a good leader , but beyond that it can be said that Reagan himself was an indispensable part of the team . |
| 2 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
| 3 | Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity . |
| 4 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her . |
| 6 | However , the little word ’ normally ’ is slipped in , so that it can be argued that there are extenuating circumstances . |
| 7 | Between these two levels , risks are tolerable providing that it can be demonstrated that the cost ( in time , trouble and expense ) of reducing the risk further would be ‘ disproportionate ’ to any improvement achieved . |
| 8 | The interval must be long enough to avoid any carry-over practice effects between the first administration and the second , but sufficiently short so that it can be assumed that there will have been no change in the real underlying abilities of the children concerned . |