Example sentences of "we can [vb infin] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is true of the coinage of medieval Europe : we can tell that a coin is , say , Spanish or English from the inscription , which usually refers to the kingdom in question , but the date may well be far from apparent . |
| 2 | We can tell that the window broke because there is glass on the ground . |
| 3 | We can tell that the writer is eager to take us to the climax . |
| 4 | In the sentence completion task , children were asked to complete sentence fragments which , for deductive items , were of the form : We can tell that the pillow burst because … |
| 5 | A spokeswoman for the hospital said : ‘ It will be a couple of months before we can tell if the treatment has been successful . |
| 6 | Iain Robertson , chief executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise , explained : ‘ By having all types of training meeting one common standard , we can ensure that a school leaver in Caithness with a training credit , a college student in Inverness or Stornoway , and the employer of a trainee in Shetland undertaking a Scottish Vocational Qualification , all benefit from further education and training to a standard which is underpinned by a recognised set of quality measurements . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We can ensure that the public has insurance cover ideally suited to their requirements , ’ he says optimistically . |
| 8 | We must ask how we can ensure that the health service reaches ever higher targets in areas of great social difficulty . ’ |
| 9 | How much better it will be to say to people , ‘ We can ensure that the children you have will be the best possible children , the ones with the best inheritance , the ones who will make the world a really good place to live in instead of the misery it so often is . ’ |
| 10 | This reduces to , Hence , by defining N ( d 1 ) as the reciprocal of the hedge ratio we can ensure that the value of the hedged portfolio does not change during the next time period . |
| 11 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 12 | The subcutaneous nature of the disorder allows its natural history to be followed with ease ; if we can confirm that the disease is caused by cell-mediated immune mechanisms , medical therapy might be developed as an adjunct or alternative to surgery , allowing a more conservative surgical approach with the prospect of reduced postoperative morbidity and recurrence . |
| 13 | A No 10 spokeswoman said : ‘ We can confirm that the letter has arrived . ’ |
| 14 | In a statement , gloucestershire police said : We can confirm that the family have expressed some concern over police activity , the matter has been refered to the independant police complaints authority which will supervise inquiries concerning the death . |
| 15 | From what we know of modern witchcraft practices , we can speculate that the stone circles were used for dancing and that this was a method of raising power ( similar to the ‘ cone of power ’ that witches use today ) which could then be stored in the stones to be used when required . |
| 16 | Such objects do not lie beyond our grasp , as the sceptic might suggest ; for we can hope that every member of the set of statements about what would be observed should be conclusively verified , and in such a case there would remain no further possibility that the material object statement should be false . |
| 17 | Well , we can hope that the success last season in the FA Youth Cup means that we have an excellent crop of players coming through . |
| 18 | We can expect that a change of context after prolonged training would produce an actual increase in the magnitude of the observed CR . |
| 19 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 20 | At one level we can suggest that the adversary politics perspective is more at one with the reality of party politics than is the thesis about responsible party government in Britain , but we really need to attend to the facts with respect to two broad areas of concern . |
| 21 | We can suggest that the eye spots scare off predators , and there is some evidence that this is so . |
| 22 | Given the theories that we have explored above we can suggest that the manager needs to : |
| 23 | We can deduce that a nucleus of beryllium has four protons and five neutrons , iron has 26 protons and 30 neutrons , lead has 82 protons and an awful lot of neutrons . |
| 24 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 25 | Thus we can conclude that the coins and the two monograms are more or less contemporary . |
| 26 | We can conclude that the audit has said nothing about economy , efficiency or effectiveness . |
| 27 | From this internal knowledge of Belfast English we can conclude that the speaker who says [ ku : ] for queue is using a careful style strategy to avoid the palatalized segment ( see my comments on avoidance of stigma in chapter 2.6 , above ) , which is a strongly regional marker and also a marker of older male speech . |
| 28 | We can conclude that the advertising campaign has been very successful : |
| 29 | Summarizing , we can conclude that the GGGCCC motif seems to adopt a strongly curved conformation with a direction of curvature opposite to and the magnitude similar to the A-tracts . |
| 30 | Generally , then , we can conclude that the monetarists ' major policy recommendation is : maintain a steady constant growth in the money supply , otherwise leave things well alone . |