Example sentences of "that [noun pl] can [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 2 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 3 | Dr Tournier comments : ‘ It is true that grandparents can often understand their children better than the parents do , and give them the acceptance they need in order to grow up . ’ |
| 4 | I have to acknowledge too that since you ought to be aware from your fellow 's viewpoints and incline towards their benefit as well as your own , and ought also to be aware that individuals can not benefit themselves or each other by community without agreeing on common rules , the rules you follow in acting towards your fellows should be those of your community and not of mine . |
| 5 | This alternative view claims that individuals can only develop their characteristically human capacities within society and that ‘ living in society is a necessary condition of the development of rationality … or of becoming a moral agent in the full sense of the term , or of becoming a fully responsible , autonomous being ’ . |
| 6 | The balancing truth is that children can never know what parents owe to them . |
| 7 | Yet in insisting , as many bankers do , that outsiders can not grasp their special business , bankers themselves are missing a chance to understand it better . |
| 8 | Passive or non-assertive behaviour can also mean expressing one 's thoughts and feelings in such an apologetic and self-effacing manner that others can easily disregard them . |
| 9 | Ground-nests are so well concealed that predators can easily overlook them even when they are only a few feet away . |
| 10 | Whereas Pope sees this as an inevitable consequence of women 's softness , Leapor believes that women can actually improve themselves . |