Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [noun pl] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are reluctant to accept that rules can be formulated as probabilistic statements . |
| 2 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |
| 3 | Secondly , it would seem sensible to suggest that lessons can be learned from the experience of other jurisdictions , by adopting a comparative approach . |
| 4 | It would be pretentious to suggest that librarians can overturn the practice of censorship in non-democratic states , yet that is no reason for inaction . |
| 5 | It would be foolish to imagine that GIS can assist in all hazard studies , emergencies and disasters . |
| 6 | It is unrealistic to expect that accounts can contain ‘ full ’ provisions for the Businesses 's liabilities . |
| 7 | But that is to deny that women can also want and enjoy sex purely for the fun of it . |
| 8 | This is to ensure that instructors can modify while retaining the general path . |
| 9 | And it has installed control software to ensure that engineers can be on site in four hours if necessary . |
| 10 | In general , the aim of these facilities is to ensure that managers can explore options and their consequences before taking decisions which are crucial to the profitable operation of the business . |
| 11 | Our objective is to ensure that members can operate these new hours in a satisfactory way and not be expected to do so under enormous pressure . |
| 12 | To ensure that subscribers can make the most cost-effective use of its information resource , Infolink has developed a flexible enquiry service to allow subscribers to select only the information which is relevant to their particular needs . |
| 13 | National reflections currently focus upon the need for college to be ‘ responsive ’ in order to ensure that individuals can gain access to the curriculum ‘ regardless of any disability or special learning need they may have ’ ( FEU 1990 : 11 ) . |
| 14 | One manufacturer , Superswitch , provides 16 possible address codes to ensure that neighbours can avoid mutual interference if they want to . |
| 15 | The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance has called on the government to remove identifying numbers from voting forms to ensure that voters can not be traced . |
| 16 | For this reason , a mechanism must be built to ensure that assessors can be monitored and supported . |
| 17 | Providing resources to ensure that targets can be met . |
| 18 | The styles and values of both employees and managers currently support a job design philosophy that has its roots in work study and industrial engineering practice , and it flies in the face of conventional wisdom to believe that jobs can actually be designed rather than simply be the result of technologically determined requirements . |
| 19 | Whites need to recognise that blacks can not hope to prosper in any numbers while they are confined to ghettos of crime , poverty and lousy schools , and that it is society 's duty to do something about it . |
| 20 | With the advent of quantum mechanics , we have come to recognize that events can not be predicted with complete accuracy but that there is always a degree of uncertainty . |
| 21 | If you use drugs , you will need to consider that drugs can deplete your immune system and so speed up the progression of the illness . |
| 22 | By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers . |
| 23 | One only has to look at the achievements of David Gower , Monica Seles , John McEnroe and Jimmy White , to mention just a few , to realise that left-handers can excel at their chosen sport . |
| 24 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 25 | As Derek Attridge has demonstrated , Puttenham is forced to rely on the idea of decorum to argue that poets can transform the ‘ vices ’ of rhetoric to virtues in their use of art to perfect rather than pervert nature . |
| 26 | I WAS amazed to learn that firms can sack people for having affairs with colleagues . |
| 27 | Polyester and polyurethane are quick-drying paints and it 's surprising to learn that bodies can be buffed only hours after their final coating . |
| 28 | Nor is it to imply that difficulties can not be resolved . |
| 29 | It is perhaps overstating the case to say that motorists can speed with impunity in residential areas , but it is certainly true that the limit is widely disregarded and rarely enforced . |
| 30 | To say that sounds can be switched off , can no longer affect you , is not possible for a musician . |