Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] [pers pn] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | As women , we need to accept that we can be fierce , cunning and predatory before we can start to use these energies in a constructive way . |
| 2 | If we want the situation to be as realistic as possible , we have to accept that we can not control all the variables , and can therefore never be sure that the cause and effect relationships we identify are , in fact , correct . |
| 3 | But proving the necessity of crime requires more than showing that some things that were formerly criminal are now important parts of healthy social life ( even if we were to accept that we can objectively determine what constitutes healthy social life ) . |
| 4 | To have a concept of error is to accept that we can be in error on a given occasion even though we do not believe we are , and hence that we can be corrected by others . |
| 5 | We would do better to accept that we can not say precisely how much of the book dates from this last stage , although there were , no doubt , changes of various kinds , including deletions . |
| 6 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 7 | It has had to accept that it can do neither without a deal with the opposition . |
| 8 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 9 | Bond owners might like to know that they can use her Knitmaster Chunky ribber-carrying cases for their machines — the bags are the perfect size for the Bond Classic . |
| 10 | It is frustrating to know that they can still , if they wish , punch the button marked ‘ Excess ’ . |
| 11 | READERS might like to know that they can play a part in choosing the UK ‘ People of the Year ’ . |
| 12 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |
| 13 | And if you ca n't wait to taste them , you 'll be pleased to know that they can be defrosted in a microwave ! |
| 14 | It 's reassuring to know that we can all get back to abusing each other and women know their place — ‘ Harry , the ceiling needs painting ’ and ‘ Is n't it my turn on top ? ’ |
| 15 | We 'll wander round , I mean let's to know that we can sort of just have a little walk as it were . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't take it out very often but it 's nice to have , to know that you can go anywhere you want if you feel like it . ’ |
| 18 | Of course , you can always do more but it is encouraging to know that you can reap the benefits of exercise in just ninety minutes a week . |
| 19 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 20 | but you 'd want to be able to know that you can I do n't know , I mean , I , I think , with , with the place I am now I just do n't know what to make of it really |
| 21 | It may well then be valuable for the beneficiary of a trust to know that he can obtain the property intended for him if he sues and prevails in cognitio against the trustee . |
| 22 | The child needs to know that he can win the heart of his parents , but also that such feelings can be handled safely . |
| 23 | I like to know that I can paint a hand or fingernail in great detail , almost photographically in contrast to areas of detail . |
| 24 | These people may need to get married — trapped — to prove that they can get out , that divorce is not impossible , to discover that they can influence and do something about the situation . |
| 25 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 26 | Treatment Centres tent to find that they can not predict which people are most likely to obtain lasting recovery . |
| 27 | Then again , too many young people have been through the finals course , often at considerable financial hardship to themselves or their families , only to find that they can not be absorbed into a recession-hit profession . |
| 28 | It is gratifying to find that I can not only look good , but I can look respectable too . |
| 29 | It is infuriating to have to mow an extra half width , or to find that you can not turn a corner without complicated manoeuvres . |
| 30 | You will , no doubt , be amazed to find that you can recite the list in order quite easily . |