Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] there can " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do not think that there can be a rational , scientific criterion by which you can say : this is really the best . |
| 2 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 3 | I do not think that there can be any quarrel with those terms . |
| 4 | I was absolutely delighted , colleagues , when the , er , recommendation came through that Eric should be awarded the gold badge because I could personally testify that there can be no better winner or holder of the G M gold badge . |
| 5 | With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . " |
| 6 | Clearly if a person has no knowledge of the success of performance the performance can not improve because there can be no guidelines to steer the improvement . |
| 7 | You will appreciate that there can be no guarantee of success following an approach . |
| 8 | ‘ It is wrong to assume that the woman must show signs of injury or that she must always physically resist before there can be a conviction for rape . |
| 9 | This would mean that there can never be an authentic speech of the other as such , a position which certainly troubles Levinas ' fundamental argument . |
| 10 | For he does not allow that there can be someone who genuinely asks himself what he should do in a moral way , but whose answer is in terms of what is only one of various logically coherent moralities . |
| 11 | The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy . |
| 12 | However , let us not pretend that there can not be a choice . |
| 13 | we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . |
| 14 | ‘ even in these days when affrays , riotous behaviour and other disturbances happen ill too frequently , we can not accept that there can be a breach of the peace unless there has been an act done or threatened to be done which either actually harms a person , or in his presence his property , or is likely to cause such harm , or which puts someone in fear of such harm being done . ’ |
| 15 | Proposals for new EC milk hygiene regulations currently under discussion in Brussels will , however , introduce a common standard across the Community Competition from the rest of the EC will increase and there can be no room for complacency . |