Example sentences of "[conj] you can tell the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure you know the care instructions so that you can tell the customer how the item should be washed or stored . |
| 2 | Like Eric you 'll discover that you can tell the difference ! |
| 3 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 4 | You can cancel retirement only once , and you can tell the DHSS at any time that you would like to retire immediately . |
| 5 | But erm you bleep with one , one of ours is , is , is erm on tones now and you can tell the diff you , you , you can tell |
| 6 | If you can tell the board the team is ailing |
| 7 | well , oh you 're supposed to have four cups I 'll er I 'll use it one day and not tell you and see if you can tell the difference shall I ? |
| 8 | So unless we can say , as we said above for knowledge , that you can not claim your belief is justified unless you can tell the difference between cases where such beliefs are true and cases where they are false , it will be impossible to conclude that your true belief here is unjustified . |