Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pers pn] can be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffin replies to such scepticism rather lamely : ‘ Allowing that an animal can be aware of outside events but denying that it can be self-aware becomes somewhat ridiculous — can the animal be aware of other creatures but not of itself ? ( 1984 : 205 ) . |
| 2 | He must know that you can be trusted , otherwise his first and last inclination must inevitably be to turn you down . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | And if you ca n't wait to taste them , you 'll be pleased to know that they can be defrosted in a microwave ! |
| 6 | Even psychiatrists in favour of ECT acknowledge that it can be misused . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's great to find that you can be really good friends with your own son , ’ he told Chris , back in London . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her . |
| 9 | I do n't think that they can be taken to be in any particular order . |
| 10 | Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity . |
| 11 | I find this a difficult case to understand but I do not think that it can be said to support the Woolwich principle . |
| 12 | I do not think that it can be doubted either that he wrote , i.e. dictated , a fair number of the letters in the RNI . |
| 13 | Blakemore inverted the concept , suggesting that it can be used to indicate an error band about a digitized line . |
| 14 | A series of components can be checked in a simple manner to see that they can be assembled together , making use of the enclosing box for each part . |
| 15 | But everyone agrees that it can be a useful therapeutic tool , easing the pain of dental treatment or curing diseases involving powerful but little-understood psychosomatic interactions , such as warts . |
| 16 | This should not be too much of a problem , but sometimes delays mean that it can be months before the feedback arrives . |
| 17 | How can they ensure that they can be effective , that is , that they can actually provide services as well as providing assessments ? ii If we go along the road of having dementia teams then what is the best management structure ; for such a team ? |
| 18 | Here we shall briefly remind the reader of the theory of one dimension , outline that for three dimensions ( noting in passing that it can be reduced to the product of one-dimensional walks ) and then give the Markoff chain theory , which is often not included in elementary tests . |
| 19 | When we examine prophecy in the Bible we soon conclude that it can be predictive ( telling about the future ) or proclamatory ( telling about God ) or both . |
| 20 | An advert for a CIA letter opener says that it can be driven by hammer through in plywood . |
| 21 | He says that it can be seen for the next week or so in the west , but it 's too faint to be seen with the naked eye . |
| 22 | ‘ The results show that we can be 99 per cent certain that these are the remains of Josef Mengele rather than the remains of someone who coincidentally had precisely the same genetic makeup . ’ |
| 23 | The Convention continues the distinction that has been traditionally drawn between rights and obligations , and assumes that they can be effectively distinguished . |
| 24 | Therefore , I hope that they can be persuaded to stop . |
| 25 | If that is done , I hope that it can be done here . |
| 26 | I would like to see this done , and have argued that it can be done , in the mainstream of the processual archaeology I was speaking of , with an explicit methodology . |
| 27 | Yet it is damaging to suggest that they can be answered separately from questions about the educational needs of children and young people themselves . |
| 28 | That confidence is lacking and there is nothing — except Sir John Wheeler 's unwise comment about the IRA 's defeat — to suggest that it can be restored . |
| 29 | Even your supporters are becoming alarmed by the destabilising effect of general practitioner fundholding , as you top slice cash from the central reserve and ensure that it can be spent only on the limited number of services that general practitioners are allowed to purchase directly . |
| 30 | I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book . |