Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] that [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has always taken a stand against bullies and tyrants to ensure that we can live in a safe world and I pray that our resolution to do this will remain undiminished . |
| 2 | The assessment will be integrative — that is , it will require candidates to demonstrate that they can draw together the vocational and the core skills strands of the whole programme for that general SVQ . |
| 3 | If it were possible to diminish the use of gas , to increase British coal production and to erect trade and tariff barriers to ensure that we can not import foreign coal , what would the consequences be for those who want to use the power that is generated ? |
| 4 | A striking exception is to be found in Herbert 's The Flower , one of the few poems to suggest that there can be growth , change and joy in old age . |
| 5 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 6 | It is now up to the mainstream physicists to show that they can organise themselves to the point where they can justify their basic funds , and the extra money that has now been set aside for them ( This Week , 3 February , p 287 ) . |
| 7 | The construction does not , I think , accomplish this , and there are reasons to believe that it can not be successfully carried out . |
| 8 | But it is disingenuous for academics to pretend that they can participate in such discussion on terms of complete equality with their students , for there are questions of power and authority involved ; at the end of the day , grades and marks , assessing and examining , come into the picture . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 10 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 11 | Frankly , it is not an adequate response for Labour Members to pretend that they can somehow keep the market for coal at its present level . |
| 12 | So it 's too young at the moment for the girls to feel that they ca n't do science . |
| 13 | The fact that different pupils will highlight different features in retelling a story will help children to appreciate that there can be different versions of an event and help to ensure coverage of Attainment Target 2 . |
| 14 | The word ‘ endotoxin ’ may be a misnomer , but we think that there is sufficient evidence obtained by injecting endotoxins into healthy volunteers to prove that it can give rise to the clinical symptoms of gram-negative sepsis . |
| 15 | Just as we need sensible rules to regulate our economic behaviour , so we need firmly and fairly applied laws to ensure that we can go about our lives in freedom and security . |