Example sentences of "and that [noun pl] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Smith and Goodman believe that skilled adult reading is far from error-free , and that errors can be a positive sign that the sense of the text has been grasped . |
| 2 | ‘ IBM will say it has the same API everywhere , and that users can retain code ’ , he says , ‘ But it 's not promising that it will work unchanged ’ . |
| 3 | Trustees are obliged under Article 119 to do everything in their power to ensure benefits comply with equal treatment and that cases can be brought against them as well as the employer , it says , although it recognises there may be limits imposed by the size of the fund and the trust terms . |
| 4 | We are all aware that streams dry up , valleys fill with silt ( Fig. 3 ) , and that changes can occur along the coast , but we perhaps underestimate how great these changes may have been in the last 1000 years . |
| 5 | Their intention is to convince readers that genetics will have a powerful influence on their lives and that scientists can not be trusted to protect them : ‘ We can not just sit by as passive worshippers or victims ’ . |
| 6 | She was suggesting that ‘ relevant ’ skills are best learned in the context in which they are relevant , and that teachers can never be certain that their pupils are acquiring the ability to cope in any particular context unless they see them operating in that context . |
| 7 | It means that only one person can speak at a time and that members can not address each other directly . |
| 8 | Submissive behaviour is defined as coming from a belief that your rights and needs are less important than other people 's and that others can violate them . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , inner-city speakers know that some /u/ items can alternate and that others can not . |
| 10 | Tackling an inherent lack of confidence in the stressed individual is also crucial ( as discussed in chapter 2 ) , as is increasing the individual 's awareness that they are not alone , and that networks can be developed to reduce its impact . |
| 11 | In hide-and-seek , a number of people agree for a period of time to abstract from living what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function ( i.e. that people can be ‘ hiders ’ and ‘ seekers ’ and that places can be ‘ hiding places ’ ) and to behave , for the time being , as if only that function mattered . |
| 12 | What we do wish to note is that other things being equal , the demand for bank lending will vary inversely with interest rates and that banks can not lend unless people wish to borrow . |
| 13 | He uses three premisses : that houses , mountains , and rivers , are what we perceive by sense ; that what we perceive by sense are ‘ our own ideas or sensations ’ ; and that ideas can not exist unperceived . |
| 14 | Given that dogs can discriminate three-dimensional objects in living-rooms , and that kingfishers can catch fish viewed from above the water , how do they manage to do so ? |
| 15 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 16 | What is important is that the Read codes will cover any information in a patient record and that clinicians can go on using the words they like — ‘ breathlessness , ’ for example , when taking a patient 's history — though they will have to be more disciplined about abbreviations . |
| 17 | Before turning to these — set out in two stages ( see below , pp. 93 – 106 ) — we need to be clear what we mean by reflective thinking , and that pupils can do it . |