Example sentences of "we can [vb infin] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From this we can infer that the proportion of useful information obtained by expansion to the second level is less than that available at the first level . |
| 32 | But , I think if we have further discussions with churches and districts that we might see that we can break that a bit further for that reason when we come to er , come to the resolutions I would advise you er er propose a minor amendment with the second thing . |
| 33 | We need to ask whether the effects of hypnosis upon human thought processes , on reasoning and memory , are really understood ; whether we can assume that a person under hypnosis truly remembers actual events . |
| 34 | In finding such probabilities , some account should be taken of deaths in the cohort during the year in question ; we can assume that a person dying lives , on average , six months of the year so that the population at risk of marriage at the start of the year should be reduced by half the deaths . |
| 35 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 36 | This is an approximate calculation so we can assume that the density and specific heat capacity of the reaction mixture are the same as that for water . |
| 37 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
| 38 | Since the ‘ Keynesian ’ sees no reason to expect money incomes to be directly affected by the increase in the money supply , we can assume that the transactions and precautionary demands remain unchanged at first . |
| 39 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 40 | Initially the subject will attend to a new stimulus but will then gradually lose interest and start to look away ( habituation ) ; if the stimulus is then changed in some way and if this causes a re-awakening of interest ( dishabituation ) then we can assume that the baby has detected the change . |
| 41 | Unfortunately there are no German records in existence ( perhaps something may now turn up after the reunification ! ) but we can assume that the result of the raid fell short of causing significant damage to the German war machine . |
| 42 | We can assume that the processing resources available for language production are limited , and attempts to hold items for future as well as current constituents would result in an unnecessary drain on processing resources . |
| 43 | Also we can show that a change in the supply of base will cause a predictable change in the money supply , also dependent in size upon these magnitudes . |
| 44 | Then we can show that the relationship between the quantity of base money in existence and the outstanding money supply depends numerically upon the magnitude of the ratios and . |
| 45 | For example ( taking the Avogadro constant to be ) : By turning these statements around we can show that the Avogadro constant is a physical quantity and not a pure number . |
| 46 | If we imagine the situation at the end of the Miller 's Tale in realistic terms , we can suppose that the divisions amongst the pilgrims in terms of their appreciation of the tale are as likely to reflect different sensibilities to the marked , fabliau language the Miller 's Tale makes use of as shock at the possible moral implications of the tale ( compare the response to the Prioress 's Tale , noted in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 47 | It was never fully explained why he had to leave , but we can imagine that the ardour with which he had previously performed his duties ( always the first to take on extra work ) had gone too far . |
| 48 | We can claim that the theology of the Cross forces us now to talk of God in very different ways . |
| 49 | We can retort that the city has more miles of canals than Venice ; that it has more parkland than any other city in Western Europe ; that it has a world-famous symphony orchestra , a marvellous Art Gallery ; that it … the list goes on . |
| 50 | If we call the complex of scientific theories generally accepted and well established at some stage in the history of science the background knowledge of the time , then we can say that a conjecture will be bold if its claims are unlikely in the light of the background knowledge of the time . |
| 51 | Following the Oxford Dictionary , which is here a more lucid guide than my more abstruse colleagues , we can say that a symbol signifies something other than or complementary to itself ; it can therefore be used to represent , express , or image things which are external to it but to which it is linked in an appropriate fashion . |
| 52 | We can of course continue to talk in jurisdictional terminology ; we can say that a tribunal 's jurisdiction is conditional on it making no errors of law . |
| 53 | It is in this sense that we can say that every organisation is political and every organisation is concerned with the use , and abuse , of power . |
| 54 | We can say that the problem being defined here is not so much that the pupils are getting the wrong education ( though they might be getting the wrong teachers ) as that industry is getting the wrong pupils ! |
| 55 | I think we can say that the A L O er washed it hands completely |
| 56 | Similarly , we can say that the purchase of a new machine by a firm is investment — the machine itself will not yield utility to anyone in the current period but will produce ( or help to produce ) consumer goods probably for a long time into the future . |
| 57 | We can say that the purpose of knowing is truth ( however conceived ) and that the purpose of doing is effectiveness ( Horner 1985 ) . |
| 58 | Although we ca n't predict the future in detail , we can say that the winds of change are blowing ever more strongly . |
| 59 | In this sense we can say that the structuring principle of all discourse is dialogue ; but we will need to examine the relationship between the word order and this dialogue more thoroughly . |
| 60 | Leaving aside the problems of precise definition of revenues and costs , we can say that the profit accruing to an enterprise equals revenue minus costs . |