Example sentences of "could show that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way I could show that in my opinion they were absolutely wrong was to start an action for libel . ’ |
| 2 | On this view , a doctor could avoid liability only if he could show that , apart from consenting , the patient was carefully studied and examined in a context where specialist medical and psychiatric facilities were available , that the consensus of expert opinion was that surgery was called for , and that this was explained to and understood by the patient before he gave his consent . |
| 3 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 4 | Future studies could show that genetic changes in gene families could have effects on any aspect of phenotype , from sexual behaviour to morphology , and might also influence the behaviour of chromosomes and the expression of genes . |
| 5 | Leave was granted to make the assessment on the basis that on appeal the company could show that the accounting period ended on 31 January 1978 . |
| 6 | Indeed , even a trader who withheld credit from women simply because they are women could be within the law if he could show that women were unreliable payers . |
| 7 | A more sensitive way of handling elder abuse , including counselling and the rapid introduction of relief services could show that this phenomenon is a recognised concomitant of the excessive strains of caring , especially for mentally impaired elderly people ( Traynor and Hasnip , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | She argued that , if she could show that what was regarded as normal behaviour in the United States in fact varies from one society to another , then it followed that such behaviour could not be the result of people 's biological characteristics but rather of their culture . |
| 9 | The test was whether the prosecution could show that the tipper received some form of direct or indirect personal benefit from the outlawed conduct . |
| 10 | There was a confused position and Baldwin was entitled to continue until the oppositions could show that they could and would defeat him in the House of Commons . |
| 11 | The industrial tribunal found that the reason for the dismissals was that the managing director was strongly anti-union but that none of the four could show that the reason for his dismissal was his own union membership or activities . |
| 12 | Authorities could , within clear guidelines , make discretionary payments — for example , to practices on the boundaries of ‘ deprived ’ wards who could show that they would receive payment if enumeration districts were used . |
| 13 | One would feel happier about the anthropic principle , at least in its weak version , if one could show that quite a number of different initial configurations for the universe would have evolved to produce a universe like the one we observe . |
| 14 | This would mean that one could appeal to the weak anthropic principle , provided one could show that string theory does at least allow there to be such regions of the universe-and it seems that indeed string theory does . |
| 15 | We began this section by stating that under certain conditions we could show that free enterprise or free markets led to a Pareto-efficient allocation . |
| 16 | In this case , following the nemo dat principle , B is now the owner ; they were B's goods at the time A sold them to C and therefore A could not , without B 's authority , confer title upon C. This result would be , different , however , if C could show that C's contract with A fell within one of the exceptions to the nemo dat principle . |
| 17 | This relation is called SALES-ORDER and it could show that Lee ordered 12 of ‘ part number ’ 25 , Deene and Smith ordered 18 and 9 respectively of ‘ part number ’ 38 , and Williams ordered 100 of ‘ part number ’ 87 . |
| 18 | But this makes it all the more unreasonable to suppose that any a priori argument could show that one strategy will always be the right one . |
| 19 | No competition of any binding sites within the PPT promoter was seen by the 71/72 oligonucleotide although under similar conditions we could show that an AP1 oligonucleotide specifically competed a previously proposed AP1 binding site ( 7 ) . |
| 20 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |