Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] [that] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It er , first of all I can confirm that an announcement is being made today er secondly secondly secondly I can confirm that it is not usual for such announcements to be made by way of oral statement . |
| 2 | I mean I can see that a lot of people I mean I think that we should thank our men and women who were in the Gulf , of course we should , erm I 'm questioning only the way that we 've chosen to do it , by a victory parade . |
| 3 | While its hindquarters are towards you there is no real danger , but if it turns round and you can see its head you can bet that a bid to escape is pending . |
| 4 | ‘ You can argue that a change in rates might make a decisive turnround in the next six months or so … but recent behaviour of the foreign exchanges suggests that government control is not possible . |
| 5 | But you can argue that a woman has a right to the use that she makes of her own body . |
| 6 | But , for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift . |
| 7 | The same is true of the coinage of medieval Europe : we can tell that a coin is , say , Spanish or English from the inscription , which usually refers to the kingdom in question , but the date may well be far from apparent . |
| 8 | Iain Robertson , chief executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise , explained : ‘ By having all types of training meeting one common standard , we can ensure that a school leaver in Caithness with a training credit , a college student in Inverness or Stornoway , and the employer of a trainee in Shetland undertaking a Scottish Vocational Qualification , all benefit from further education and training to a standard which is underpinned by a recognised set of quality measurements . ’ |
| 9 | We can expect that a change of context after prolonged training would produce an actual increase in the magnitude of the observed CR . |
| 10 | We can deduce that a nucleus of beryllium has four protons and five neutrons , iron has 26 protons and 30 neutrons , lead has 82 protons and an awful lot of neutrons . |
| 11 | We can conclude that an increase in national income will only be equivalent to an increase in real output per capita if both prices and the population remain unchanged . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 20 | We think it 's a false economy , but we can understand that a seaside hotelier , for example , may not want to train casual , seasonal staff . |
| 21 | By inspection of ( 3 ) we can see that a column vector xi postmultiplying ( 2I — A ) to give a null result must be such that unc vanishes ; two obvious vectors achieving this are{ 1,2,4 ) and{ 1,0 , — 1 } . |
| 22 | If we now look at the curve which shows the freon ratios in surface water and look for a ratio of two , and lining this up with the nought degree curve because we 're working with Antarctic water which of course is very cold , we can see that a ratio of two corresponds to the year nineteen fifty nine . |
| 23 | We can see that a horse 's physical needs , like food , will affect not only its health , but also its emotions ; and we can see , too , that denial of the horse 's psychological needs will only make life more difficult for ourselves . |
| 24 | From these answers we can see that a horse 's temperament may touch on all these statements , or their opposites , and that the horse 's temperament is demonstrated by its general or most consistent mood and natural disposition . |
| 25 | Thus we can see that an uncertainty exists about formal support for old people in the community which contrasts oddly with the general acceptance of accountability for those in residential care , even in the private sector . |
| 26 | From the above passage we can see that an examination of the production , circulation and consumption of the total social product presents different problems from those posed by the movement of a single capital . |
| 27 | And we hopefully are going to manage our business in such a way that we can accept that a Mini is , is a quality result . |
| 28 | For we can know that a species is related to an ancestral population by evolutionary descent , even though the details of the transition are controversial . ' ’ |
| 29 | ( To understand the violence of this explosion , we can realize that a supernova may temporarily shine brighter than all the rest of the 100 billion or so stars in its galaxy put together . ) |
| 30 | Both Fanny and Henry enjoy literature so therefore we can predict that a marriage between them would not have been a total disaster . |