Example sentences of "that [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | By other forms of reproduction an image may be more or less degraded , so that nothing can be learnt from them . |
| 2 | Though people expect illness to become more frequent in old age , you should not assume that nothing can be done , but should consult your doctor if you think you have a health problem . |
| 3 | Are the sceptics right in saying nihil sciri , that nothing can be known ? |
| 4 | Some such open acceptance of our intellectual limitations would not be unrelated to Pyrrhonian ataraxia or peace of mind ; but although Locke does , indeed , conclude that the truth often outruns our ability to know it , he certainly does not accept that nothing can be known . |
| 5 | It is clear enough that nothing can be defined simply in negative terms . |
| 6 | Now it appears that nothing can prevent the enthusiastic fossilisation of all that remains of the revolutionary structures of 1919–39 . |
| 7 | This is not a call to glorify suffering for its own sake , but to realize that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ , whatever it may be . |
| 8 | The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes . |
| 9 | Though people expect illness to become more frequent in old age , you should not assume that nothing can be done , but should consult your doctor if you think you have a health problem . |
| 10 | Human beings have made so much progress since the beginnings of civilization , says Godwin , that nothing can now hinder the ultimate goal — the perfectibility of man . |
| 11 | I consider the distress of the farmers so great that nothing can be done to save many from absolute ruin . |
| 12 | Monica , 44 , said : ‘ I know that nothing can bring Alan back but for me no sentence that our courts are allowed to impose could ever be enough . |
| 13 | Rufus had always heard that nothing can go on in a village without the gossips knowing . |
| 14 | Einstein 's Theories of Relativity are generally assumed to tell us that nothing can travel faster than light . |
| 15 | Position heaters carefully so that nothing can overheat and catch fire . |
| 16 | As coach Roddan says : ‘ The race is so short that nothing can be allowed to go wrong — and nothing must ever distract them . ’ |
| 17 | When the grand collapse starts , it is so violent and so rapid that nothing can halt it . |
| 18 | It 's not just that nothing can harm them ( that old suave illusion ) , but that nothing can harm anyone they care about either . |
| 19 | Therefore , it is my opinion that nothing can be done to engender additional assistance of the type requested unless the State Department secures authority therefore … |
| 20 | So we might add to the tripartite analysis the fourth condition that nothing can be known which is inferred from a false belief , or from a group of beliefs of which one is false . |
| 21 | In spite of the fact that nothing can be substituted for — ness , and it therefore participates in no contrasts , recurrent or otherwise , it is different from — s in those books , and arguments can be put forward that it should be regarded as a semantic constituent . |
| 22 | It is clear that nothing can be reliably inferred from the mere fact that a word form has different meaning relations in different contexts , and independent evidence concerning ambiguity or generality is required . |
| 23 | Uvedale Price objects in 1810 to villages like Nuneham Courtenay ( Fig. 23a ) on aesthetic grounds , as might be expected from an advocate of the picturesque : ‘ Such a methodical arrangement saves all further thought and invention ; but it is hardly necessary to say that nothing can be more formal and insipid . ’ |
| 24 | When I consider the striking natural beauties of such a river as that at Matlock , and the effect of the seven-storey buildings that have been raised there , and on other beautiful streams , for cotton manufactories , I am inclined to think that nothing can equal them for the purpose of disbeautifying an enchanting piece of scenery ; and that economy had produced , what the greatest ingenuity , if a prize were given for ugliness , could not surpass . |
| 25 | Indeed , it would bode ill for our political system if we mistrusted our state organisations , and if the courts approached the results of police investigations with the assumption that nothing can be taken at face value . |
| 26 | Recognizing that nothing can change in the unc and z directions ( |
| 27 | ‘ But such is the new-found and disturbing power of punk that nothing can stop the disc 's runaway success , ’ ranted the Sunday Mirror . |
| 28 | Otherwise , the fact that nothing can travel faster than light means that the round trip to the nearest star would take at least eight years . |
| 29 | How is it possible that a black hole appears to emit particles when we know that nothing can escape from within its event horizon ? |
| 30 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |