Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you comply with their claims to being the sole centre of musical importance or not , nobody can say that The Smiths have n't , so far , fulfilled their promise . |
| 2 | Nobody can doubt that the Massaliotes explored seas and coasts . |
| 3 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 4 | One is that it is doubtful in the extreme whether one can assume that the legislature always intended the tribunal to be the arbiter as to what the contents of the bracket ought to be . |
| 5 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 6 | For instance , if the network connects the node ‘ student ’ to the node ‘ person ’ with the link ‘ is a ’ , then one can infer that the properties of ‘ student ’ are inherited from those of ‘ person ’ . |
| 7 | Scientifically , one can observe that the concepts of a geocentric universe and a flat Earth are fallacious , though there are still those who would disagree . |
| 8 | One can feel that the emotions in these novels are very deep as they seem to bounce off every page to reveal yet another new anguish as the protagonists ' sad , poverty stricken lives unfold . |
| 9 | If one can find that the things described by particular words have some common characteristic one ought to limit the general words that follow them to things of that genus ( Lambourn v McLellan [ 1903 ] 2 Ch 268 ) . |
| 10 | And , even if one can see that the reasons which caused the principle to be adopted provide no logical justification for such an immunity as the privilege against producing incriminating documents which came into existence before any dispute arose , that immunity holds sway . |
| 11 | One can see that the task of interpreting will share similarities in its processes no matter which languages are being used . |
| 12 | There is an immense difference between the political systems of fascism and of liberal democracy , either of which may exist in a capitalist society ; and no one can doubt that the history of the world would have been very different if the fascist powers had been victorious in the Second World War . |
| 13 | Admittedly , this decline is not ‘ comparable to ’ that in the Mirror , but given that The Times was ‘ a newspaper of record ’ whilst the Mirror was a popular newspaper , one can argue that the decline in The Times ’ coverage was more serious . |
| 14 | No one can deny that the Council has done a great deal to improve the quality of education . |
| 15 | No one can say that the scientists showed no conscience at that moment . |
| 16 | Other crops were grown , mainly for cattle fodder ; fertility of soil varies ; but in general one can say that the area producing corn ( and in wine-growing areas , especially south of the Alps , wine ) is a rough test of population . |
| 17 | At any rate , on the level of narrative one can say that The Lord of the Rings is neither a saint 's life , all about temptation , nor a complicated wargame , all about tactics . |
| 18 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |
| 19 | Well , erm , it 's difficult to make forecasts , particularly with the S E C breathing down one 's neck but I think one can say that the industry conditions , if you were to read the reports of other companies and for us , is pretty much erm , status quo , in other words the domestic excuse me , domestic industry 's doing quite well , the rig , the rig count 's up , the Canadian rig count 's up , international markets remain rather soggy but some of them are qui you know on a , on a selective basis some are quite good . |
| 20 | Anyone can see that the breaching of the Berlin Wall is a great symbolic event as well as an actual one . |
| 21 | If they then go out and collect signatures no-one can say that the petition has been organized by a small group who have twisted arms in the street . |