Example sentences of "we can [verb] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can tell that the window broke because there is glass on the ground . |
| 2 | We can tell that the writer is eager to take us to the climax . |
| 3 | In the sentence completion task , children were asked to complete sentence fragments which , for deductive items , were of the form : We can tell that the pillow burst because … |
| 4 | ‘ We can ensure that the public has insurance cover ideally suited to their requirements , ’ he says optimistically . |
| 5 | We must ask how we can ensure that the health service reaches ever higher targets in areas of great social difficulty . ’ |
| 6 | This reduces to , Hence , by defining N ( d 1 ) as the reciprocal of the hedge ratio we can ensure that the value of the hedged portfolio does not change during the next time period . |
| 7 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 8 | The subcutaneous nature of the disorder allows its natural history to be followed with ease ; if we can confirm that the disease is caused by cell-mediated immune mechanisms , medical therapy might be developed as an adjunct or alternative to surgery , allowing a more conservative surgical approach with the prospect of reduced postoperative morbidity and recurrence . |
| 9 | A No 10 spokeswoman said : ‘ We can confirm that the letter has arrived . ’ |
| 10 | In a statement , gloucestershire police said : We can confirm that the family have expressed some concern over police activity , the matter has been refered to the independant police complaints authority which will supervise inquiries concerning the death . |
| 11 | From what we know of modern witchcraft practices , we can speculate that the stone circles were used for dancing and that this was a method of raising power ( similar to the ‘ cone of power ’ that witches use today ) which could then be stored in the stones to be used when required . |
| 12 | Well , we can hope that the success last season in the FA Youth Cup means that we have an excellent crop of players coming through . |
| 13 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 14 | At one level we can suggest that the adversary politics perspective is more at one with the reality of party politics than is the thesis about responsible party government in Britain , but we really need to attend to the facts with respect to two broad areas of concern . |
| 15 | We can suggest that the eye spots scare off predators , and there is some evidence that this is so . |
| 16 | Given the theories that we have explored above we can suggest that the manager needs to : |
| 17 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 18 | We can conclude that the audit has said nothing about economy , efficiency or effectiveness . |
| 19 | From this internal knowledge of Belfast English we can conclude that the speaker who says [ ku : ] for queue is using a careful style strategy to avoid the palatalized segment ( see my comments on avoidance of stigma in chapter 2.6 , above ) , which is a strongly regional marker and also a marker of older male speech . |
| 20 | We can conclude that the advertising campaign has been very successful : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We can claim that the theology of the Cross forces us now to talk of God in very different ways . |