Example sentences of "we can [verb] that the [noun] " 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 | How much better it will be to say to people , ‘ We can ensure that the children you have will be the best possible children , the ones with the best inheritance , the ones who will make the world a really good place to live in instead of the misery it so often is . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | A No 10 spokeswoman said : ‘ We can confirm that the letter has arrived . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | We can suggest that the eye spots scare off predators , and there is some evidence that this is so . |
17 | Given the theories that we have explored above we can suggest that the manager needs to : |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Thus we can conclude that the coins and the two monograms are more or less contemporary . |
20 | We can conclude that the audit has said nothing about economy , efficiency or effectiveness . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | We can conclude that the advertising campaign has been very successful : |
23 | Summarizing , we can conclude that the GGGCCC motif seems to adopt a strongly curved conformation with a direction of curvature opposite to and the magnitude similar to the A-tracts . |
24 | Generally , then , we can conclude that the monetarists ' major policy recommendation is : maintain a steady constant growth in the money supply , otherwise leave things well alone . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
29 | Since the ‘ Keynesian ’ sees no reason to expect money incomes to be directly affected by the increase in the money supply , we can assume that the transactions and precautionary demands remain unchanged at first . |
30 | 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 . |