Example sentences of "we can [adv] [vb infin] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can thus conclude that the ε-ζ values of roughly -30° observed for these steps in the dodecamer conformation clearly belong to the B I family . |
| 2 | We can thus see that the whole of the rest of the parish could be used for arable . |
| 3 | In C. S. Lewis ' quest for joy , we can clearly see that the void left by his mother 's death was never replaced in his childhood , nor indeed perhaps ever in his whole life . |
| 4 | We can not expect that the experience and experiments of other people in other places occupied with other problems will produce answers off the peg which will fit our particular requirements . |
| 5 | Thus if we have a whole W , made up of parts X and Y then we can not assume that the value of W is the value of X added to the value of Y , for W may be an organic unity . |
| 6 | If we are to understand the significance of subject specialization , then we must take the choices made by women seriously : we can not assume that the student who chooses physical science is somehow ‘ right ’ while the student who chooses the humanities is somehow ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 7 | In other words , in this case , we can not assume that the position in 1974 represented inter-generational equity . |
| 8 | They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us . |
| 9 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 10 | Even now , almost a decade into the project , we can not say that the monster does or does not exist . |
| 11 | Therefore , we can not say that the environment elsewhere does not concern us . |
| 12 | By applying the Pareto condition , we can not say that the oil discovery improves actual economic welfare . |
| 13 | A senior researcher at the Meteorological Office said in January 1991 that " we can not prove that the rise was caused by the greenhouse effect , but it is likely " . |
| 14 | David Parker , a senior researcher at the Met Office , said : " We can not prove that the rise was caused by the greenhouse effect , but it is likely . " |
| 15 | 1 In the most basic sense , we can simply say that the British Constitution is the " set-up " as it is . |
| 16 | We can also note that the relating of the artistic to the existential is characteristic of a long line of German writers . |
| 17 | Having seen that double bed tuck has much in common with Fisherman 's Rib , we can also see that the fabric produced in this way will have many features that are the same . |
| 18 | Some part of Sisson 's censures must surely be conceded : whatever esteem we have and should have for Gavin Douglas 's translation of the Aeneid , we can hardly believe that the Philadelphian Ezra Pound was any more at ease than most of us with Bishop Douglas 's sixteenth-century Scots . |
| 19 | By relying on circular symmetry we can further claim that the electric field will have only a radial component which means that |
| 20 | If we recall what was said earlier regarding the trend in primate evolution which promoted the visual sense over that of smell and prehensile agility over terrestrial quadrupedalism , we can readily see that the definitive adoption of a fully upright posture in man is only the culmination of this much more general evolutionary tendency . |
| 21 | Now we can readily see that the evident lack of a culturally defined latency period — by which we really mean one resulting from an enforcement of the incest taboo during childhood — is entirely explicable and , indeed , inevitable in these circumstances . |
| 22 | Here , anything that threatens the superego tends to be destructive ; and we can readily see that the externalization of conflict , although defensive for the ego , may be damaging for the culture because the effect of the externalization is to make the culture the locus of the conflict . |
| 23 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 24 | We can therefore conclude that the ideas of Marx and Weber can , for our purposes , be partly combined to produce a three-class model of contemporary capitalist societies . |
| 25 | We can truly imagine that the Community will be close to becoming ‘ our Common European Home ’ . |
| 26 | It is in virtue of ( 5 ) , ( 7 ) , and ( 8 ) that we can truly say that the circumstance makes happen and explains the effect , and not the other way on . |
| 27 | I think we can safely assume that the statuette was washed and wiped clean after the event . ’ |
| 28 | When newspapers start to report falls in Labour 's opinion-poll lead to 15% as a setback and Conservatives claim as a triumph Labour 's best-ever local-government result , we can safely conclude that the political landscape in Britain has changed . |
| 29 | We can now contemplate that the relevant cc-e connection , when we suppose that cc caused e , can be stated in this way : If cc occurred , then even if x had occurred , e would still have occurred . |
| 30 | We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express . |