Example sentences of "can [vb infin] that [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dog may well think that his master is at the door : but unless a dog masters a language it is hard to see how he can think that he is thinking that his master is at the door . |
| 2 | I can confirm that he is supported by a competent staff , and has never actually been convicted of being foreign or of committing serial buttock fondling in his office or elsewhere . |
| 3 | If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths . |
| 4 | Imagine a department which can see that it is going to overspend its budget . |
| 5 | Whether the NHS is meeting the needs of the patients and the community , and can prove that it is doing so is open to question " . |
| 6 | After the answers that I have given , I do not know how anyone can say that nothing is happening on the matter . |
| 7 | If the focus process suggests one candidate in an earlier ‘ batch ’ than another , we can say that it is imposing a strong preference between those candidates ; so strong that the second one will only be considered at all if the reasoner decides the first is completely implausible . |