Example sentences of "we can not [verb] that the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 ’ .
4 In other words , in this case , we can not assume that the position in 1974 represented inter-generational equity .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Even now , almost a decade into the project , we can not say that the monster does or does not exist .
8 Therefore , we can not say that the environment elsewhere does not concern us .
9 By applying the Pareto condition , we can not say that the oil discovery improves actual economic welfare .
10 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 " .
11 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 . "
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