Example sentences of "that [pron] can not [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 2 | I mean that you can not say that carp are generally nocturnal feeders , or morning feeders , or whatever . |
| 3 | Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Labour party says that we can not argue that a single person should pay less than a family next door with several working adults . |
| 6 | Well it pays to tramp around you see the problem with Jackie and Len has always been that they can not believe that you can get things in a place like W H Smith that will , that will do very nicely as a Christmas present , they tend to go |