Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] can [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The File Manager obligingly scans the entire disk and lists all the files beginning with Q. I can see that the ones I want have been installed under D : \WINDOWS\QUOTE , and I can use the File Manager to look at them . |
| 2 | In my own defence I can say that everyone else got it wrong too . |
| 3 | When I drew the attention of the Leader of the Opposition to previous threats of that sort , he wrote as follows : ’ Of course I can confirm that there will be absolutely no action of this kind . ’ |
| 4 | In any case , in the harsher bathroom light I can see that I 've put it on too thickly . |
| 5 | With this in mind we can see that the indulgent familiarity of the maternal uncle towards his nephew matches the mother 's generous affection towards her child . |
| 6 | Pursuing , perhaps riskily , a computer analogy we can argue that while the body resembles the hardware of a computer the mind comprises the software , the programmes that analyse and organize information to produce responses to inputs . |
| 7 | In essence we can say that the sentenced prison population is a function of the number of people received into prison and the average length of sentence that they actually serve ( sometimes known as effective sentence length : Fitzmaurice and Pease , 1992 : 575 ) . |
| 8 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , if we 're busy at work I can see that having to try and explain all the complexities of the London Metal Exchange to someone who knows absolutely nothing about it is going to be a real drag . ’ |
| 10 | Can you suggest a special cleaner I can use that will not spoil the colour ? |
| 11 | In his early work we can see that Foucault 's position involves a remarkable development of Althusser 's hints that art can function as a privileged category that provides an ‘ internal distance ’ from ideology by relating histories , writing reports . |
| 12 | From the above passage we can see that an examination of the production , circulation and consumption of the total social product presents different problems from those posed by the movement of a single capital . |
| 13 | You can erm by word of mouth recommendations it means that we , we have to spend less money on advertising , now that means that in the long run we can pass that on to the client like yourself |
| 14 | With hindsight I can see that I was already predisposed , given the right circumstances , to become anorexic . |
| 15 | There 's no place you can go that I ca n't follow . ’ |
| 16 | If you want to make the point you can add that you have already spoken to the Personnel Department about pay and conditions . |
| 17 | when you use your imagination you can imagine that you 're somewhere else ca n't you ? |
| 18 | For BSL and its community we can see that both of these opportunities may be less available to hearing learners . |
| 19 | On this basis we can say that the vast majority of families with an unskilled manual worker as sole earner were at best only marginally above that line . |
| 20 | In so far as we consider Bukharin 's theory of equilibrium in relation to his ideas on the theory of capitalist economic crisis we can see that contradiction is a key element in explaining it . |
| 21 | In the first instance we can suggest that individuals will enter into organisations from a diverse range of social , economic and educational backgrounds which will give them different perspectives and different values . |
| 22 | But by looking at the clues of the building we can see that it was there . |
| 23 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 24 | An enchanting Greek relief ( metope or section of a frieze ) from Reggio ( Rhegium ) with two running or dancing nymphs ( fig. 25 ) shows in its sophisticated movement and modelling that it belongs later in the century , but from the fall of the hair we can see that here too the faces were turned towards us . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Turning now to the issue of occupational differentiation we can see that those occupations which are generally accorded the title of professions base their claims to special status on a number of grounds which together or separately might be used by any other occupational group . |
| 27 | Following J. S. Coleman 's terminology we can say that ‘ the effect of political interest on awareness of opinion polls was 41 per cent ’ in the pre-Campaign Wave . |
| 28 | Without any hesitation we can say that God is the answer to all doubt and that the largest part of doubting comes simply from ignorance of what God has said and done . |
| 29 | In this case we can calculate that the average output per obverse die must have been between 23,000 and 47,000 . |
| 30 | And equally in our new case we can say that your belief is unjustified because nothing you can point to suggests that this is a case where your belief is true rather than one of the ( admittedly rarer but still ) indistinguishable ( to you ) cases where it is false . |