Example sentences of "[indef pn] can [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody can seriously suggest that we turn back the clock entirely and return to the world of Constable 's Haywain , where there was a good deal of misery and hunger amidst all that beauty . |
| 2 | Nobody can seriously propose that all promises should become enforceable ; to abolish the doctrine of consideration , therefore , is simply to require the Courts to begin all over again the task of deciding what promises are to be enforceable . |
| 3 | Both dramatic playing and performance use dramatic metaphors , abstractions which immediately qualify the kind , intensity and degree of emotional response — one can reasonably assume that neither the actor on stage nor the child in the classroom is actually going to experience murderous intent , overwhelming grief , spiritual ecstasy or sexual arousal during the drama experience . |
| 4 | By intervening in this way , one can reasonably assume that this request can be regarded as making an exception to the general rules — implicit or explicit — of identification . |
| 5 | One can reasonably say that Balboa 's triumph ultimately gave us San Diego and Los Angeles , Santa Barbara and Yerba Buena , San Ysidro and San Onofre , San Clemente and San Francisco . |
| 6 | One can reasonably say that British opera-goers in 1945 knew a lot fewer works than their modern counterparts and knew them , by and large , in less good and faithful performances . |
| 7 | Behind the weathering , however , one can clearly see that it is a work of primitive technique , simply , even crudely , shaped from the shallow rectangular block . |
| 8 | One might have suspected them of being adverbs that simply lacked the ordinary morphological marking , as in : ( 12 ) Grandmother took the corner too fast However , one can conclusively show that this is not so by finding examples where the predicate qualifiers fill a position which can also be occupied by a true adverb ; here we observe that the effect is strikingly different . |
| 9 | One can also note that these 15 cases , are pyr-pur ( 9 cases ) or pur-pur ( 6 cases ) . |
| 10 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 11 | One can also add that St Paul , who plumbs the depths of desolation but also knows the heights of consolation and joy , provided Montini with a practical spirituality that kept him going throughout his long ‘ hidden life ’ in the Secretariat of State ( 1925–54 ) , his pastoral ministry in Milan ( 1955–63 ) and finally , his Petrine ministry . |
| 12 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 13 | So one can well imagine that Grimes blew into Sadler 's Wells like an Aldeburgh gale , changing the coastline , breaking down bridges , and generally modifying the landscape by its sheer force and energy . |
| 14 | Malcolmson ( 1984 : 126 ) argues that ‘ an essential feature of the world Williamson is interested in [ … ] is not one in which one can simply assume that economic efficiency will win out in the end ’ . |
| 15 | However , one can not conclude that the committees have a sufficiently important role either : |
| 16 | But one can not assume that an everyday ‘ coherent ’ sense of self is readily available . |
| 17 | In such circumstances one can not assume that there is a single goal , such as profit maximization , that represents the interests of the firm . |
| 18 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |
| 19 | Although this proposition is unlikely ever to be falsified , nevertheless one can not maintain that it can not in principle be false . |
| 20 | P/O Atherton was a very experienced pilot , with a second pilot as navigator , so one can not accept that they could be so far off course as to reach the target thirty minutes later , especially as the fires started in the docks by the bombing raid of Blenheims of 59 Squadron could be seen from many miles away . |
| 21 | Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later . |
| 22 | Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players . |
| 23 | The two brothers of Armagnac , count and archbishop , thought Grilly ‘ are so oppressed … that in the end they will be compelled to submit by some contrived method … and one can not believe that they can withstand these afflictions much longer . |
| 24 | The old-fashioned objected that it was dangerous to eyesight , and that those who read by candlelight did not need spectacles , but one can not imagine that Jane Austen was among them . |
| 25 | However , if people challenge the basic principle of utility one can not say that they are mistaken in any kind of factual way , or that they are necessarily irrational . |
| 26 | So one can not say that grapheme-phoneme conversion is the way non-words are read aloud . |
| 27 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 28 | One can not deny that there are real threats to British broadcasting but , at the same time , it would be a mistake to label all threats as a ‘ crisis ’ . |
| 29 | But one can not deny that a more scientific decision would have been to try to make the return of the offending plates obligatory , so that only the accurate , authentic figures were permitted circulation . |
| 30 | Certainly , one can not argue that all computations carried out by animals must be effected symbolically . |