Example sentences of "can [vb infin] [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , well I think I can reassure that it is the latter . |
| 2 | No one can doubt that it is far better to aim to prevent job problems arising than to try to cure them by means of a law suit . |
| 3 | No animal can know that it is in a current unless there is some stationary object , such as a river bank , to serve as a reference point . |
| 4 | Encouraged by the demonstrated efficacy of CBT with disorders such as depression , the social worker can consider that it is at least plausible to use similar strategies with other client difficulties . |
| 5 | Hence one can expect that it is prone to the canyon problem . |
| 6 | In such circumstances , the new Kinnock approach — as long as he can show that it is not irredeemably inflationary — might appear quite attractive to people who would not otherwise have considered voting Labour . |
| 7 | It er , first of all I can confirm that an announcement is being made today er secondly secondly secondly I can confirm that it is not usual for such announcements to be made by way of oral statement . |
| 8 | Standing on the south bank and looking across the river at the village , one can see that it is still well-wooded with only the church spire and a small number of houses visible through the trees . |
| 9 | From this , we can see that it is possible to control both the rate and angle of descent by varying the pitch ( Fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 10 | With such an Army Iran can resist Communist pressures and build the country into a showcase to so that other peoples can see that it is possible to work with the West and get more effective support than countries such as Egypt receive . " |
| 11 | Imagine a department which can see that it is going to overspend its budget . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , the other consequence of it is it promotes their reproductive success and you can erm you can see that it is indeed an effect of testosterone if you castrated live longer than uncastrated males , and the earlier they 're castrated , the longer they live . |
| 14 | So you , you can see that it is a concern |
| 15 | You may not yourself be in the habit of taking this small precaution to avoid knocking at some highly inappropriate moment , but I always have been and can vouch that it is common practice amongst many professionals . |
| 16 | Still , taking it for what it is , I can report that it is on the whole satisfactorily performed , due mainly to the merits of the soloists : Barbara Schlick 's soprano rings out finely in the wonderful air with cello , ‘ What passion can not Music raise or quell ’ ( I give titles in the familiar English rather than the German used here , of course ) , and again in her paean of the organ , though in the final chorus the sense and the noble simplicity of the solo soprano in turn with the choir , a real piece of English eccentricity , somehow becomes merely odd in German . |
| 17 | Without having suffered the turmoil of a leadership contest , Labour can boast that it is better prepared for an election than the Conservatives . |
| 18 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 19 | At other times , however , reason can correct the appearances of sense ; from the waxing and waning of the moon , according to how it is illuminated by the sun , we can deduce that it is a globe , and not the flat disc it appears to be . |
| 20 | From the analysis of Section 6–4 we can deduce that it is the conjunction of the distortion with non-unitary income elasticities that is especially important . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | So , to the conclusion drawn from European , American and British examples that the industrial co-operative is demonstrably a fully effective form of organisation , we can add that it is not necessarily subject to any special limitations of size or kind . |
| 23 | Then open up each plug in turn so you can check that it is correctly wired up , that the terminal screws are secure ( they can easily work loose in time ) , that the cord grip is working properly , and lastly , that the correct fuse is fitted . |
| 24 | If there is such an outlet in the neighbourhood , it will be a more satisfactory source than a mail-order nursery , because you can see what you are buying , you can check that it is the plant as named on the label , and you can make sure of getting a strong healthy specimen free from pest or disease . |
| 25 | One can accept that it is a complex and difficult issue as to which target language is acceptable , but clearly deaf people 's abilities are not being realised in contact with the hearing community . |
| 26 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This aspect of Relativity is difficult fully to understand , but in simplest terms we can say that it is impossible to consider whatever is happening at this moment on & alpha Centauri , about 4.5 lightyears away , as sharing a ‘ now ’ with whatever is happening here . |
| 29 | Thus the pleasures of heroin can be dismissed summarily as counting against , rather than for , the action of taking heroin , if we can say that it is a highly impure pleasure ( liable to lead to much wretchedness later ) . |
| 30 | Indeed I think we can say that it is worse than the draft statement because some of the good points in the original have been removed . |