Example sentences of "can [vb infin] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 2 | No reasonable doubt can exist that the School will attain under his supervision a much higher rank in the estimation of the Inhabitants of Stockport and that it will prove of very great importance and advantage to its community . |
| 3 | I can promise that the Government will do no less . |
| 4 | I can promise that the Department will take vigorous action where there are good cases . |
| 5 | ‘ Ca n't speak for the food , that 's Kay 's department , but I think I can promise that the tipple will be up to par . ’ |
| 6 | It follows that if a contractor can demonstrate that the resources available and those intended for use on site would enable the works to be finished early , the contractor would have good grounds for claiming reimbursement of additional costs if he or she was thwarted by the client 's delay . |
| 7 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 8 | But the associative theory can predict that the mechanisms that normally produce acquired distinctiveness might fail to do so , or might even produce negative transfer with certain sorts of test task . |
| 9 | There is an immense difference between the political systems of fascism and of liberal democracy , either of which may exist in a capitalist society ; and no one can doubt that the history of the world would have been very different if the fascist powers had been victorious in the Second World War . |
| 10 | Given Cadbury 's peerless reputation for research and development , and its continued commitment to high levels of marketing support , which in Time Out 's case includes a £5m advertising blitz through GGT , few can doubt that the company 's £35 sales target for the brand will be achieved . |
| 11 | Nobody can doubt that the Massaliotes explored seas and coasts . |
| 12 | It can direct that the application be re-heard by a magistrates ' court or it can make an order itself which will then be treated as an order of the magistrates ' court for the purposes of enforcement and variation ( s94(9) ) . |
| 13 | The information which appears on Skymaster comes from the same computers at Heathrow which churn out the printed stuff so you can guarantee that the data is accurate and changes reach you faster than they normally would on the paper system . |
| 14 | With the support of the likes of Prince Charles and Yehudi Menuhin , the appeal directors hope it wo n't be long before the they can guarantee that the Malvern Hills will forever echo to the sound of Elgar . |
| 15 | If you want , you can specify that the pose should be frightening , funny , difficult or amazing . |
| 16 | I can repeat that the IoT would be very happy for the Faculty to treat the IoT examination as the necessary qualification for its members to become Faculty Fellows . |
| 17 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 18 | Since the ‘ Keynesian ’ sees no reason to expect money incomes to be directly affected by the increase in the money supply , we can assume that the transactions and precautionary demands remain unchanged at first . |
| 19 | This is an approximate calculation so we can assume that the density and specific heat capacity of the reaction mixture are the same as that for water . |
| 20 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
| 21 | One is that it is doubtful in the extreme whether one can assume that the legislature always intended the tribunal to be the arbiter as to what the contents of the bracket ought to be . |
| 22 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 23 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 24 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 25 | Initially the subject will attend to a new stimulus but will then gradually lose interest and start to look away ( habituation ) ; if the stimulus is then changed in some way and if this causes a re-awakening of interest ( dishabituation ) then we can assume that the baby has detected the change . |
| 26 | Unfortunately there are no German records in existence ( perhaps something may now turn up after the reunification ! ) but we can assume that the result of the raid fell short of causing significant damage to the German war machine . |
| 27 | We can assume that the processing resources available for language production are limited , and attempts to hold items for future as well as current constituents would result in an unnecessary drain on processing resources . |
| 28 | One can feel that the emotions in these novels are very deep as they seem to bounce off every page to reveal yet another new anguish as the protagonists ' sad , poverty stricken lives unfold . |
| 29 | ‘ We can ensure that the public has insurance cover ideally suited to their requirements , ’ he says optimistically . |
| 30 | Before submitting the package for approval , the manager of the package can ensure that the package is in an ‘ approvable ’ condition , ( in a similar way to running the scanner before attempting to enter a module ) . |