Example sentences of "can [verb] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast . |
| 2 | Erm , well I think I can reassure that it is the latter . |
| 3 | A dog may well think that his master is at the door : but unless a dog masters a language it is hard to see how he can think that he is thinking that his master is at the door . |
| 4 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 5 | For example , if a patient confesses to you his anxiety about a forthcoming operation and asks you questions about the procedure , you can explain that you are new to the ward and unable to answer his questions adequately . |
| 6 | can presume that it it 's going to involve as a whole so it will have some |
| 7 | Er I do n't know if I can answer that I suspect not . |
| 8 | I knew Moore for many years and can testify that he was a master of lifelike representation . |
| 9 | I 've watched over her in all those sewery parts of the night , and can testify that she does n't move . |
| 10 | If Shostakovich 's cycle of 15 symphonies can be said to represent a musical thread passing through the whole of the composer 's public life , then it can argued that his cycle of 15 string quartets represents the private persona of the man behind the mask from the beginning of his personal anguish in the late 1930s until his death in 1975 . |
| 11 | Alternatively checks can be built into the system that restrict the availability of certain specific products unless the potential users can demonstrate that they are suitably equipped . |
| 12 | Theoretically , they can only both be true if we can demonstrate that they truthfully reflect a genuinely contradictory reality , in terms of their competing contributions to the structure and dynamic of a complex system of ideas and propositions , established to theorize that reality . |
| 13 | The Act includes a " citizen-suit " provision , under which individuals can challenge violations of the law , providing they can demonstrate that they will in some way be harmed by the violation . |
| 14 | If the Wisconsin group can demonstrate that their scheme works , they could go back every year to make more holes and enlarge the detector . |
| 15 | A spokesman for the Amazonian Kayapo Indians , Payacan , says that scientists will be welcome if they can demonstrate that their activities will bring benefits to the Indians , but he adds that : " lots of scientists just come and ask and ask and ask and then go away and we never hear about their results " . |
| 16 | committee and that on behalf of West Sussex as a whole , we should grasp that responsibility , make it clear and I 'm not talking about the emergency arrangements which we 're coping with quite adequately it seems to me erm but I 'm talking about the coordination and overview of all the er contributing factors erm so that we can demonstrate that there is ultimately one body who can take er a view of these matters er ensure that there are not grey areas in future and to er initiate er action wherever it may be dealt with necessary . |
| 17 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |
| 18 | When you are playing a game of Monopoly with someone you may not be able to predict his strategy or the roll of the dice but you can predict that he will stick to the rules of the game . |
| 19 | No one who reads such books can doubt that they are composed by those who find novel-writing , in the most flattering sense of the word , easy : the sheer fertility of the school forbids any other interpretation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We all have a great deal of business to do with our heavenly Father and it is in the security of God 's home that we can know that we belong and are special . |
| 22 | We can know that we have done our best and be willing to learn from our mistakes . |
| 23 | Employing those conceptions , we can ask how we can know that we have succeeded in referring to anything , and how we can know that we have come up with an accurate description of what we have referred to . |
| 24 | Employing those conceptions , we can ask how we can know that we have succeeded in referring to anything , and how we can know that we have come up with an accurate description of what we have referred to . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Firstly , you can know that you are an OK person because you are the most fantastically designed , most wonderfully advanced and most incredibly complicated part of God 's world ! |
| 27 | Hence you can know that you are sitting reading even though you do not know that you are not asleep in bed , dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 28 | ‘ But no one can know that who breathes upon the earth . ’ |
| 29 | Hence the importance of the residential and extracurricular activity — above all occasions and activities in which the teenager can know that someone is unobtrusively and undemandingly interested in them . |
| 30 | 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 . |