Example sentences of "we can [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can estimate that total market demand for electrical goods will rise by ( 2.0 O 4% ) = 8% next year to 1.08 O $5 million = $5,400,000 . |
| 2 | we can differentiate that with respect to X. |
| 3 | We can locate that earlier discussion within the context of power by arguing that membership of such groups can confer power upon individuals , particularly if that group has status and prestige . |
| 4 | The same is true of the coinage of medieval Europe : we can tell that a coin is , say , Spanish or English from the inscription , which usually refers to the kingdom in question , but the date may well be far from apparent . |
| 5 | We can tell that the writer is eager to take us to the climax . |
| 6 | We can tell that the primary visual areas in rats and monkeys come from the same primordial tissue in the embryonic nervous system , but this is n't surprising since all of the cortex arises from this same region . |
| 7 | We can tell that the window broke because there is glass on the ground . |
| 8 | In the sentence completion task , children were asked to complete sentence fragments which , for deductive items , were of the form : We can tell that the pillow burst because … |
| 9 | Anyone can work out who the ‘ subspecies ’ Marxomanni , Mussolimini and Swastici are meant to represent , but they do not really play an important part in the story , since we can feel that John , the Pilgrim , is not really tempted or overwhelmed by them , any more than Lewis ever felt the slightest inclination to become a Maminst or a Fascist . |
| 10 | We can conjecture that some of the slaves had bought themselves to serfdom ; that penury had compelled the free to sell their freedom for bread . |
| 11 | Imagine , for example , that two people have an identical dream — for the sake of argument we can conjecture that it concerns standing on an ants ' nest . |
| 12 | Now we can announce that Dennis Hurst of Wigan is the winner of the Koch clamping system , with his smoothing plane |
| 13 | ‘ So that we can flatten that Swire Sugden and post him back through his letter-box , ’ Otley said , crushing his bread roll into a poultice . |
| 14 | How much better it will be to say to people , ‘ We can ensure that the children you have will be the best possible children , the ones with the best inheritance , the ones who will make the world a really good place to live in instead of the misery it so often is . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think we can ensure that he does . |
| 16 | ‘ We can ensure that the public has insurance cover ideally suited to their requirements , ’ he says optimistically . |
| 17 | We must ask how we can ensure that the health service reaches ever higher targets in areas of great social difficulty . ’ |
| 18 | It is only through collective effort and strength that we can ensure that a fair deal can be achieved for Bank Officials . |
| 19 | And very importantly to the accountant , the way that we can ensure that we maintain the integrity of the accounting data , is by exploiting checksum techniques in the database to ensure that the only valid way of u of updating the accounting data is through the accounting application and that 's it 's therefore properly secure and properly audit trailed . |
| 20 | A general problem that might be explored in the other place is how , if there is to be such a separation , we can ensure that fruitful , easy relationships continue to exist . |
| 21 | This reduces to , Hence , by defining N ( d 1 ) as the reciprocal of the hedge ratio we can ensure that the value of the hedged portfolio does not change during the next time period . |
| 22 | Together , we can ensure that general SVQs and Skillstart are as responsive as possible to the needs of our customers — relevant , coherent , and practicable . |
| 23 | Iain Robertson , chief executive of Highlands and Islands Enterprise , explained : ‘ By having all types of training meeting one common standard , we can ensure that a school leaver in Caithness with a training credit , a college student in Inverness or Stornoway , and the employer of a trainee in Shetland undertaking a Scottish Vocational Qualification , all benefit from further education and training to a standard which is underpinned by a recognised set of quality measurements . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For example , in P3/T3 , we have ( columns one and three are critical ) and we can verify that 0 > θ in P3/T4 as asserted ( only column two is now critical ) . |
| 26 | Curran reveals : ‘ We 've set ourselves a target of four clean sheets for the last four matches — if we can achieve that we 're certain of at least four points . ’ |
| 27 | I mean I know we , we , we can dispute that this telepa telepathic communication is actually rather far-fetched , but it is quite dramatic |
| 28 | Walter and Marjory probably lived at Dundonald Castle and we can presume that before and after their marriage , Robert Bruce would visit the castle on his peregrinations in north and central Ayrshire . |
| 29 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 30 | 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 |