The phrase "can we exclude" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to ask if something can or should be removed or left out of a statement or situation. Example: "Can we exclude the discussion about politics from the meeting agenda?" This means, "Should we not include the discussion about politics in the meeting agenda?".
My question is simply that if we have a fellow evangelical believer who thinks in all honesty that Scripture is consistent with his universalism then, if that universalism is not a threat to any creedal beliefs or central gospel affirmations, can we exclude him from the fold?
Yet Ruth Nussbaum of Proforest, a company specialising in sustainable approaches to forestry, argues that the toughest question is "not, can we get sustainability, but can we exclude illegals?"Besides, many foresters argue that the preserved-in-aspic approach is unnecessarily rigorous and bound to fail.
Media captionProfessor Francois Bochud: "Can we exclude polonium as cause of death?
Nor can we exclude the possible effects of correlated selection on other traits, most notably life history traits.
We cannot exclude an effect of season on the timing of the second wave in 1918, nor can we exclude a role for social interventions in explaining the gap between the first and second waves in 1918.
However, we cannot exclude the involvement of additional signaling pathways also leading to NF-κB activation, nor can we exclude the possibility that MyD88-independent induction of colonic SAA3 expression could be due to downstream pathways other than those involving NF-κB (i.e., MAPK and PI3K pathways).
Even so, the possibility of selection bias due to non-participation can never be excluded; nor can we fully exclude the possibility of residual confounding.
Since ICCAuctions vets lots in advance, he added, "We can exclude anything we're doubtful about".
Because we monitored the cell viability before electrophoresis, we can exclude that cell damage accounts for the low values.
As we thoroughly sampled the plankton community of Lake Nakuru, we can exclude the presence of alternative food sources.
"We can exclude the possibility that this was an accident.
