Example sentences of "we ca [adv] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Of course , we ca n't waste good food . ’ |
| 2 | We ca n't waste precious resources at this unearthly hour . ’ |
| 3 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 4 | We can control how hard we accelerate ; we ca n't control black holes . ’ |
| 5 | But we ca n't do inverted loops or high negative G manouvres |
| 6 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 7 | We ca n't let personal feelings interfere with duty : you know that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And of course they wo n't be quite as effective because we ca n't use handwritten cards . |
| 9 | We ca n't promise instant solutions , but we can promise to listen . |
| 10 | This does n't mean to say that that we ca n't invite other people to a special once a year meeting of this transportation working party to deal with cycle issues . |
| 11 | ‘ Now , I want to put a bit of steel through the side and remind them we ca n't have nice games all the time . |
| 12 | It 's just we ca n't , we ca n't have we ca n't have obvious alcohol absolute on the rocks |
| 13 | We ca n't afford modern technology now , we 've got one of these old wind-up gramophones . |
| 14 | But we 're a small country now : we ca n't afford big mistakes . ’ |
| 15 | Quite rightly so but we ca n't get complacent health and safety is one of the most important issues of all affecting our members . |