Example sentences of "[conj] we can [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I know a special place , in the campagna — in the country — where you will see vineyards and ancient castles and rolling hills , where we can drink a wine that the gods would have kept for themselves if they could . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Money will only be invested in ideas where we can see a gain , ’ said Ken . |
| 3 | There is no place , for example , where we can have a coffee-break with them during the morning . |
| 4 | Is there anywhere around here where we can have a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 5 | We 've got a lot of friends whom we can talk to about a policy generally , and where we can put a word in . |
| 6 | The span of possibilities here is enormous : we can follow Stravinsky in adapting Medieval forms ; we can write songs which are pure melody ; or we can use a form which ignores musical values , taking the guise of a word-drama . |
| 7 | We can either accept that God is sovereign and recognise that this is part of his plan , or we can have a pity party and completely neutralise everything God wants to do through us . |
| 8 | Certain psychological processes have something of this quality , too , and although we can achieve a degree of insight and control over them , they need to be handled with care . |
| 9 | Could all teams also inform us of the proposed date and venue of their tie so that we can send a photographer when possible . |
| 10 | But I do not believe that we can assemble a majority for anything as negative as ‘ get the Tories out ’ . |
| 11 | It is essential that flora writers should make contact with external GIS providers , so that we can choose a system which will be related to their own needs . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that we can fit a rule concerning evidentiary findings into our traditional terminology . |
| 13 | Now that there is every reason to believe that we can build a fusion reactor there is growing attention to technology . |
| 14 | And I do feel that by just following a few simple rules like that we can avoid a lot of the problems that come into our advice centre . |
| 15 | The savings are so significant that we can pay a specialist mailing company to envelope , sort , bag and post the magazine for us ( this is a standard practice , very few organisations have sufficient staff to do this mammoth task , we certainly have n't ) . |
| 16 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 17 | The thing is that we can design a string , try it out and decide we like it , but Norman can actually take pictures of that sound so we can file it , compare it with the results from other strings and start to understand why we like that particular one . |
| 18 | This means that we can tell a star 's temperature from the spectrum of its light . ) |
| 19 | ‘ Your reasoning ’ , he says , ‘ is the same as saying that we can get a rose through planting a noxious weed … |
| 20 | As far as engineering applications are concerned the most remarkable feature of the curve is that we can get a flux density even in the absence of all external agents . |
| 21 | We take any four boys , and we concentrate on providing them with first-class , intensive training , and my contention is that we can produce a team in every way as competitive as Greycoats ' . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We presented a revised budget to the bank in June and are confident that we can produce a result by the year-end that will ensure that future long-term security of the company . |
| 23 | Perhaps we will refer later to the blatant dishonesty — I am sorry , I must watch my language ; let us say something bordering on the dishonest — of the suggestion that we can have a banding system which avoids for ever the problem of revaluation . |
| 24 | Notice that we can have a difference intermediate language ( and microcoded interpreter ) for each high-level language , designed for the efficient and compact representation of the primitive elements of that language . |
| 25 | ‘ You must come to my office , as soon as possible , so that we can establish a working relationship . ’ |
| 26 | It is perhaps in the surviving pre-Conquest books more than anywhere that we can find a clue to Lanfranc 's impatient determination to make a completely new start with the monastic life at Canterbury . |
| 27 | It is only when we begin to face an illness that we can find a cure . |
| 28 | Imagine also that we can define a set of ‘ iso-vote ’ lines : these are similar to indifference curves and each one shows combinations of inflation and unemployment which would yield the government equal popularity . |
| 29 | Have we any reason to suppose that yet another solution of the problem is to be found , and that we can introduce a precedent so that the native subject races may remain in existence , unfused with ours , and yet in subjection ? |
| 30 | One of the great advantages of this method of proceeding is that we can guarantee a debate about Scottish questions . |