Example sentences of "we can [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we 've squared it up , we can start again from scratch . ’ |
| 2 | For industrial society has made a strange covenant with humanity : it has promised us that we can exist independently of nature , in the gilded cocoon of a technosphere that is no longer tuned to the archaic necessities of seed-time , harvest and the vagaries of the seasons . |
| 3 | We 've also shown this season that we can go away from home and get results . |
| 4 | so and not only that if Gary meets me up the train station we can go straight into town on our own , leave him with Pat . |
| 5 | In drama we can slow down time , we can stop and examine a particular moment , we can go backwards in time . |
| 6 | We can go perhaps to Lords . |
| 7 | ‘ We can go early to bed , ’ he suggested . |
| 8 | This is a world in which we can grow closer to God . |
| 9 | Do we welcome into our midst those people who have developmental disabilities , on order that we can grow together in faith ? |
| 10 | We all set Fridays aside for preparation , which means that we can collaborate closely on course work . |
| 11 | Surely we can do better for people with mental problems and their families ? |
| 12 | There is nothing we can do now except wait . |
| 13 | ‘ ALTHOUGH the contribution of the world we live in to the levels of risk is most obvious for accidents , developments in medical thinking throughout the last two centuries have indicated how by modifying the way we live — originally through general improvements in diet and hygiene , more recently through changes in education and social welfare — we can contribute substantially to prolongation of healthy life or its reduction by increasing smoke pollution and cigarette consumption ’ . |
| 14 | Another project seeks to understand precisely the vagueness of natural language , not only so that we can communicate better with computers , but also because vagueness is a valuable commodity for computation in general . |
| 15 | If we 're able to use it the cold may win us a few days in which to withdraw to bed and grieve gently for ourselves ; if not at least we can weep openly at work , blowing our nose and wiping our eyes , and get a little consideration and sympathy from others for our sad lot . |
| 16 | Both have been chronicled in this book , and perhaps we can say now of Eliot what he once said of another poet , " We also understand the poetry better when we know more about the man . " |
| 17 | And we can join together in groups and as a society to treat other people or other groups very badly indeed . |
| 18 | Our gold and dollar reserves are sound , and we can look forward with confidence to the future — provided that there is no change of Government . |
| 19 | However , by gaining that trust we can look forward with confidence . |
| 20 | We need a government that will help ensure that across the world we can look forward to peace and progress with stability . |
| 21 | However , for smaller data sets an alternative approach is possible and we can look directly at relationships between individuals . |
| 22 | By keeping close to customers , we are better able to service their needs and we can keep ahead of industry trends . |
| 23 | I 'm going to be still working in the City , of course , and so I 'm hoping we can live somewhere near London . ’ |
| 24 | You see if we can get away on holiday earlier this year because the violin exam 's in June or in July we 'll be back . |
| 25 | The more we can get away from miracles , major improbabilities , fantastic coincidences , large chance events , and the more thoroughly we can break large chance events up into a cumulative series of small chance events , the more satisfying to rational minds our explanations will be . |
| 26 | Can erm , do you think Mary we can get together on reply on this ? |
| 27 | Often we can learn more about Britain under the American information law than we can from Whitehall . |