Example sentences of "we can [adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can thus only strictly compare the district elections of 1990 with those at the same point of the cycle tour years ago in the 114 local authorities where no material change to either boundaries or the electoral system has taken place . |
| 2 | The working men for whom this institution was created had a thirst for education in a way we can scarcely any longer imagine today . |
| 3 | However , we can nearly as easily do the sum for the theoretical elastic breaking strain , and if we do this , we are apt to find that the answer we get is very roughly the same for any solid , almost irrespective of its chemical entity . |
| 4 | We can no longer smugly claim that literary criticism is concerned only with ‘ the best ’ expression of the period , because what is best is dependent on a host of preconceptions about what we wish to learn about Renaissance writing . |
| 5 | We can no longer realistically do that in the open systems world . |
| 6 | But it does n't matter , because we can just as easily get married tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | We can just as readily conclude that there is just one type of latent inhibition ; that the change induced by exposure to the stimulus always tends to dissipate during the exposure — test interval ; and that the size of the interval required for such a loss of latent inhibition to become apparent grows longer as the strength of the effect induced by the initial exposure phase is increased . |
| 8 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 9 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 10 | In our concern to manage the lives of others and our intention to do this in the best interests of all , we can too often simply define those who cry out in despair as moaners , as ‘ deviants ’ , ‘ defectives ’ , or as the lazy ones who have n't played the game in the way they should . |