Example sentences of "[verb] we can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At every stage in the communication process we can detect the powerful influence of culture . |
| 2 | When we start to take responsibility for our thoughts and begin to see that every negative thought has a negative return , we realise we can use life like a beautiful game . |
| 3 | They 'll know we can speak English , at least . " |
| 4 | How the fuck does he know we can see red and green ? |
| 5 | How do we know we can trust you ? |
| 6 | How come we can send a spacecraft to Venus or write the Bible on a microchip yet remain incapable of operating a sophisticated transportation network when the temperature drops just a few degrees below zero ? |
| 7 | Now there 's a new twist : how come we can know when a missile is even threatening to fall on Tel Aviv or Riyadh or Dharan , yet remain ignorant of when the next train will leave Waterloo station — or where it is heading ? |
| 8 | ‘ Say we can meet somewhere and start again . ’ |
| 9 | If you say we can do the right , alright ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Er five , say we can have five here , you can have twenty five , over here somewhere , |
| 12 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 13 | As the drama develops we can make " emotional maps " , " time lines " : all ways of making the drama work more concrete , of deepening the work and broadening our perspectives on it . |
| 14 | ‘ If you disagree we can fight over it . ’ |
| 15 | Once we know the amounts involved we can calculate the masses of reactants and products . |
| 16 | With sponsors and entrepreneurs to create what the international public wants we can create the jobs the people of Britain so sorely need , and a world wide reputation for excellence which can have very wide political benefits . |
| 17 | If , though , we place a zero in each cell of the grid before the simulation starts we can use the code ‘ 0 ’ to mean that the cell is unoccupied . |
| 18 | Then the set unc is non-empty and so [ since we are assuming W holds we can conclude that ] T has a least element t , say . |
| 19 | I was in apartments for 10 years , and when one has lived under those conditions it makes one contented to know we can use plenty of water . |
| 20 | For example , if we consider one of the stories which Thorndyke ( 1977 ) used we can see that it has a high degree of internal organisation . |
| 21 | Well let us explore it first and see what the issues are and then if there 's any dispute then , then you can call another meeting at the February sales meeting we can discuss it |
| 22 | ‘ Well , yeah , ’ said a nome , ‘ but , well , Nisodemus says we can stop this thing just by believing we can . |
| 23 | Mum says we can stay the ten minutes as long as we ai n't a nuisance . ’ |
| 24 | Without preamble , he said , ‘ Helen says we can talk in that little room through there , where we wo n't be disturbed . ’ |
| 25 | The only thing that you have to do Lauren , if we phone up , if daddy says we can go , you 'll have to phone up Victoria tonight . |
| 26 | There is a school of thought ( embodied by Dale Spender 's book Man-Made Language ) that says we can think of language itself as being ‘ male ’ . |
| 27 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke says we can do a Roman banquet so we got a book from the library about what sort of food they ate . |
| 28 | So from your income , that we must have , says we can do all those things , and have our standard of living . |
| 29 | THE Northern League 's Easter ‘ Ground Hoppers ’ weekend gathers pace : there 's even been an enquiry from Cork and a chap in Birmingham who says we can use his name to guarantee Northern League hospitality . |
| 30 | She says we can thwart ageing by understanding our bodies and gentle exercising . |