Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] we can " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginning of most written sentences fits a pattern or template which we can represent like this : |
| 2 | In some ways they are even better than our own , for a squid can distinguish polarised light which we can not do and their retinas have a finer structure which means , almost certainly , that they can distinguish finer detail than we can . |
| 3 | We tend to think of animal vision only in terms of that part of the spectrum of light which we can see ; and yet we know that the spectrum extends far beyond this . |
| 4 | Within the Old Testament itself we can see the beginnings of a move to exalt Jacob and damn his brother . |
| 5 | But there is in fact a very interesting er story archaeological story which we can deduce from the outside of this building . |
| 6 | But that is another story which we can not yet look back on . |
| 7 | Yellow Pages or some of the local journals or whatever and will have a copy in existence which we can use . |
| 8 | grant him every advantage which we can conceive a white to possess over the native ; concede that in the struggle for existence his chance of a long life will be much superior to that of the native chiefs ; yet from all these admissions , there does not follow the conclusion that , after a limited or unlimited number of generations , the inhabitants of the island will be white . |
| 9 | Lewis had his two slender volumes of verse , and Tolkien his learned edition of Sir Gawain and the Green knight and his article on Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meith-had ( which combines deep linguistic learning with a justly famous account of the world of this West Midland prose writer which we can recognize as a foretaste of the Hobbit 's native Shire ) . |
| 10 | The recommendations er , Chairman , are that the , that we should support a payment of five thousand pounds to business link which we can find funds from existing resources that we 've got . |
| 11 | They exhibit to an exaggerated degree that intolerance and sense of unease we all show when faced with information or experience which we can not readily assimilate and ‘ make sense of ’ ( as we say ) by fitting it into our existing knowledge and categories . |
| 12 | Equally , the depth and directness of experience which we can supply practically in the classroom varies . |
| 13 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 14 | Indeed it is an important priority to generate new data which make ethnicity visible , because on the basis of existing evidence it is difficult to distinguish whether the different patterns of support which we can see in minority ethnic kin groups are likely to persist as patterns of settlement stabilize . |
| 15 | Er you 'll find that we do have actually have a calculator which we can send out with a retirement pack and that actually gives you an aide-memoire to actually remind you about the things that you might forget erm with regard to erm things like er holidays er erm say , medical expenses , er fuel expenses , erm club fees , T V licence , all those things . |
| 16 | The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore . |
| 17 | We have got to face up to the Warner Report as well , which is to do with staffing in community homes , and again , that 's an issue which we can pick up later , as we go into detailed reports . |
| 18 | There are thus three distinct frames of reference which we can bring to bear on the concept of basic or general education : knowledge , culture and student development . |
| 19 | The concepts mental lexicon , lexical entry and lexical access provide a vocabulary which we can use when discussing how words are perceived and produced . |
| 20 | It is on the borderline between a true signal , indicating the nature of the coming activity and establishing specific relations within which it is intended to occur , and that type of signal which is not preparatory or externally indicative but is integrated within the form of a work : a type which we can distinguish as conventions , and which is so fundamentally important that it will be separately discussed , below . |
| 21 | One form of suffering which we can avoid is the surprise of being persecuted . |
| 22 | It 's not a question of what a company can do for a day centre , or what an environmental group can do for a business , it 's a question what we can all do together , for the community . |
| 23 | reaction against the survival curves er with the G er pathology grade and the G with the tumour and to see actually the difference which we can , in curves which we can deduct from counting the vascularity . |
| 24 | Now that 's good because it does , it gives us a record which we can refer |
| 25 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 26 | However the report by the trust — Buildings at Risk — highlights the threats to 11 prime examples of Thomson 's work in Glasgow and says the situation is an ‘ embarrassment which we can no longer ignore ’ . |
| 27 | So that we have got a disk which we can put into the machines down there in the computer room , a whole lot of transcriptions that they 've already made . |
| 28 | Now move in a little closer , and your next shot might show just one corner of the square which we can now see includes an attractive little feature : an ancient water-trough into which a cascade of water is pouring from the mouth of a gargoyle-like creature in stone . |
| 29 | The idea that there are forces and necessities in nature is spurious , a piece of mysticism which we can do without . |
| 30 | It brought all the agonies of doubt and self-criticism which we can too easily forget . |