Example sentences of "[vb -s] that we can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lyotard holds that we can best understand the nature of the unconscious through examining precisely how it is not structured like a language , that the most important criterion of demarcation of the unconscious from the ego lies in the ways that the former does not operate as does language . |
| 2 | He derives from MP his holism in the theory of meaning , but insists that we can not account for language learning as an empirical activity , unless we allow that some sentences have a determinate meaning and are therefore independently ( strongly ) verifiable . |
| 3 | He agrees that we can ask what justifies these beliefs ; but to do so would mean that we no longer treated them as having this special status . |
| 4 | But it so happens that we can compare the situation during the years 1070 to 1123 with a similar train of events at Canterbury just a hundred years later . |
| 5 | Now it so happens that we can make the same substitution of forms in an otherwise completely different sentence , producing an exactly parallel change of meaning : |
| 6 | The Yasa says that we can enslave only those we conquer in battle . |
| 7 | The Labour party says that we can not argue that a single person should pay less than a family next door with several working adults . |
| 8 | Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant . |
| 9 | ‘ I like to look for the distinctive features of a location , features that we can key into to get a synergy of strengths , ’ she says . |
| 10 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 11 | The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges . |
| 12 | The fact that some of the activities and functions of governmental agencies are subject to the rules of private law shows that we can not ( contrary to the tentative definition of public law suggested earlier ) answer this question solely in terms of whether we are dealing with a governmental agency . |
| 13 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 14 | Peirce 's first philosophy requires that we can formulate substantive conceptions of truth and reference without recourse to the special sciences . |
| 15 | Since θ for one tableau is equal to θ for the next , when increasing 0 , this ensures that we can not repeat a tableau . |
| 16 | This ensures that we can supply the complete spectrum of materials to all our customers in the building trade . |
| 17 | At first it seems that we can draw a sharp distinction between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 18 | Well , it looks as though the Queen Mother is off to Scotland for the day , but that wo n't affect us , so it seems that we can go ahead . |
| 19 | In conclusion , it seems that we can not accept without question the dramatic increase in recorded crime as corresponding to a real increase in victimization of the same proportions . |
| 20 | It seems that we can not be the fairest of them all . |
| 21 | This poem hints that we can go beyond the form of the ritual only.to be horrified by the realization that there is nothing there , or there is only some petty squalor , meaning having receded out of sight if it was ever present in the first place . |
| 22 | But if the Home Secretary feels that we can have more , er , er , police officers , why does n't he give us the money so we can employ them . |
| 23 | If I am right about what the fluke genes are doing , it follows that we can legitimately speak of fluke genes as influencing snail bodies , in just the same sense as snail genes influence snail bodies . |
| 24 | — From this it follows that we can not be dealing with the same concept of experience here . |
| 25 | It follows that we can not make up a square matrix X of eigenvectors to satisfy ( 8 ) ; for this reason the matrix B is said to be defective . |
| 26 | It follows that we can provide the answer to a third problem , ( c ) : the successive evaluation of the reciprocals of the leading minors of a matrix A until unc is achieved . |
| 27 | When a repeated eigenvalue 1 makes the characteristic matrix doubly degenerate , we know ( see ( 1.21.14 ) ) that the Sylvester expansion of the system matrix A is unc It follows that we can use the power method to find 1 ; postmultiplication by co gives in the limit , when r is sufficiently large , say s , unc We thus find 1 without difficulty ; but the determination of z11 + z22 requires further consideration . |
| 28 | It follows that we can form no clear notion of spatial or temporal order among existents with uncompleted life-cycles ; and this , in reality , means not at all . |
| 29 | It follows that we can describe the human transactions between students and staff that constitute the processes of higher education without mentioning ‘ the academic community ’ . |
| 30 | If we measure expected income in accordance with our estimate of the process determining income , that is by equation ( 3.17 ) ; and if consumption expenditure is determined in accordance with equation ( 3.6 ) then , as we have shown , it follows that we can write C t as : |