Example sentences of "[conj] we can [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the particularly important marketing sector where we can provide customer service , the retail network 's results improved , benefiting from the cost cutting , design and efficiency improvements under way throughout BP Oil . |
| 2 | ‘ It has also enabled both of us to measure performance and to identify areas where we can save money , ’ added Anthony . |
| 3 | Erm or we can make application for legal aid to go to court for a residence and contact order now . |
| 4 | We can either freely choose to change , and enjoy the new challenges , or we can resist change until life forces us to grow , through unwelcome problems and traumas . |
| 5 | There are two things we can do with hair on the upper lip , we can either bleach it so that it does n't notice , or we can actually remove it with wax , or we can have electrolysis . |
| 6 | On the one hand , he rejects the idea that we can attain knowledge in the form of demonstrative understanding that certain things must be so , an understanding based on knowledge of the real natures or essences of things . |
| 7 | We patients must be told the unpalatable facts so that we can exert pressure on those who really are responsible for prolonging our pain . |
| 8 | I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree that what we are doing through the national curriculum , and especially in the testing of seven , 11 , 14 and 16-year-olds , will ensure not only that we can monitor progress on standards , but that pupils who are falling behind will be given the assistance that they need to improve . |
| 9 | St Augustine came to the conclusion that we can measure time only if the mind has the power of holding within itself the impression made by things as they pass by even after they are gone . |
| 10 | It has been said that we can regard ATP as a common currency which must be spent to provide energy whenever it is needed — to drive chemical reactions , to cause muscles to contract , or to pump substances across membranes . |
| 11 | This means that we can devise word shapes and various games . |
| 12 | So that we can make money . |
| 13 | I do not think either that we can make sense of the Devil in the language of contemporary philosophy or science ; on the other hand neither do I believe that we should try and invent a modern mythology that makes the Devil more credible and accessible . |
| 14 | What we can do is attempt to get hold of the rules of the game so that we can make sense of a game as it is played . |
| 15 | It is in virtue of such rules that we can make sense of the idea that we are objectively correct to call the new sensation a pain . |
| 16 | I hope that he will be speedy with it so that we can make progress and that he will not read from the document before him . |
| 17 | Indeed , we have all agreed , I take it the recommendations under eight one in order that we can make progress . |
| 18 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 19 | I have a meeting with a software house at ten thirty , Mike is coming in at three thirty to talk about the new book , and tonight 's one of the nights when Yvonne is teaching , so I have to be home by a reasonable hour , so that we can exchange car keys and padlock keys and that sort thing . |
| 20 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 21 | The British Rail chairman , Sir Bob Reid , said last night : ‘ We have contacted Mr Knapp for urgent discussions and BR management are meeting him tomorrow with a view to finding a way through this so that we can avoid disruption to passengers . |
| 22 | What a good idea to build us a new housing estate so that we can pay property tax ! |
| 23 | Their opponents often concentrate on showing that we can reach agreement on basic propositions and neglect the very real difficulties of gaining deep insight into alien ways of thought . |
| 24 | I have drafted some further thoughts on what I think is required in the hope that we can reach agreement on form the index should take . |
| 25 | But it 's it 's about about doing that and about being able to practice and use these skills and techniques so that we can improve performance . |
| 26 | Some see this as indicating a constant relegation battle come the winds of March , but I believe it is only from such a lowly position , lulling opponents into a false sense of security , that we can wreak havoc on the rest of the League . |
| 27 | I do n't actually believe that that depression is normal , I believe that we can overcome depression , and I think there is some creative things that we can do out of a depression people can become stronger , they can tap into their resources inside with support and help , so I can believe it 's a positive experience . |
| 28 | It is in this social-theoretical context that we can understand Bourdieu 's effectively poststructural challenge to Lévi-Strauss 's and Althusser 's eminently modernist conceptions of scientific objectivity and autonomous structures . |
| 29 | ‘ The hospice now needs to be furnished , so that we can provide respite for up to 15 patients a day . |
| 30 | We also intend bridging to the other main RBGE network , so that Garden staff in Edinburgh , Dawyck , Younger , Logan , and other potential external sites may access the library catalogue , and so that we can provide library users with access to the plant record database . |