Example sentences of "[noun sg] we can [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we only have football we can only take footballs in on Monday and Thursdays . |
| 2 | In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy . |
| 3 | With such questions in mind we can now look at the ‘ structuration ’ of each class in turn , starting with the upper class . |
| 4 | As long as we 've got that and peace of mind we can perhaps do things outside of what money can bring you . |
| 5 | In this chapter we can only suggest some of the factors which ought to be considered in beginning to think of answers to them . |
| 6 | Seen in this light we can also discern distinct parallels between the thrust of Oakeshott 's work and the idea of the common law mind . |
| 7 | ‘ If we climb high on the rock we can then drop to flatter ice . ’ |
| 8 | With the symmetry of the rest of the geometry we can only assume this to be from choice rather than from the limitations of the designers ' technology . |
| 9 | Once we 've actually written the session we can then deliver it and the delivery is generally much more effective if we 've put together material which suits their needs perfectly . |
| 10 | I 've an aversion to tale-bearing from my schooldays , but the man 's such a public menace we can hardly allow ourselves to be deterred by scruples of that sort . ’ |
| 11 | They did little but eat , drink , chat , bathe and exercise , surrounded by fertile gardens , well-proportioned buildings decorated within by elegant frescoes ( several are in the show ) by muralists whose skill we can hardly emulate today . |
| 12 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |
| 13 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 14 | ‘ In the first place we can never forget the main objective in establishing News on Sunday was not to make money , ’ the Liverpool comrades continued , adding the muddled rider : ‘ It would be lovely to ignore money , but we ca n't . ’ |
| 15 | The BBC reissue contained very poor transfers , but I 'm delighted to say that thanks to good engineering work by David Lennick on Music and Arts 's new disc we can now enjoy these 1935 performances in acceptable sound . |
| 16 | But despite this controversy , methods of birth control were not in fact alien to the working class and in the use of contraception we can again see distinctive patterns . |
| 17 | At this point we can either laugh at the absurdity of the situation or , more naturally , stand in awe of Satan and from now on find him a compelling figure , whatever evil he is about . |
| 18 | At this point we can usefully remind ourselves of the central problem with which urban sociology is engaged and the reasons why we are engaging in the problematic areas of theory discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 1 . |
| 19 | One of the main disadvantages of needles and syringes is that needles invade through skin with the possibility of cross contamination and we think with our device we can completely eliminate that . |
| 20 | For the moment we can only piece together fragments of evidence . |
| 21 | ‘ At the moment we can only tell them apart by taking a sneaky look at the name-tags in their jumpers . |
| 22 | These also can not occur in postnominal attributive position ; we have cited the unacceptability of postnominal sheer in ( 34 ) , and of course ( 39 ) is equally unsatisfactory : ( 39 ) a team-manager former was brought out of retirement We can also observe that , for the same reason , qualifying nouns , which do not instantiate a property of the head noun , are excluded as a class from postnominal position except , again , for phrases borrowed from French , such as Tournedos Rossini . |
| 23 | That scaffolding must itself have been built by an earlier form of cumulative selection , at whose nature we can only guess . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , we can conclude that many of the megalithic monuments had some sort of astronomical import ( and this includes some aspects of the Egyptian Pyramids ) ; as to their religious meaning we can only guess . |
| 25 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |
| 26 | But he will give us the feeling that though the character has not been explained , it is explicable , and we get from this a reality of a kind we can never get in real life … . |
| 27 | Yes , in terms of this definition it has to be because that 's the only , that 's the bottom line of evolution , and it 's the only quantitative measure we can ever have , it 's the only When you 're ready , there 's no hurry . |
| 28 | Theorem 1.11.3 ( The Remainder Theorem ) unc Proof By the division algorithm we can surely find polynomials m , r ε J[x] such that f = m(x-a) +r . |
| 29 | When a strong to moderate wind blows against our skin we can usually feel the wind 's direction , although we often rely more on the direction in which trees or smoke are being blown . |
| 30 | But I hope that by pursuing that course we can also help others set high standards — help others win the argument for paying for good journalism : for supporting good journalism ; for scheduling good journalism . |