Example sentences of "that we can [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The natural way to do this is as an N-dimensional rectangular array ; but all that matters is that there is some metric D on the set of nodes , so that we can talk about the distance
2 Notwithstanding that , there are seven things that we can talk about er when we say gifts of the Spirit .
3 Our relationship with India , especially with the present Government of India , is such that we can talk about what is on our minds , and on the minds of many of our constituents , without causing offence .
4 Nevertheless , right , there seems to be something that , that , that survives all of those changes er that we can talk about and still me .
5 It 's not something that we can talk about too widely , but we can say that we are very confident , that er we can move towards a sensible and fair resolution of this dispute in we hope the near future .
6 Kenny makes a similar point when arguing that we can talk of animal wants only to the extent that they are restricted to their conscious needs .
7 It is in this sense of ‘ cognitive perspective ’ ( as Peters puts it ) that we can talk of the transcendence which comes through the life of reason , without resort to the metaphysical world picture of heavenly spheres of intellectual existence .
8 It is in these higher-order achievements that we can talk of a logical correspondence , although not identity , between the roles of student and of researcher .
9 Sometimes it 's worth having a word before you announce training to Mrs B say look , your role in this will be support me and have you got any ideas etcetera that we can talk to .
10 It is good that we can walk into that world again , even if only for a brief interlude .
11 Turn back your currents in their course , the stiff breeze and the gentle wind , pull back the tide and send the sun , the moon , and the stars spinning in the churn of the heavens — so that we can return to the time before this time .
12 It is essential that the teamwork and positive approach to our work continues so that we can cope with any increase which may be generated from an improvement in trading .
13 In the past we have always proved that we can cope with difficult situations and with the help of our loyal band of teachers and members , we are sure that the present problem will be overcome .
14 ‘ We want a pure boy that we can hold to our bosoms and we get a kind of …
15 Three weeks is not a long time to debate a Bill , but the number of hours that we can devote to the Bill during that period will be perfectly adequate .
16 ‘ I 'll be in touch so that we can arrange for C.W. to meet your men before Mobuto arrives tonight , ’ Kolchinsky said then picked up the transmitter on the desk and activated the door .
17 It is a matter of pride to us that we can boast of several scholars , in the first rank , who are not university teachers .
18 That is a remarkable achievement and I hope that we can build on it in the future .
19 I am sure that we can build on that and that it will be ever more successful .
20 These trends might of course represent the beginning of a change in progress , but if this is so , it is not yet established as a pattern that we can show by our methods as regular , and so we can not demonstrate that it is a change .
21 Is not that the best investment that we can make in the long-term future for that troubled area ?
22 We find it helpful to number modes so that we can refer to them simply in the form νsubn ; .
23 Second , crime is accepted to be a legal category — no attempt is being made to propose , as we saw some positivists tried to do , that we can arrive at some more objective conception that stands above the acts of human deliberation that constitute the process of legal definition .
24 This will give some intuitive idea of the amount of change that we can expect in real natural evolution .
25 But , even assuming , first , that the oppression has indeed been lifted , second , that we can speak of , and know , a time when that desire was ever free , and third , that we can speak meaningfully of a ‘ natural ’ or a ‘ liberated ’ desire ( and my argument questions all three assumptions ) , even assuming all this , liberated desire would still always be different from its pre-oppression counterpart .
26 It is in this sense that we can speak of Prussian hegemony : her economic strength , her size population and political weight inevitably resulted in putting a Prussian stamp on the new Germany .
27 Does this increase in variation mean that we can speak of a specifically ‘ local ’ politics , and if so is this based around local issues and is it generated through local processes ?
28 It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity .
29 It is in this sense that we can speak of students forming their own ideas .
30 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 .
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