Example sentences of "we [vb base] [coord] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we see such intelligence and feeling among creatures which outwardly resemble ourselves — chimpanzees and other primates — we accept and can recognize it far more readily than we do among more alien creatures such as whales and dolphins . |
| 2 | The sign in the utterance , therefore , does not function as a symbol but as an index : it indicates where we must look in the world we know or can perceive in order to discover meaning . |
| 3 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |
| 4 | For Bataille , the ultimate destination of rational thought is the revelation that we know and can know nothing , beyond the realization that all the towering projections of the human spirit are based on a primary denial of the abyss out of which we were formed . |
| 5 | Realists are impressed by the constraints imposed by the ‘ external world ’ on what we know and can know . |