Example sentences of "can we [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But only by allowing such openness can we effectively establish any kind of good practice . |
| 2 | The legal position is clear , so can we please stop this nonsense ? |
| 3 | Right , okay well can we just leave this for a minute please because we 're not getting |
| 4 | So can we just ignore that for the moment and focus on the first sheet deliberately |
| 5 | Look , can we just stop this , said headvoice . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , can we just put that behind us now ? |
| 7 | can we just put that down |
| 8 | Can we just ponder that , erm . |
| 9 | Can we just take that , take that spare cassette ? |
| 10 | Can we just take this on a , on a slightly more political level . |
| 11 | Sorry ca can we just let this ? |
| 12 | So can we just develop that one says that in our own department they put it up on the wall so people complete it themselves . |
| 13 | Erm , I 'm in favour because I had a walkabout with therefore I would like to say on five point three the and on five point six I would like to say B can we just have some traffic calming on the boundary , such as Lane , Road ? |
| 14 | Right , can we just have some general |
| 15 | Nor can we easily resolve this methodological problem by appealing to any clear theoretical definition of semantic equivalence based on formal syntactic relations between sentences , since even within generative syntax this is a highly unstable and controversial area of linguistic theory . |
| 16 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 17 | How can we actually articulate that sense of a broader vision ? |
| 18 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 19 | When our internal organs , lungs , liver or kidneys , are like the far side of the moon , never visible , how can we possibly have any feeling for them ? |
| 20 | And any changes that we agree in that meeting , can we then re-issue those procedures immediately after the meeting , or as soon as possible after ? |