Example sentences of "we can [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The public is becoming aware that we can cater for all financial needs , from cheque books to travel insurance . |
| 2 | ‘ The public is becoming aware that we can cater for all financial needs , from cheque books to travel insurance . |
| 3 | The principle we can distil from this is that thoughts precede actions . |
| 4 | One of the themes of the 1990s that we can identify for ourselves — although what history will make of it we must wait and see — is the concept of government by charter , with the underlying idea that poor public service can be remedied by better management held by force and compensation to higher performance standards . |
| 5 | Although the experiences of strange creatures in a strange setting may be highly imaginative , they become dramatic only when we can identify with them emotionally . |
| 6 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 7 | It is moderated by the fact that since we are all naturally deviant given the chance , we can identify with offenders because we can imagine them being ourselves . |
| 8 | ‘ Really we only laugh at humour we 're relaxed with , or a situation we can identify with , ’ says Carl . |
| 9 | It appears that there are many points at which er we can identify with one another or I have found that I can identify with the church and its social responsibility in this country because of our experience in my country . |
| 10 | We can sleep at night with you in the house . |
| 11 | Now , we can not speak to the government , but we can speak to you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The catering industry needs things like industrial cleaners for dishwashers which are phosphate free , for instance , and if we can speak to the suppliers as an industry , rather than as individuals , we have more power of persuasion . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That is all the description we can have until we can have until we can speak to Mrs Hardy further . ’ |
| 14 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |
| 15 | Someone we can speak to , you know . |
| 16 | the Early Iron Age up to 500 AD , he said we can speak with more confidence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | So with one of the four functions normally predominant over the other three we can speak of a sensate , intuitive , thinking or feeling type of person , who can be either extroverted or introverted . |
| 21 | Second , a labour market can be defined by skill or occupation : we can speak of the market for economics lecturers or the market for car workers . |
| 22 | That said , there is a serious question about how far we can speak of ‘ women 's languages ’ or ‘ genderlects ’ in the same way we talk of ‘ Lancashire dialect ’ or ‘ Jamaican creole ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the community as a whole , therefore , we can speak of alternation between front-raised values and lowered ( mainly backed ) values , according to which of the rules is applied . |
| 25 | Given any symbol , A , we can speak of all the sentences generated from A by the grammar . |
| 26 | If , as is sometimes done , things are assimilated to events , we can speak of particulars as events , and of the latter as being " temporal " in the sense that every event exhibits a pattern of change in some direction , and can be said to occur simultaneously with , or before , or after , some other event . |
| 27 | It is in this sense that we can speak of students forming their own ideas . |
| 28 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
| 29 | Since most of the parameters here will normally be constant during a given experiment we can speak of the blackout level for a given light intensity . |
| 30 | Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training . |