Example sentences of "can we really [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So until we have fairly set out upon that road , how can we really hope to understand the inner beings of other creatures ? |
| 2 | Can we really compare the exam results of a grammar school in leafy suburbia with those of a non-selective school in a deprived inner city area ? |
| 3 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 4 | Can we really do nothing about it , just because they seem to have taken one of our slogans , one of our demands and twisted it ? |
| 5 | ‘ Can we really contemplate the whole of British industry being dependent on foreign carriers ? |
| 6 | Can we really assume that the birds and monkeys and also mantids are such wonderful observers ( or that some very clever ones among them are ) to notice a " remote " resemblance and be repelled by it ? |
| 7 | Goldschmidt might rather have said : " Can we really assume that the birds , etc. are such poor observers ( or that some very stupid ones among them are ) ? " |
| 8 | Can we really expect them to retain the same way of thinking as they had as penniless hopefuls , and if they did would n't that simply be an insipid patronisations ? |
| 9 | But can we really dismiss Deutsch 's proscriptive view of our biological masochism , strange as it is ? |
| 10 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 11 | In 1974 , Fidel Castro said , in his closing speech to the Second Congress of the FMC , ‘ We live in a socialist country , we made our revolution sixteen years ago , but can we really say that Cuban women have in practice gained equal rights with men and that they are fully integrated into Cuban society ? ’ |
| 12 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 13 | Yet despite the heartening experiences of the last 199 issues of the magazine , can we really say that we have affected public opinion ? |
| 14 | Can we really trust Mr Kinnock to handle them responsibly when his recent positions have been so erratic ? |
| 15 | But can we really afford to take such risks with our limited space and natural resources in Britain ? |