Example sentences of "can we [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what can we expect of the Pitch Shifter live extravaganzas ? |
| 2 | Nor can we think of the Christian God as three persons in the way that we normally consider them to be , or we would surely have to conclude that it was a religion committed to polytheism . |
| 3 | I am sure that all these thrusting executives are not going to kick away this trusty old crutch and fob millions of women off with something unsuitable like , oh , say , ( what can we think of ? ) a string of old Irishmen singing maudlin songs for hours on end . ’ |
| 4 | Now can we think of a famous thing that sometimes appears in space ? |
| 5 | So can we conceive of a more positive relationship between the culture of higher education and that of society ? |
| 6 | Can we speak of progress or is it just a series of changes which are going on ? |
| 7 | Only then can we speak of them as part of our cultural heritage . |
| 8 | But can we speak of ‘ the workers ’ as a single category or class at all ? |
| 9 | Given that this is so , what sense can we make of the way in which God , as opposed to John or Jane Smith , is personal ? |
| 10 | The powers attaching to a Prime Minister are considerable , but what can we make of the thesis about prime ministerial government ? |
| 11 | What sense can we make of support for these parties at the polls ? |
| 12 | What can we make of this perspective on British politics ? |
| 13 | What can we make of the corporatist perspective on British politics , and just how stable is the pattern of politics which is suggested by those who point to close collaborative arrangements between particular interests and the state in pursuit of ever more state intervention ? |
| 14 | What can we make of this pattern and can we suggest dates for the elements within it ? |
| 15 | What can we make of that ? ’ |
| 16 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 17 | Can we talk of time-independent current ? |
| 18 | Given the confusions rendered by its apparent message and a stylistic structure which subverts this message ( or , at least , creates an audience primarily among those for whom such a message is unwelcome ) , can we talk of the poem as a successful work of art ? |
| 19 | Can we dispose of that out of the way ? |
| 20 | But the Martians , that vanished race of titans , what can we say of them ? |
| 21 | What can we say of this ? |
| 22 | What can we say of the infant ? |