Example sentences of "[noun] we can " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now suppose we try to analyse : ( 5 ) I am the mother of Napoleon We can not assess the truth of this sentence without taking into account who the speaker is ; for ( 5 ) is true just in case the person uttering the sentence is indeed identical to the individual who is the mother of Napoleon , and false otherwise . |
| 2 | As instances of mockery we can cite the reaction of the court of Navarre to the Pageant of the Nine Worthies ( Love 's Labour 's Lost , V.ii.484ff. ) , or that of Athens to ‘ Pyramus and Thisbe ’ ( Midsummer Night 's Dream , V.i.106ff . ) . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 've finished petting my horse we can be on our way , ’ he rasped abruptly , annoyed at the direction of his thoughts . |
| 4 | ‘ County ambulances are on their way , but we 'll do any first aid we can . ’ |
| 5 | Erm I 'd liked to discuss the point about what aid we can give to try and promote the stability and the event of prosperity of the country . |
| 6 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 7 | On the supply side we can identify long- and short-term influences . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 10 | So I 'm going to promise and you 've got to remind me about this promise that the next Tuesday , that 's when you 're or even Wednesday , but if I give it you Tuesday we can be organized for Wednesday ca n't we ? |
| 11 | Now we only have football we can only take footballs in on Monday and Thursdays . |
| 12 | At the finish of the contest we can just about call Jacob the victor . |
| 13 | So so erm , basic idea about crying is this kind of arms race situation , which offspring have been selected to amplify the signal , because it promotes their reproductive success , to get every little bit of extra parental investment we can for themselves . |
| 14 | CAFOD also exists to raise awareness of the causes of poverty and injustice in the Third World and the steps we can take to bring about change . |
| 15 | But within this complete chronology we can discern some processes and states of affairs that are comparatively brief , others that last for an intermediate length of time , and some that go on for centuries or even millennia . |
| 16 | The brief introduction to Piaget 's ideas in Chapter 2 , and our realization that as adult readers we can not read , say , an Ordnance Survey map , a machine drawing , or art forms from cultures not our own with anything like total understanding , should cause us to be cautious and questioning when presented with these assumptions . |
| 17 | And as with Rembrandt we can watch his face and figure change , in countless paintings , prints and drawings , from that of a young to that of an old man . |
| 18 | Until we have such a conception we can not describe the original sensation to ourselves ; it is just a useless this , for the concept of the sensation has no content until the rules have been set up . |
| 19 | In the future we can expect to see CICS appearing on yet more machines , says Pat Sueltz , transaction systems director at Hursley Park . |
| 20 | In the future we can expect to see this technology integrated into the motherboard circuitry — initially for use in portable computers to reduce the unit weight and power requirements . |
| 21 | In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy . |
| 22 | There is though one general rule we can set up easily enough . |
| 23 | However , for those observations which are consistent with the use of a reservation rule we can infer the implied ( almost inevitably stochastic ) reservation price by probit analysis . |
| 24 | The greatest good we can do to people is to treat them with compassion , courtesy and respect . |
| 25 | rooms , taught drawing and that erm there 's a youth club we can go to and that 's got sort of , table tennis and snooker . |
| 26 | But even among established units we can distinguish grades of centrality . |
| 27 | Somebody 's slipped over and they 've got all the grit in their knuckles in the part of their knuckles and you want to bandage the hand or there 's a cut on the hand , even on the palm , we can do that one later when it 's really , when it 's really a gash , gushing blood we can do this afternoon , I repeat again none of these which you 've done this morning will control severe bleeding , get it into your heads this is just to cover to keep infection out , alright , these are not to control severe bleeding just covering a minor wound or a graze , right ? |
| 28 | ‘ Now that I 've got the car we can do things like that , ’ Edward went on . |
| 29 | If the image represents a still photograph we can frame it by using an overhead projector as a light source , as if the image is a photographic transparency . |
| 30 | From any solution of this equation we can generate equivalent solutions by changing coordinates ; they are equivalent because the measurable tidal effects are determined by the difference in h at two places and remain the same whatever the choice of coordinates . |