Example sentences of "what we can " in BNC.
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| 1 | Descartes , so the story goes , reached this conception because , unlike his predecessors , the Aristotelians , he was obsessed by epistemological questions — that is , questions about what we can know and how we can know it . |
| 2 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 3 | In effect , this occurs by what we can regard as a self-timing of the system . |
| 4 | ‘ What we can say , however , is that smacking and beating mothers do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children . ’ |
| 5 | But there is no kind of crisis going on , except perhaps in the environmental or ecological area and in our own minds when we try to secure for ourselves what we can not have : namely a zero risk . |
| 6 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 7 | ‘ It gave everyone a good introduction as to what we can expect — the weather was hot and the pitch typically flat . ’ |
| 8 | Another said , ‘ The way I look at it , it 's too late now ; there 's nothing can be done which can put the clock back ; let's see what we can do to help the victim ’ ( FN 6/11/87 , p. 35 ) . |
| 9 | There was a mood , if we cloud all this up in realms of high theology then we shall all agree on what we can not understand . |
| 10 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 11 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 12 | ‘ And what we can afford . |
| 13 | Look at what we can learn from the black churches . |
| 14 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 15 | Moreover , what we can know , such as our duties and obligations to each other and to God , is just what we need to know ; and in many other cases we have beliefs sufficiently well-founded for the purposes of our everyday life . |
| 16 | All of this forms a central part of Locke 's answer to his initial question about the extent of human knowledge , and whether there is a horizon between what we can and can not know . |
| 17 | If private capital can be attracted — and I believe it could to the right project — it seems to me entirely right that we should do what we can as Government to create the right climate for a successful link to be built . |
| 18 | ‘ And that 's exactly what we can give her . |
| 19 | Anyway , we 'll do what we can without going too far . |
| 20 | Or failing the gift of a sum in cash , I am asking you to make it a business transaction , to buy what you clearly must need and what we can no longer afford to keep . |
| 21 | Let's see what we can do . ’ |
| 22 | We should not limit the power and majesty of God to what we can understand but leave it to him . |
| 23 | It is not possible here to give anything like a complete view of what we can learn from coin designs , and the following discussion will only characterise some of the potential and the pitfalls of using them . |
| 24 | We must all do what we can to help ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Why do n't we all give what we can spare ? |
| 26 | ‘ The only thing to do , ’ said Sam , ‘ is go to the house ourselves and see what we can find out . |
| 27 | ‘ Now we are finding new markets and we are very interested in seeing what we can offer Mari El and what they can offer us , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ On all other fronts we were ready for them , but we 'll put what we can into this one . ’ |
| 29 | If half the funds and the intellectual effort which has gone towards developing strategies for finding alternative families had been put into what we can only lamely call preventative work there would be unquestionable advantage to all concerned . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't think what we can do , ’ said Endill . |