Example sentences of "[Wh adv] we can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ … it will be a great thing not to have to depend on the fickle wind for making a passage , and still more to know that we may pounce down upon those rascally fast-sailing dhows whenever we can sight them in a calm , and be sure of overtaking them … ’ |
2 | These fast-changing times should cause all of us to reflect on the lives we are leading and how we can better them for ourselves and those around us . |
3 | Similarly , when Mill tries to explain how we can decide which is qualitatively the better of two pleasures , his actual answer is more or less that the higher pleasure is the one which is actually more liked by those in a position to compare them . |
4 | My hon. Friend should bring with him members of the NRA so that they can provide best advice on how we can give our river back to the people of Dartford . |
5 | ‘ But I am also keen to hear from anyone who has suggestions to make on how we can improve our environmental impact . |
6 | But , even if we are able to measure them , we then have the further problem of how we can distinguish their significance from the effects of normal maturation . |
7 | The Group 's Vision and Mission is about you and how we can maximise your skills , commitment and enthusiasm to continue our successful growth . |
8 | Aspirations , a sense of how we can realise our potential , give us power and motivation . |
9 | If we know what to do we can all look at our own houses and decide how we can alter them in not too expensive ways to make it a bit harder for the criminal . |
10 | We are investigating how we can involve our service users in evaluating services . |
11 | ‘ I do n't see how we can stop them , ’ said Floy , his eyes on the circling Tree Spirits and on the four Oaks who were now hauling on their claw-like roots , dragging Balor 's limbs outwards away from his body . |
12 | And I think it 's both important for N C V O itself , to ensure that it 's working on issues , equal opportunities issues that affect itself , and that it 's helping the sector as a whole to do that , and and we 're very conscious of that , and er , certainly just in the last few weeks , have been looking at how we can upgrade what we 're doing in that sphere . |
13 | ‘ I really do n't see how we can accommodate your dear grandmother at such short notice … |
14 | Once we have identified a need , we can go back and work out how we can satisfy it at a price that the market is prepared to pay . |
15 | Before we see how the enclosure commissioners replanned the landscape of central England , and how we can identify their work today , it is necessary to say something briefly about the dating of the parliamentary enclosure movement as a whole . |
16 | Every aspect of the trip is analysed to see Where we went wrong and how we can prevent it happening next time . |
17 | CAFOD , on behalf of the church in this country , are asking people to write to their MP to stress that this country should not be cutting aid , but rather seeing how we can increase it . |
18 | And I think one of the things that we hopefully might be able to think about , and might be able , not learn , because you know it already , you do n't need to learn it , is how we can increase our contribution to what the depot doing , by perhaps having a really close look at what we 're actually carrying . |
19 | We in the Policy Unit say we , we , members raise something and we get onto it and say right , this is how we can tackle it . |
20 | We might , however , usefully make " trust " the focal point of a drama in which , for example we examined when it is appropriate to trust someone , or how we might learn to trust someone in difficult circumstances , or how we can gain someone 's trust — but this is very different from the worryingly naive claims sometimes made for " trust games " . |
21 | And we we discussed the the difference between anxiety and arousal and how we can turn our anxiety into arousal to ensure performance and I plotted a little graph if you remember . |
22 | But we have to manage to find out how these people think , how we can convince them Even to protect themselves , one of the things we 'd like to show is look , using this mercury , you 're killing yourself . |
23 | This month , Olga stresses the importance of good technique and how we can obtain it . |
24 | I think all of us now are trying to work out how we can re-configure our teams to get 2 ARSE defenders . |
25 | ‘ We are not only doing smarter things in our plants , but also looking downstream to see how we can use our products in new and more profitable ways , ’ Ewart explains . |
26 | My plan is to consider inter-relations between welfare improvement and the safeguarding of the environment , but first I want to talk about what the term ‘ welfare ’ means , and how we can use it in a scientific way . |
27 | What we need is not simply a new , flatter organization but an understanding of how managerial hierarchy functions — how it relates to the complexity of work and how we can use it to achieve a more effective deployment of talent and energy . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Ethics is normally thought of as dealing with questions of action , asking how we ought to act , what it is , in various circumstances , our duty to do , and how we can know it . |
30 | I will now entertain suggestions as to how we can rid ourselves of this horrible dog menace . ’ |