Example sentences of "we can [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the themes of the 1990s that we can identify for ourselves — although what history will make of it we must wait and see — is the concept of government by charter , with the underlying idea that poor public service can be remedied by better management held by force and compensation to higher performance standards . |
| 2 | Although the experiences of strange creatures in a strange setting may be highly imaginative , they become dramatic only when we can identify with them emotionally . |
| 3 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 4 | Now , we can not speak to the government , but we can speak to you . ’ |
| 5 | Like , we 're in the position where we can differentiate between them and gangsters in the community , and , like , we have to show the decent people that the Provies might scare them , but they do n't scare us , even if they do . |
| 6 | Sometimes the standard was changed , and if , for instance , we have two different standards in use in consecutive periods , we can tell from its weight to which group any new coin will belong . |
| 7 | First , we can use hoards to define the time individual coin types remained in circulation , since we can tell from them how long a particular coin continued to be available for hoarders . |
| 8 | The implicature we can draw from it all is that Anderson 's enthusiasm for the topic overrides his concern for his positive face , but that the conflict between these two concerns remains , and is visible in the nervous flaws in his linguistic performance . |
| 9 | We can not go into detail on these various theories , but we can draw upon their emphasis on the ‘ functions of capital ’ performed by those with strategic control over the enterprise and significant control ( directly or indirectly ) over subordinate employees . |
| 10 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I think we can rely on them spending long periods together , ’ Lucy assured Matt . |
| 12 | Will he give the House an undertaking that , when the report calls for action from the Government , we can rely on my right hon. Friend to take action without delay ? |
| 13 | We have the money for the current week and for future weeks in our hands , we know come what may we can rely on our Family Allowance . |
| 14 | And because we now we can rely on your experience and skill to convey it safely . ’ |
| 15 | These are the sort of things we 'd say to a good person in a formal situation , erm , you 're reliable , trustworthy , you know , we can rely on you to do a good job for us , doing your job well and with enthusiasm , when left in charge there 's been no problems , you 're responsible and flexible , you 're conscientious , I can trust you for , to do a good job and thank you for your contribution to the team . |
| 16 | We find it helpful to number modes so that we can refer to them simply in the form νsubn ; . |
| 17 | For brevity we can refer to it as the PCBCR . |
| 18 | We can stand on our own two feet ; deep mines can not do so . ’ |
| 19 | The second value we can assign to it is the backed up value of the position HisPos which the program chooses to move to . |
| 20 | So the best answer we can give to our question depends on how high a particle energy we have at our disposal , because this determines on how small a length scale we can look . |
| 21 | We 've only got one thing more that we can give to you and that 's a good clap to show you how much we 've appreciated you listening . |
| 22 | Lone inventors are by no means all nutters , but we can sympathise with anyone who has to deal with them all the time . |
| 23 | With this rather crude model of chemical reactions , we can return to our first question : why do only certain particular reactions occur in cells ? |
| 24 | To further contrast analogue and digital information , we can return to our wristwatch parallel . |
| 25 | ‘ We can start with my ricotta and a flask of good Chianti . |
| 26 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 27 | In this way we can build on what we believe we do well — providing excellent customer service and quality beer brands . |
| 28 | That is a remarkable achievement and I hope that we can build on it in the future . |
| 29 | The amount of press coverage that 's been generated this week by your conference has been enormously important to the local trade unions , it 's something that we can build on , it 's something that says to the local press to the local media trade unions have got something to say trade unions have got something to put forward and it 's that 's something that we will come back to erm afterwards , after you 've gone , we can use that , we can build on it . |
| 30 | Support the Report and let's see if we can succeed in what must be the greatest enterprise in the trade union Movement since the nineteen twenties . |