Example sentences of "but we can [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ True , we do n't , not all of it , but we can make things difficult for you — ’ |
| 2 | You see we can not always help who our brothers and sisters are but we can make alliances of people on issues of liberation and freedom that goes beyond that narrow family relationship and develops into a very solid alliance that helps to change situations . |
| 3 | We can not unilaterally break the law in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests , but we can mobilise consumer opinion . |
| 4 | We ca n't give away Sue and Richard 's dream home , but we can offer BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine readers a taste of the good life . |
| 5 | We ca n't see the rays outside the narrow light band , but we can do calculations about them , and we can build instruments to detect them . |
| 6 | Our minds ca n't imagine a time span as short as a picosecond , but we can do calculations about picoseconds , and we can build computers that can complete calculations within picoseconds . |
| 7 | ‘ But we can procure Kaos without extraordinary demand . |
| 8 | Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides . |
| 9 | ‘ The fabrics are from top manufacturers such as Osborne & Little , but we can use others to make up sample boards for our customers if we prefer . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |
| 11 | But we can cross Stratton off , I reckon . |
| 12 | Not all of us can aspire to this level but we can ask questions such as ‘ what would be the effect of building a motorway between towns A and B ? ’ |
| 13 | But we can find D Y by D U. |
| 14 | It is our land but we can issue tickets and we will , ’ said Mr Docherty . |
| 15 | Their reasons for adopting this view differed somewhat , but we can take Galileo 's position as not atypical . |
| 16 | But we can take heart from the fact that , apart from Germany , Britain enjoys the greatest choice and variety of beers in Europe . |
| 17 | ‘ But we can take heart from the Celtic and Leeds results and carry a lot of optimism with us into the first leg in Germany . |
| 18 | And we in the church may not yet be an army ‘ mighty and terrible with banners ’ , but we can muster resistance by coming together in little bands of hope ready to strike in deep raids behind enemy lines . |