Example sentences of "we can [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given our financial priorities , we will not be challenging the big six in Europe but we can expect to be an increasingly strong player . |
| 2 | According to Goffmann , what lends credibility to our concepts of personal self is the recognition of certain rules or conventions which limit the claims we can expect to be acknowledged with respect to freedom from untoward threat , interference and so forth . |
| 3 | Deer , wild boar , so we can claim to be connoisseurs . |
| 4 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 5 | We can divide the components of sea water into three erm categories firstly those things which we can consider to be major constituents these are substances which are present are concentrations greater than one part per million . |
| 6 | It may be that , at least in the Western World , we have reached a level of wealth where we can afford to be concerned about the environment . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told cabinet colleagues , ‘ We can not do very much , but we can seem to be very busy — and that is half the battle nowadays . ’ |
| 8 | If we can learn to be programmers _ indeed we already are — but if we can learn to instruct the computer , then we 'll retain our dignity and our responsibility in matters rather than really abdicating it in ways that I do n't myself favour . |