Example sentences of "we can [verb] what [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning now to the dualist 's notion of invariant content and variable style , we can retain what is good in this distinction by refining it to allow for more than one level of stylistic variation . |
| 2 | We can check what 's on easy enough . " |
| 3 | But the English reader has a label ready to tie on to Theophile Gautier ; and by this time we can guess what is written on it — ‘ arid aestheticism ’ . |
| 4 | We listen more quickly than we speak , and when we can anticipate what is coming next then we switch off . |
| 5 | We can not turn back physically and become nomads , but we can do what is almost as good , we can become spiritual nomads . |
| 6 | We must find some way of ‘ taking out ’ of our calculations that fraction of brain that can be attributed simply to body size , so that we can compare what is left over as the true ‘ braininess ’ of animals . |
| 7 | We think we can produce what is wanted between us . ’ |
| 8 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 9 | The first is to provide simple descriptions of complex data so that we can understand what is going on in our experiments . |
| 10 | We ought to find a place where we can see what 's happening . ’ |
| 11 | Right , normally write it A. If we get an A , a B A we 'd write it A B. We keep the letters in alphabetical order when we multiply just so we can see what 's going on . |
| 12 | Here 's a set , we 'll make it a very small set so we can see what 's happening . |
| 13 | Well I 'd like to see a very open report , and that 's why I Mr , and I 'd like him to look at all the options , we 're deferring this so that we can see what 's possible , you know , , perhaps Hanson Trust would like to come along and offer us fifty million pounds for it , that 'd be a fair deal would n't it , perhaps somebody else would do that . |
| 14 | What they 're able to do with that money this year and in that way we can make a reasonable assessment as to what has to be done next year and the years after and budget all , but we 're talking about how they 're going to spend the money that we 've just earlier on voted for , for us so that we can see what is being done and also that the public can see because after all this all came up , the report to the ombudsman and the public will not be satisfied about our performance on that . |
| 15 | ‘ Then we can spend what 's left of the night discussing the lousy weather with them , ’ was the disagreeable reply to this nervous question . |
| 16 | There is a need to make what we can of an essentially applied subject , hoping that we can gain what is required from other disciplines without going too deeply into them . |
| 17 | To put this another way , we can predict what is going to happen in most of the situations in which we find ourselves because we have expectations that certain rules will be followed . |