Example sentences of "we can [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The syllabus includes the ‘ core ’ of chemistry drawn up by the Standing Conference on University Entrance in 1983 , and as far as we can tell is also likely to include the new chemistry core under construction by the School Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 2 | Er furthermore er so the number upon whom we can draw is , is really minimal , and we do depend heavily on the help of the professional theologians , though we 're all theologians you know I , I subscribe to the idea that we 're all theologians , I wo n't listen to these people who say I 'm no theologian . |
| 3 | The emotional help that we can give is often about unravelling this complex package of emotion into a process that can be gently reviewed and understood by the person feeling it all . |
| 4 | But these are no reasons for not looking through the accounts , and making sure that all we can give is turned to real advantage . |
| 5 | The best reply we can give is : There is a test ( see exercise 1.11.11 ) due to Kronecker which will always tell in a finite number of steps ( which may easily be large enough to require a computer ) whether or not a given element of Q[x] is irreducible . |
| 6 | One form of suffering which we can avoid is the surprise of being persecuted . |
| 7 | We ca n't control all of these , but one that we can control is your knowledge of what a healthy weight-loss programme is , and what foods suit your body 's metabolism . |
| 8 | The maximum we can lay is five , yeah . |
| 9 | A consequence is that the kind of information we can glean is strictly limited — compared , at any rate , with that available for well-documented modern societies — but the results are still sufficiently significant to justify the effort . |
| 10 | therefore , the rate we can grow is to a large extent governed by the rate we can either attract or develop the specialised management staff we need . |
| 11 | At the empirical level , all we can observe is a difference between the acquired equivalence condition ( good generalization from A to B ) and the acquired distinctiveness condition ( poorer generalization from A to C ) . |
| 12 | In other words , quite often , the best we can expect is a compromise . |
| 13 | The best we can expect is destruction , or a sudden running-down of an establishment or extensive rebuilding on a different plan or scale . |
| 14 | We have excellent food — almost twice as much as we can eat is offered us at every meal — and we have well heated rooms , which is indeed a blessing , when you compare the virtual absence of heating at the Peking Languages Institute where we work . |
| 15 | What we can change is our future . |
| 16 | All we can do is plant and hope . |
| 17 | But we do not know the real essences of the substances of natural philosophy , so all that we can do is to observe and list their properties , and form only beliefs and opinions about them . |
| 18 | Often the most useful thing we can do is something obvious and practical that other people may be overlooking in their attempt to be helpful . |
| 19 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 20 | However if this is what the old person wants , one of the most helpful things we can do is to back up their wish for this to happen . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're desperately sick for Colin and now the least we can do is make the play-offs and win them for him , ’ said Whittingham . |
| 22 | All we can do is to try and insure against the possibility of ill-judged disposal by some sort of division of labour . |
| 23 | ‘ Then I suppose all we can do is to take her one of our Christmas puddings and some holly and things , ’ said Christine sadly . |
| 24 | He added what could , with a slight dose of exaggeration , serve as the epitaph of modern Cabinet government : ‘ All we can do is press every button we 've got . |
| 25 | What we can do is think about the meaning of play and fantasy , and the repercussions of denying a child the sort of toys and television-watching that is allowed to almost every other child . |
| 26 | But what we can do is give the children all the knowledge that this boy has without the experiences . |
| 27 | This immediately raises the question of what we mean by the separation of two particles A and B. It seems the best we can do is argue that the two particles A and B can be considered as separate only when the individual wave packets cease to overlap . |
| 28 | The best we can do is to grow a covering of skin over the stump where the amputation occurred . |
| 29 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 30 | However , until that stage is reached , all we can do is to ensure that the animals whose flesh we devour are given the best possible lifestyle and are then despatched as quickly and painlessly as possible . |