Example sentences of "we can [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if we can identify what features of language are equivalent in terms of the code , we shall be in a better position to study the effects of stylistic choice . |
| 2 | If we can tell what the animals are about to do next , then surely so can their opponents . |
| 3 | They provide a reference point and by comparing our behaviour with the reference point we can tell what adjustments are required . |
| 4 | SERAFIN : So we can prefer what we 're not aware of enjoying to what we are aware of enjoying ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erm , what we have to do is to look at , if you like , the way in which A , we can improve what we do erm , and see if we ca n't get more out of the two of you than we do currently , I 'm sure you 'll enjoy what we 're doing . |
| 7 | History , for Nicol , is not the simple matter that it seems for Crichton-Smith , ‘ because afterwards is where we live , where we can resolve what happened , according to one , according to another ’ . |
| 8 | And I think it 's both important for N C V O itself , to ensure that it 's working on issues , equal opportunities issues that affect itself , and that it 's helping the sector as a whole to do that , and and we 're very conscious of that , and er , certainly just in the last few weeks , have been looking at how we can upgrade what we 're doing in that sphere . |
| 9 | And it is essential that we should be the ones who control just which parts of our brains we use so that we can achieve what we have decided are our goals . |
| 10 | Now we can distinguish what might seem to be two forms or , versions of conventionalism . |
| 11 | Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant . |
| 12 | The fact that we can examine what local authorities are doing has been comprehensively ignored , yet it could have an effect on many of the points that were raise . |
| 13 | We can check what 's on easy enough . " |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | And we are blending water supplies so that we can we can meet whatever limits are are applicable or appropriate . |
| 16 | We listen more quickly than we speak , and when we can anticipate what is coming next then we switch off . |
| 17 | So we can deduce what the field of vision of our globular-eyed trilobite was , by looking at the directions in which all the lenses face . |
| 18 | We can evaluate what those prospects are and , if we choose to , venture forth in search of the unknown . |
| 19 | We can evaluate what we have done . |
| 20 | We can decide what we want . |
| 21 | First we have to work out what we think justice is , therefore , before we can decide what justice demands . |
| 22 | we can decide what you want to use . |
| 23 | But I think we need to have a report to this committee , saying what we could do , and then we can decide what we will do . |
| 24 | Similarly , when Mill tries to explain how we can decide which is qualitatively the better of two pleasures , his actual answer is more or less that the higher pleasure is the one which is actually more liked by those in a position to compare them . |
| 25 | The only reason is that we are younger and we have more freedom , we can do what we like . |
| 26 | We can not turn back physically and become nomads , but we can do what is almost as good , we can become spiritual nomads . |
| 27 | ‘ Surely we can do what we like in our own back garden , ’ he says . |
| 28 | We can do what we like and say what we like to whomever we like , without restriction . |
| 29 | If we can do more — if we can do what I have described — so be it . |
| 30 | So subject to me taking advice from the Chief Executive , er I feel we can do what members require . |