Example sentences of "we can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Although CD-A has only been available commercially since 1983 , we can estimate its likely performance over ten years and use a mix of actual and projected penetrations in our analysis .
2 If we do not turn up for work , we are likely to get the sack , but in our private worlds we can dream our lives away at home , church or play .
3 We must do everything we can to restore her sight but there is no guarantee the operations will be successful . ’
4 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 .
5 Before we see how the enclosure commissioners replanned the landscape of central England , and how we can identify their work today , it is necessary to say something briefly about the dating of the parliamentary enclosure movement as a whole .
6 Our personas will be more or less realistic depending on how well we can identify their prototypes , and how linguistically adept we are at mimicking them .
7 One principle which we can identify we shall call the principle of local interpretation .
8 If we can identify it , then we have identified a taken-for-granted rule of everyday life .
9 We can identify you more readily that way .
10 They , they said well we can redo it for you , they said we can give you a reduction in it , and he sort of bartered with them , and I think he got , you know , a good couple of hundred pound off just for this little chip in the unit .
11 We can speak our minds then and there — being honest but not destructive .
12 ‘ And then we thought , well maybe we can bluff our way through when people start reading into it . ’
13 So perhaps we can bluff it out and collect software by day leaving philosophical disquiet to the troubled night .
14 ‘ We have now proved that we can match anyone at the highest level of the sport .
15 ‘ I say , maybe we can finish it and put the ladder back before he returns .
16 If it 's not , we can finish it off without too many questions being asked .
17 Do you want to see if we can finish it Christine .
18 the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian .
19 Confronted with a bronze picture , we can locate its image on the relevant computer screen and , having read its precise history , proceed to learn about tableware in general , the social system of Pompeii , and even the precise recipes of the time .
20 I thought , ‘ I 've just got to say something , and if it does n't go down too well , we can edit it out afterwards ’ .
21 Not only can we read it , we can edit it as well , which means that an understanding of the INI files allows you to take a firmer control of Windows .
22 If she grows up bright and interesting we can renew our acquaintance , a discrezione .
23 And I might be able to bring down Rosa for a bit during the summertime so we can renew our friendship .
24 The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers .
25 If we see her walking up the road we can tell her , and if we do n't , we 'll give them a ring later on .
26 Well we can tell him how much we 'd be charging them to .
27 And we can tell him how , how much we 're gon na charge him but it 's up to him or whatever .
28 He suggests that it will be better if we can tell him what our priorities are , so that they can tailor their service to meet our requirements , both as to content and to timing .
29 Since the ubiquitous Robert Goodwill ( Tory , Redcar ) keeps asking us his Labour opponent 's whereabouts , we can tell him that Marjorie Mowlam will be having one in the Punch Bowl too .
30 If we can tell what the animals are about to do next , then surely so can their opponents .
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