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 . |