Example sentences of "we can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 32 | If we can identify it , then we have identified a taken-for-granted rule of everyday life . |
| 33 | Analysis of this problem is greatly facilitated by the fact that we can identify anatomically the subregions of the visual cortex most likely to be involved in colour vision . |
| 34 | Thus it is only by reference to a standard of normality that we can identify and respond to actions such as those of children and the insane . |
| 35 | When applied to child abuse , then , it is assumed that if we can identify the characteristics associated with actual or potential abuse we will be able to identify and hence predict and prevent the problem . |
| 36 | It is moderated by the fact that since we are all naturally deviant given the chance , we can identify with offenders because we can imagine them being ourselves . |
| 37 | What Thucydides and his contemporaries were doing was ‘ challenging ’ social dogma , not simply ‘ readjusting ’ it , and it is in this characteristic of classical Greek scholarship that we can identify the crucial consequence of acquiring literacy . |
| 38 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 39 | Even if we can identify the relevant society , we also need to be able to identify the content of that political tradition . |
| 40 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 41 | Looking first at expenditure flows , we can identify total expenditures within the economy as the sum of consumption spending by the personal sector ; investment spending by the industrial and commercial sector ; investment and current spending by the government , local authorities , and the public corporations , i.e. the public sector ; and the net position with respect to imports and exports ( ‘ net ’ since imports represent expenditure on output of another economy ) , i.e. the overseas sector . |
| 42 | Accordingly we can identify two necessary conditions which must be fulfilled before macroeconomic policies are likely to be successful : |
| 43 | Provided that we can identify the regularities in nature , then we need nothing more in order to predict and explain what happens . |
| 44 | We can identify social mechanisms which secure the transfer of upper-class privilege across generations , transmitting both economic and cultural capital and perhaps also political influence . |
| 45 | ‘ Really we only laugh at humour we 're relaxed with , or a situation we can identify with , ’ says Carl . |
| 46 | The graphemes themselves are individual letters or small groups of letters such as " b " , " ou " , and " ght " , and when we can identify these graphemes and then pronounce them together as the sound represented by /bo:t/ ( which rhymes with " port " ) , we can be said to have used the GPC rules . |
| 47 | If we can identify style markers , we shall rule out , simply by ignoring them , whole areas of the English language which do not seem to be exploited in any unusual way in a particular text . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Now consider the general polynomial unc We can identify P(C) with D ; this requires unc where 1 , … , n are the diagonal elements of C , and d1 , … , dn those of D. The square matrix in ( 30 ) is known as an alternant : its reciprocal is discussed in Ref ( P1 ) . |
| 50 | It appears that there are many points at which er we can identify with one another or I have found that I can identify with the church and its social responsibility in this country because of our experience in my country . |
| 51 | One principle which we can identify we shall call the principle of local interpretation . |
| 52 | This type of approach to the analysis of discourse is based on the principle that , if we can identify the boundaries of units — where one unit ends and another begins then we need not have a priori specifications for the content of such units . |
| 53 | We can identify three kinds of sentence which are considered wrong , in addition to those with writing errors of spelling and punctuation . |
| 54 | We can identify some of its main characteristics and requirements . |
| 55 | Broadly speaking , we can identify two types of normality — sentence-internal normality and contextual normality ( it is probably the case that the latter is the stronger determinant of sense selection ) . |
| 56 | In order to adapt the idea for use in an monolingual urban situation , we have adopted for practical purposes certain procedures from ethnographic work , for example , the idea of measuring the intensity of network contacts ; on the basis of this we can identify clusters of individuals within which the network links are relatively strong . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | We can identify a formal partnership by the partnership deed . |
| 59 | Similarly , when we look at the South in contemporary perspective , we can identify a wide variety of indicators on which it stands out . |
| 60 | Without claiming to treat the question exhaustively , we can identify some possible reasons . |