Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] we can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any queries about what we can do for you , please do n't hesitate to call us on |
| 2 | Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams . |
| 3 | Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ? |
| 4 | Because language appears such a natural instrument with which we can describe reality , its terms and expressions seem to describe the way things are and will always be . |
| 5 | There are two important fields of action in which we can work for the restoration of a vigorous and healthy economic life . |
| 6 | This is shown by the Hellenic prototype , thanks to which we can see that we are now recreating the Hellenic epochs , hut in reverse order , passing from the Alexandrian to the tragic . |
| 7 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 8 | Even if the brain were designed so that components could be easily removed , there is the issue of what we can conclude about the functions of its components from knowing the effects of removing one of them . |
| 9 | Our first task is to remove the uncertainties with which we can deal , and the first of those are the proposals of Mr. MacSharry . |
| 10 | ‘ There are areas in which we can act as a sounding board in general business issues and where the accountant ca n't ’ said . |
| 11 | If we now take the opposite extreme , that of a gas , we do not know the positions of atoms , merely their mean velocities , and the only relation we can obtain between load and displacement derives from the gas law from which we can obtain the " bulk modulus ' of the gas and this " modulus ' is entirely entropic in origin , no elastic forces being involved . |
| 12 | But if it is work in which we can join , the question needs to be asked : will we respond decisively ? |
| 13 | Fortunately goldfish can thrive in a surprisingly-wide assortment of environmental conditions and we need to determine a practical range in which we can operate , and which will be satisfactory for our fish . |
| 14 | And there are certain circumstances in which we can do that . |
| 15 | Furthermore , there are certain limitations to what we can learn from science because the concept of replication does not obtain in police investigation . |
| 16 | But the degree to which we can control our environment is often determined by others as Morgan goes on to point out : " We all construct or shape our realities but not necessarily under circumstances of our own choosing " ( p. 140 ) . |
| 17 | Technical problems usually revolve around the degree to which we can isolate or manipulate a single target system in a consistent and reliable way ( Bures , Buresova , and Huston 1976 ) . |
| 18 | There is always a hard core of trusty stalwarts on which we can depend but most people are not by nature volunteers . |
| 19 | We have discovered a connection , they will say , on the basis of which we can predict . |
| 20 | Bagdikian argues that national boundaries are growing increasingly meaningless as the main actors ( five groups at the time he was writing ) strive for total control in the production , delivery , and marketing of what we can call the cultural-ideological goods of the global capitalist system . |
| 21 | This ‘ raw material ’ is formed through an interaction between what we are born with and what we live through , or as James Michener puts it : ‘ Heredity establishes the perimeters of what we can accomplish ; environment determines whether we acquire the character to reach those perimeters ’ ( 1976 , p.130 ) . |
| 22 | Each new teacher is put through a period of what we can call social apprenticeship by the pupils in order to ascertain what sort of person and disciplinarian ( s ) he is going to be . |
| 23 | It is the Spirit who takes the things of God and reveals them to us ( 1 Cor. 2:12 ) , and Paul can rightly say that the very capacity to respond in faith is a gift of God and no man-made attribute of which we can boast ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 24 | Physiological psychology presents a range of major methodological challenges , and how well we meet these challenges affects the ease with which we can interpret the experiments that we carry out . |
| 25 | This is not surprising , given the difficulties encountered in developing them , but it does limit the ease with which we can generalize from one experiment to another or from experiments to the real world . |
| 26 | In recent years , however , I have realised that although romanticism can distort the past , there is an even greater trap into which we can fall . |
| 27 | The radius of the circle is determined by the reach of our fists and feet , the weapons with which we can repel unwanted guests if necessary . |
| 28 | A confidence limit is the interval within which we can say that the true value of the quantity we are estimating will lie with a specified probability . |
| 29 | A confidence limit is the interval within which we can say that the true value of the quantity we are estimating will lie with a specified probability . |
| 30 | Scene six is , as I have already suggested , the pivotal scene for Anderson — the point from which we can see a considerable change wrought in his character . |