Example sentences of "[adj] we can [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , there 's not much we can do with a two-minute video ’ |
| 2 | I mean , there 's not much we can do with a two-minute video . ’ |
| 3 | So with one of the four functions normally predominant over the other three we can speak of a sensate , intuitive , thinking or feeling type of person , who can be either extroverted or introverted . |
| 4 | Her argument is that by learning to overlook those parts of the world which are easily nameable we can revert to a mode of perception more favourable to successful drawing . |
| 5 | After that we can go to a hotel and so on , but I think I should see him . ’ |
| 6 | After that we can apply for a licence and hope they let us ‘ go legal ’ . ’ |
| 7 | I am sure we can agree on a fair price . " |
| 8 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 9 | A text , whether considered as a whole work or as an extract from a work , is the nearest we can get to a homogeneous and specific use of language . |
| 10 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |