Example sentences of "that we can [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only when we are weak and ‘ poor in spirit ’ that we can experience the overwhelming power and wealth of God . |
| 2 | The first part of this research will develop a novel statistical methodology , which combines census , electoral and survey data , so that we can evaluate the relative importance of three possible causes of the polarisation : the changing social structure of the population in different regions ; the impact of the growth of parties other than Conservative and Labour ; and variations in voting behaviour between people in defined social groups but living in different regions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the hon. Gentleman really cares about unemployed people , will he join me today in calling on his Front-Bench colleagues to abandon their policy of a national statutory minimum wage , to abandon their jobs tax and to abandon their embrace of the European Community social action programme so that we can avoid the disastrous consequences for employment that would follow from such policies ? |
| 5 | The story of Doubting Thomas is told , not so that we shall admire Thomas , but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison . |
| 6 | I often think that our sociological relationships are like an action in which each person is a small knot so that we can influence the common situation in four directions . |
| 7 | This I think is greatly to the credit of ICM , provided , as you say , that we can retain the appropriate balance . |
| 8 | It is nonsense to close missions so that we can meet the new and welcome demand from the Baltic states and , for example , Phnom Penh . |
| 9 | There are two solutions : one is to devour a treatise on instruments , instrumentation , and orchestration ; the other is to learn to play enough instruments so that we can learn the main performing principles of each of the main instrumental groups — strings , woodwind , brass , and keyboard . |
| 10 | Through the United Nations and the European Economic Community we shall certainly be doing all that we can to encourage the social reforms — for example , the reform of land ownership — to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 11 | I would anticipated that we can film the whole sequence within half an hour and that we would make every effort not to disrupt the normal running of your business . |
| 12 | It follows that we can describe the human transactions between students and staff that constitute the processes of higher education without mentioning ‘ the academic community ’ . |
| 13 | It is not simply that we can suspect the objective basis of ‘ knowledge ’ but that ‘ knowledge ’ is compartmentalized ; some kinds of ‘ knowledge ’ are considered more important than other kinds , and this is communicated very effectively in schools . |
| 14 | ‘ We have very little money in the bank but this match is so important to us that , cash or no cash , I have booked the team into a posh hotel for Saturday night so that we can get the right preparation . |
| 15 | We also know that the time scale of development in our business is longer than in many other areas because , after all , in the chemical business we are , so to speak , molecular engineers : our skills consist of rearranging the chemistry of the world which has been created so that we can produce the new products . |
| 16 | This means that we can write the basic consumption function in the ‘ permanent income ’ hypothesis as This is illustrated in Fig. 7 . |
| 17 | Let unc where C is the canonical spectral matrix unc of A , and X is the modal matrix of A:X is not unique ; if we have any matrix Y which permutes with C , then from ( 24 ) AXY = XCY = XYC so that we can write the modal matrix of A alternatively as XY . |
| 18 | It is in the work of Edward Said that we can find the problematic of historicist forms of knowledge linked most forcibly to the question of European imperialism . |
| 19 | ‘ We can do nothing for Eastern Europe if we fail among ourselves in a few days ’ time to agree on economic and monetary union , social and environmental policies so that we can complete the European single market on time . ’ |
| 20 | This ensures that we can supply the complete spectrum of materials to all our customers in the building trade . |
| 21 | It would be helpful to prepare a forecast balance sheet for completion so that we can consider the various options . |
| 22 | At the time of this quote the basic rate of income tax was 25 per cent so that we can calculate the gross dividend payment . |
| 23 | We know we can fund all that , because we know that we can raise the additional revenues we need , and we have told the British people where they will come from . |