Example sentences of "we can [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need a government which is not afraid of playing its part , a government that is not clinging to some of the apparent certainties of the Cold War but one that is willing to step off the sidelines and help ensure that through co-operation between East and West we can move from the two old Europes to the one new Europe with stability . |
| 2 | Surely we can deduce from the very strength of our aspiration that love , once achieved , eases the daily ache , works some effortless analgesia ? |
| 3 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 4 | We can conclude from the previous section that a change in national income ( even when adjusted for price and population increases ) can only be used as an indicator , and not an accurate measure , of a change in economic welfare . |
| 5 | Although while we are alive we can never return to Eden , we can benefit from the ever-flowing waters of Eden . |
| 6 | We can infer from the available evidence , unsatisfactory though it is in many respects , that , as had been the case in 1939 , the attempt on Hitler 's life polarized sentiments . |
| 7 | This means that multi-dimensional scaling has applications in many areas of work , as we can see from the following examples . |
| 8 | We can see from the latter 's evocative landscape , Figure with Birds , that , in Britain at any rate , Surrealism served to refresh the romantic imagination . |
| 9 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 10 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 11 | But we can see from the nineteen eighty Act that . |
| 12 | We can see from the Unemployed Flow Survey that the proportion of people finding work within 10 months of registration as job seekers who took temporary jobs varied with the level of unemployment in their area . |
| 13 | By the tenth century we can see from the detailed boundary clauses contained in charters that the earlier estate arrangements are already becoming obscure . |
| 14 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 15 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 16 | Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry . |
| 17 | Look at what we can learn from the black churches . |
| 18 | In spite of the distances of time and culture , we also discover that we can learn from the great men and women of faith who lived before us . |