Example sentences of "we can [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mick chatting to Jenny about what we can expect over the next few weeks , as we spend a day in the life . |
| 2 | It is about the same as we can anticipate in the next century , on the basis of currently predicted rates of greenhouse warming , according to scientists like Tom Wigley , Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . |
| 3 | That set of questions has to be distinguished from those we can pose on the second level of culture . |
| 4 | Now we can begin on the first phrase — the most important of the whole theme , for the success of everything else depends upon it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
| 7 | ‘ That win over Wakefield increased our profile in London ten-fold and , if we can get to the third round , then it would help us to attract sponsorship and the public . |