Example sentences of "we can [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ First , we have to define abuse , so we can differentiate between the criminal abuser , who must be removed as a carer , and the voluntary carer who , through frustration and lack of support , starts to abuse ’ . |
| 2 | It is a service we can perform for the Royal House . |
| 3 | The combination of such marked terms with a widespread use of word play is what we can regard as the typical exploitation of language in the French fabliaux . |
| 4 | Third , a labour market can be defined by sex , age or social class and we can refer to the female labour market or the market for young , middle-class executives . |
| 5 | In order to try to elucidate this controversial argument , we can return to the well-known remark in the essay ‘ Différance ’ : |
| 6 | Yeah , takes you to the end of this menu and we can return to the main menu , and er we wo n't er have to select printer again will we |
| 7 | If we have 2 or 3 good results now I can see this as being a watershed for Leeds , and we can build on the renewed confidence and self belief to challenge again . |
| 8 | Or we can cling to the old certainties — and go on as before . ’ |
| 9 | Beginning with the more familiar form of the continents we can distinguish between the continental platforms formed by plateaus and lowlands , and the major linear mountain systems known as orogenic mountain belts , or simply orogens . |
| 10 | Locke 's thought is that , just as we can distinguish between the characteristics of gold ( or the clock ) , and its corpuscular constitution ( or internal mechanism ) , so we can distinguish between the characteristic properties of a triangle , and what accounts for or explains them . |
| 11 | We can guess at the relative dating of the units , but unit one makes most sense as a secondary feature , since it seems to be butted on to unit two , with banks overlaid south of the mill . |
| 12 | The Riders , like most of the characters of Beowulf but unlike all we can guess of the real pre-Christian English , do not worship pagan gods ; they also do not hold slaves , commit incest , practise polygamy . |
| 13 | That is the biggest criticism that we can lay at the Labour party 's door . |
| 14 | The significance of Simmel 's work is that he breaks away from one of the most predominant tendencies in the grounding of Hegel in social analysis : that is , the suggestion that we can separate off the positive side of sublation from the negative side of externalization as rupture . |
| 15 | All this means we can forget about The Communards ' cover version of ‘ Never Can Say Goodbye ’ , and we can forget about the wretched Pet Shop Boys , the only successful contemporary pop ironists . |
| 16 | Since it seems unlikely that we can generate in the foreseeable future materials that are structurally similar to natural tissue , while having the most appropriate functional properties , the possibility has emerged of using traditional or advanced materials as functional substrates and modifying their surfaces , with biological components or their analogues , to provide optimal biocompatibility. one of the most exciting possibilities here is using biomimetic surfaces as described in the article by Dennis Chapman and Stephen Charles . |
| 17 | I 've I 've have been given notice that there is one proposed amendment which I intend to call now because then we can vote on the whole thing |
| 18 | Surely we can deduce from the very strength of our aspiration that love , once achieved , eases the daily ache , works some effortless analgesia ? |
| 19 | We can stir in the other two data sets , taking Poisson noise only as the null hypothesis ; again , the probability that power-law and/or Poisson noise explains all the data sets is less than 5% . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although while we are alive we can never return to Eden , we can benefit from the ever-flowing waters of Eden . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As there are 56 million people in the country , we can arrive at the following calculation : |
| 25 | Aggregating Dolgikh 's figures , we can arrive at the approximate numbers for the peoples of Siberia in the seventeenth century ( including some 69,000 people of the Altai-Sayan and the far East who were not at this time Russian subjects ) as shown in Table 5.1 . |
| 26 | I think we should attempt to focus on what we can do with the scarce resources that are available to us . |
| 27 | Er what we can do with the Holy Spirit is more than we can do on our own . |
| 28 | What we can do with the Holy Spirit is something that we can not do on our own . |
| 29 | ‘ We can do without the American colonies . |
| 30 | Is not that the best investment that we can make in the long-term future for that troubled area ? |