Example sentences of "we can [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While her father stated , ‘ We can easily cope for a week , ’ and with a questioning look to Cara , ‘ or two ? ’ he queried . |
| 2 | And this selectivity is of course justified by my immediate aim , which is phonological rather than sociolinguistic — to discover whether we can reasonably speak of a meat/mate merger in Belfast English . |
| 3 | Okay , it 's just about five past so we can probably start with a clear conscience . |
| 4 | But we have already seen above that we can not do without an intensification of growth , the development of this petty-bourgeois farm . |
| 5 | He said ‘ we can not continue with a system under which teachers decide what people should learn without reference to clear nationally agreed objectives , and without having to expose , and if necessary justify , their decisions ’ . |
| 6 | On the other hand , we can not talk about a party system prior to the Glorious Revolution . |
| 7 | Needs have to be met to enable active citizenship as without education , welfare , health care , self-respect , and law we can not act in a way we would like to . |
| 8 | So until we know the solution we can not write in an expression for . |
| 9 | We can not wait for a Labour Government . |
| 10 | Similarly , Freeman argued , in relation to unskilled labour , that ‘ uneducative ’ employment was unavoidable and , therefore , it was necessary that ‘ the intelligence and character of the adolescent be trained outside the workshop ’ : ‘ We can not train for a trade , but we can enable the worker to do his duties as thoroughly as possible ’ ; such training would give a ‘ familiarity ’ with ‘ ordinary tools ’ and ‘ simple machines ’ , a grounding in ‘ mechanics ’ and ‘ competent draughtsmanship ’ . |
| 11 | We can legitimately think of an ants nest as a civilization : its members carry out highly specific or even very generalized tasks in pursuit of the common good . |
| 12 | The low rumble of a juggernaut seems to vibrate all around us but we can immediately turn towards a high-pitched sound , such as whistle being blown . |
| 13 | The evidence of division lists , voting patterns of peers and MPs , organisational structure , and ideological dispute , all serve to confirm the impression of a basic Whig–Tory conflict in England at this time , at least for the period after 1696 ; indeed , we can even talk about a two-party system . |
| 14 | I 'll borrow my brother 's Lambretta so that we can just sit for a whole hour and then I 'll drive you home . |
| 15 | We can conveniently begin with a widely drawn cosmological contrast , that between the secure realm of human habitation and activity , and the wild wasteland which surrounds and threatens it . |
| 16 | The history of standard pronunciations is not therefore something that we can usefully chart in a unilinear temporal continuum , as though co-existing varieties had no role except to ‘ feed ’ the standard ‘ variety ’ from time to time . |
| 17 | Compulsory labour services in many Latin-American countries were not abolished , and indeed intensified , so that we can hardly speak of a general liquidation of serfdom there . |
| 18 | Therefore I believe we can still arrive at a compromise on the options in the statement . |
| 19 | This means that we can still operate as an independent entity with our own , in some cases , unique courses and programmes , but we have the backing of a highly reputable university . |
| 20 | We can almost distinguish between a cultural set constructed around employment and wages for all adult members of the household ( which raises questions about the general applicability of Offe 's , 1984 , earlier quoted remark about the lessening importance of wages in relation to the determination of existence ) and another constructed around benefit dependency . |
| 21 | However , it is not until the Bolshevik Party , the first communist party to seize state power , ushers in the birth of the Soviet Union that we can realistically speak of a communist bloc . |
| 22 | I believe that it is as close as we can ever come to a universal truth in the history of prisons — that lack of work for prisoners is the greatest cause of indiscipline , unrest and unhappiness among the prisoners . |
| 23 | We can usually reckon on a degree of peace and quiet once the passengers go in to dinner . ’ |
| 24 | Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence . |
| 25 | We can then think of a theory as a function in the mathematical sense , which assigns one set of entities ( the domain ) to another set of entities ( the range ) , and the question is , what are these sets of entities ? |
| 26 | With this cautionary illustration behind us we can now proceed to a more complex and interesting example . |
| 27 | ‘ We can only stay for an hour , ’ said Ginnie . |
| 28 | It is no real objection to Bentham that we can only look for an approximation to the truth about these matters of pleasure and pain . |
| 29 | Though what will happen in the next century up to 2025 , as table 5.4 suggests , we can only calculate with a large margin of error . |