Example sentences of "we can [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those generous people at Trantec have told us we can give away the very S1000 we reviewed a couple of months back , and we do n't need telling twice … |
| 2 | There is no way we can decipher properly the individual contributions that different pairs of atoms make to the total atomic distribution . |
| 3 | So we can express then the overall form of the action potential in terms of the differential activity , first of sodium channels and then of potassium ac channels . |
| 4 | ‘ We can go up the long way , past your farm , and you can nip in and change . |
| 5 | have n't got it right actually , I mean basically we can go up the top shop and buy what we like ca n't we ? |
| 6 | We can go down the bottom end this way |
| 7 | I hope , though , there are fifteen hundred families in Portslade who are doing that job , not for me but for them , so that we can carry out the important educational processes that go on within the college . |
| 8 | We can do exactly the same : look around for good ambush spots as you run , places which give you cover so that you can jump out and completely surprise your attacker as he rushes past . |
| 9 | I mean it it 's only external speakers that we should er I mean they come to the University for a day , I can set that up I mean we can do exactly the same at university . |
| 10 | At will we can make even the minutest of movements . |
| 11 | There is , however , no clear one-to-one relationship between discourse type and sender and receiver , and for many words denoting discourse type ( song , for example , or article ) we can make only the vaguest connections . |
| 12 | Before we can assess fully the relative merits of dramatic playing , exercise and performance modes , it will be necessary to re-define the relationship between them , particularly from the point of view of emotion . |
| 13 | So by measuring just one substance we can work out the overall total salinity . |
| 14 | We can work out the total increase in income by recalling that the slope of the withdrawals line is equal to the sum of the marginal propensities to save and import ( given that , in this model , the marginal propensity to tax is zero ) . |
| 15 | We will do everything we can to clear up the open questions . ’ |
| 16 | We will do everything we can to clear up the open questions . ’ |
| 17 | We can understand why the Egyptian culture built the Pyramids : self-aggrandisement on the part of the pharaohs . |
| 18 | Here we can consider only the final versions . |
| 19 | In 1873 Walter Pater 's book , The Renaissance , first appeared ; its Epicurean message that art is to help us maintain ecstasy is far from the view of Lieberich , in the light of whose lecture we can see why the aesthetic movement of the late nineteenth century came about — in reaction to representational theories , in the age of photography . |
| 20 | But it was the piercing electromagnetic field forces and the solar wind that blew away most of the atmospheres consisting of the very lightest gases from the planets nearest to the sun , to leave them with dense cores of rock and metal , the outer gaseous planets being less affected in this way ( now we can see why the innermost planets of the solar system are solid , metallic and rocky , while the outer ones are icy and gaseous ) . |
| 21 | Erm and through this we can see where the different variations come in the system and introduce one or two other ones . |
| 22 | We can see here the personal link between Fabianism and New Liberalism as political movements , the positivist and functionalist methods in social science , on the one hand , and , on the other , the sociological and realist movements in American law . |
| 23 | We can see exactly the same connections being drawn in the case of Frances , Jenny and Ian . |
| 24 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 25 | ( We can see how the new Aeschylean note that Nietzsche had been sounding since his lectures of 1870 was , like much else , in harmony with Wagner 's aspiration . ) |
| 26 | If we are content to think generally , then , we can see how the key molecules of life might have arisen . |
| 27 | The Webbs ' account of the transformation of the Metropolitan Trade Union is instructive : Here we can see how the general impulse to a fairer social order , one which would displace Owen 's ‘ old immoral world ’ , became concentrated upon parliamentary reform . |
| 28 | Thus we can see how the social policies of Italian Fascism failed to meat its objective of creating a classless society enough they did change one nature of the state and politics . |
| 29 | To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey . |
| 30 | We can tear up the unfavourable information folder . |