Example sentences of "we can [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't even begin to understand something we do n't think exists . |
| 2 | We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that . |
| 3 | We ca n't just keep asking the people that actually pay to come to the matches to do it all the time , they have to be supplemented from industry anyway . |
| 4 | It becomes so expensive erm and if we are going to get new facilities erm we ca n't just keep upgrading what we 've got now , we have to build new . |
| 5 | We 'll have to use all our rehearsal time for Luxembourg too — we ca n't possibly afford to have the full cast up here for longer than three weeks and we 'll need that for the new production . ’ |
| 6 | We can either freely choose to change , and enjoy the new challenges , or we can resist change until life forces us to grow , through unwelcome problems and traumas . |
| 7 | We can not even start to conceive what conditions might be like in that universe , but there is no reason to conclude , point-blank , that it does not exist . |
| 8 | You will enter my machine , he wrote , and the trip will consist in the discovery that we can not even get started . |
| 9 | They live in a world of scents and aromas which we can not even begin to comprehend . |
| 10 | Kant answers the first questions by contending that we can not strictly speaking know that there is such a moral law . |
| 11 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe the time has come when the Chamber should say that we can no longer afford to fund the lights from subscriptions alone , said Mr. King emphasising that unless all traders contribute there may well be no lights this year . |
| 13 | We can no longer afford to allow silence to put our health at risk . |
| 14 | We can no longer afford to have any high faluting ideas . |
| 15 | Or failing the gift of a sum in cash , I am asking you to make it a business transaction , to buy what you clearly must need and what we can no longer afford to keep . |
| 16 | However , most of us either no longer want to believe in the Ruskinian and Poundian relation between craftsmanlike performance and civic health , or else we tell ourselves ( perhaps with Pound 's fate before us as a cautionary tale ) that we can no longer afford to believe it . |
| 17 | ‘ Malingering is a luxury we can no longer afford to subsidise . ’ |