Example sentences of "we can [verb] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been said that we can regard ATP as a common currency which must be spent to provide energy whenever it is needed — to drive chemical reactions , to cause muscles to contract , or to pump substances across membranes . |
| 2 | Using Bernstein 's terminology , we can characterize physics as a discipline which has ‘ strong frames ’ and ‘ strong classification ’ ; it is a subject in which ‘ the educational relationship tends to be hierarchical and ritualised , the educand seen as ignorant , with little status and few rights ’ . |
| 3 | If we condense this inconceivable time-span into an understandable concept , we can liken Earth to a person of 46 years of age . |
| 4 | By training one local villager we can bring change to a whole community . |
| 5 | What we can do is attempt to get hold of the rules of the game so that we can make sense of a game as it is played . |
| 6 | When we start to take responsibility for our thoughts and begin to see that every negative thought has a negative return , we realise we can use life like a beautiful game . |
| 7 | This book suggests many ways in which we can use video in a different way to viewing television . |
| 8 | Personally , I think we can dismiss suicide as a hollow threat . |
| 9 | I think if we get everybody by ooh , ten thirty we can have sort of a game of strip Trivial Pursuit . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , those of us deprived of information struggle on as best we can to make sense of a technological world which — despite Francis Bacon 's promise that modern science would make man ‘ the master and possessor of nature ’ — has once again amazed us with its vulnerability . |