Example sentences of "we can [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , even assuming , first , that the oppression has indeed been lifted , second , that we can speak of , and know , a time when that desire was ever free , and third , that we can speak meaningfully of a ‘ natural ’ or a ‘ liberated ’ desire ( and my argument questions all three assumptions ) , even assuming all this , liberated desire would still always be different from its pre-oppression counterpart . |
| 2 | ‘ We can hide there for a while . |
| 3 | Maybe we can talk quietly to a few of the men — one of the masons from Ballechin has a son who must be twenty . ’ |
| 4 | He is on a yacht , we can go there by a launch . |
| 5 | For the pure components , , and as ΔS M , the change in entropy on mixing , is given by then we can write so for a two component mixture |
| 6 | ‘ The signs are that we can work together on a more certain basis , that we can find principles on which we can agree . ’ |
| 7 | We can work together as a whole group in which there is a clear focus and a clear task . |
| 8 | Now we can look forward to a really big crowd at Goodison for Chelsea in the next round . |
| 9 | Viking makes a rare outing into the world of science fiction , though William Gibson is a writer with a strong mainstream following : Virtual Light ( £14.99 ) is set in a none-too-distant future where , according to Gibson , we can look forward to a new form of virtual reality , the virtual light of the title , and a religion based on Cable TV — shades of Philip K Dick here . |
| 10 | As the EC opens membership negotiations with the members of EFTA , and as we develop closer relations with the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe , we can look forward to a European Community which , by the year 2,000 , is truly becoming ‘ our Common European Home ’ . |
| 11 | We can turn now to a closer examination of the kinds of objectives possible . |