Example sentences of "we can [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 2 | In parallel with this , we can identify assimilation of place , of manner and of voicing in consonants . |
| 3 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 4 | If we reject the idea that context is situation ( although I have accommodated the concept of situation in my definition of context ) we can treat deixis in poetry not as a kind of " pseudo-deixis ' , as some critics such as Culler ( 1974 ) have suggested , but simply as deixis framed by a particular genre . |
| 5 | We can distinguish monodentate from bidentate sulfate , or terminal from bridging CO ligands , and we can use variations in the CO stretching frequencies in metal carbonyls to make deductions about the electronic natures of the other ligands . |
| 6 | We can offer advice on suitability and make appropriate arrangements where possible . |
| 7 | I do not see how we can separate principle from practice , policy from implementation . |
| 8 | Bishops , archdeacons , canons , civil servants , monks : these are the men whose lives we may study in the sources , whom we can meet face to face in their own writings , the educated , privileged clergy . |
| 9 | We can contrast centralisation with decentralisation . |
| 10 | Another er important point is that now we can make use of text books that were not available in the past , we got a lot of help from er West German publishing houses , because they provided East German English teachers with er text books , with cassettes and other teaching material , er and that will help to improve the whole teaching situation in that part of Germany . |
| 11 | To love someone means that when that person dies we can suffer sorrow upon sorrow . |
| 12 | I have drafted some further thoughts on what I think is required in the hope that we can reach agreement on form the index should take . |
| 13 | because of that we can control , we can say turn on turn off whether they let the electricity go through or not . |
| 14 | We need the Inverness unit back so we can keep trouble at bay . ’ |
| 15 | Erm I think that 's ab the best that though we can get word of mouth , erm getting to know the individuals . |
| 16 | We can maintain control of conversation by avoiding other people 's agendas . |
| 17 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 18 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |