Example sentences of "can we [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Given this confusing welter of competing and combining philosophies , can we reach any valid conclusions about the rightness or otherwise of punishment ? |
2 | What this meant varied greatly from place to place and from time to time ; nor can we make any satisfactory generalizations about the nature of medieval law . |
3 | So how , how can we explain this paradoxical situation of high unemployment in urban areas and rapid rates of er rural to urban migration ? |
4 | How can we distinguish these major changes from more minor ones ? |
5 | How can we resolve this apparent contradiction ? |
6 | Please , dear Institute , can we drop this dreadful jargon . |
7 | That , th so that 's what you need to get a hold of , that 's when you need to think , how can we cash that out , how can we give that some content ? |
8 | But how can we combine these personal activities with the idea of God as salt or ( as in the last section ) light or existence , analogies which we apparently need when trying to make sense , for instance , of God 's omnipresence ? |
9 | Only rarely can we assess this spatial information in terms of settlement expansion and contraction through time . |
10 | Right , can we have 3434 calling Anthea , so that 's 3463 . |
11 | Please can we have some honest answers which really address the true situation ? |
12 | Can we have some more stottie please ? |
13 | Can we have , can we have some more carrier bags please ? |
14 | Can we have some more men up the yard , please . |
15 | How can we have any other bodies and blood than our own ? |
16 | Mummy when we take it out and can we play that other game ? |
17 | And if we 're keeping it in cash , can we buy some gilts ? or can we buy some fixed interest securities ? |
18 | But how can we find one black flag in all this snow ? |
19 | Only in nature and by a return to the land — in song , symbolism , in hiking and comradeship around the campfire — can we find that true alternative to the meaninglessness of modern life and its grasping materialism . |
20 | Where can we find six hundred pounds three times a year ? ’ |
21 | Anyway , where can we find this alleged brother ? ’ |
22 | So the question is ‘ merely ’ one of engineering : can we replicate these extreme conditions and create controlled nuclear fusion reactions while using less energy than at present ? |
23 | How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ? |