Example sentences of "[adv] we can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we have done all we can do here , Hugh . |
| 2 | Because the more we hear from our Customers , the better we can make our service . |
| 3 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't know how much we can throw . ’ |
| 5 | It will have to be the shortened version , I 'm afraid , but you 'll be surprised how much we can cover in a few hours . ’ |
| 6 | We are born with all the potentiality for intelligence we are ever going to have , and there is not all that much we can do except to achieve as much of that potential as the world and its intelligence experts will permit us . |
| 7 | In fact most of the pressures the wildlife face are actually out at sea and there 's not really all that much we can do when that 's the case . |
| 8 | Not much we can do , unless she stops drinking . |
| 9 | But Coun Dixon warned : ‘ There is only so much we can do . ’ |
| 10 | But Coun Dixon warned ; ‘ There is only so much we can do . |
| 11 | There is so much we can do ; there is so much we need to do . |
| 12 | Consequently , there has been a shift in concern away from whether we will survive financially or socially to how much we can reduce financial and other kinds of uncertainty . |
| 13 | The experiments were short-lasting ; and we do n't know how much we can apply figures from medieval England , with small dies of low relief , to the ancient world . |
| 14 | And imagine how much we can learn from them ! |
| 15 | And basically we can draw a line between an element in one set , and an element in the other , and say that represents some sort of relationship . |
| 16 | have n't got it right actually , I mean basically we can go up the top shop and buy what we like ca n't we ? |
| 17 | First and most basically we can look at the physical nature of the coins of any given period , as the study of the amount of silver or gold bullion in a coin may reveal some historical information . |
| 18 | Just tell us when she 's going , what 's going to happen to her , and how long we can expect her to be there . ’ |
| 19 | The question for us , whatever the situation about Labour Party links , is how long we can continue to argue for our members to support the Labour Party locally and nationally , to pay the political levy to a Party that treats this union and treats union members with utter and absolute contempt . |
| 20 | Wondering how long we can hold out . |
| 21 | Related to these results is the question of how long we can stay asleep ( in a laboratory that is always equally quiet , dark , and warm ) at different times of the day . |
| 22 | If the above sequence is written down we can see that the device is counting in binary . |
| 23 | The daftest thing to say , you do n't actually say this to them , you think oh hello , perhaps we can adapt that , perhaps it 's going to lead into something else . |
| 24 | So perhaps we can bluff it out and collect software by day leaving philosophical disquiet to the troubled night . |
| 25 | perhaps we can go into . |
| 26 | Perhaps we can go fishing now . ’ |
| 27 | Right , well we 'll get it all sorted for then and we 'll try and arrange a programme whereby we tie it up with Loretta or whoever that erm mom and I and Beth coming up to you and perhaps we can go out for lunch , yeah ? |
| 28 | Perhaps we can meet and talk about it all one of these days . |
| 29 | ‘ Then tomorrow night perhaps we can perform an experiment . ’ |
| 30 | that therefore it would be better not to be doing that , so perhaps we can change that , okay ? |