Example sentences of "[conj] can we [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone wish to add any comments on criterion three or can we move to four ? |
| 2 | Any more comments on this one or can we move to criterion seven ? |
| 3 | Any more comments on this one or can we move to eight ? |
| 4 | Thank you , anybody else want to raise anything on criterion six , or can we move to seven ? |
| 5 | So is it just part and parcel of ‘ human nature ’ or can we evolve , change and even move beyond it ? |
| 6 | ‘ That young woman — was that on live , or can we cut it ? ’ |
| 7 | Or can we call it totally de-recognition ? |
| 8 | Is it formal , or can we attend in rags ? |
| 9 | The key question was put forcefully and eloquently by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook : is the lack of an adequate penalty the root of the problem , or can we tackle the matter in other ways — for example , by extending motor schemes in the way he described ? |
| 10 | And if we 're keeping it in cash , can we buy some gilts ? or can we buy some fixed interest securities ? |
| 11 | ‘ Hello , are you busy , or can we interrupt ? |
| 12 | Can we erm does it have to be all on here or can we use ? |
| 13 | Do we want or can we afford to alienate our British friends ? |
| 14 | On the other hand we can not forget the trust placed in us by the general public , nor can we watch the gradual erosion of the original plans without a public protest , and a public request to the health authority to please think again . |
| 15 | We suggest that , while bicycles may be recognizable by reference to the fact that they are damaged ( as in ( 59 ) ) , we can not easily describe bicycles as belonging to us in the same respect ; nor can we refer to ideas as belonging to you inasmuch as they are " discussed " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nor can we do more than guess at the consequences of the Greek ignorance of Latin . |
| 18 | Only when this has been done , can any serious attempt be made to analyse any crucial stratified groups from civil or military sites , since we have no knowledge of the origins of the pottery , nor can we give a proper scientific description of the fabrics . |
| 19 | Nor can we measure it in the present if we regard the present as an indivisible instant that is truly momentary and without duration . |
| 20 | Nor can we think of the Christian God as three persons in the way that we normally consider them to be , or we would surely have to conclude that it was a religion committed to polytheism . |
| 21 | But we can not exclude an effect of ACE on the metabolism of other peptides in view of its wide substrate specificity , nor can we exclude the possibility that a variant of another gene , closely linked to the ACE gene , causes the observed association . |
| 22 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 23 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 24 | When we turn to that most distinctive feature of cave organisms , regressive evolution , we can not decide whether it is caused by selection or genetic drift ; nor can we settle whether allozymic variation is due to selection or drift . |
| 25 | Nor can we rely , if we ever could , on the free play of market forces to effect a coincidence of public and private good . |
| 26 | Nor can we say that context-specificity will never appear when aversive conditioning is used . |
| 27 | Nor can we say that only women have access to the powers of the night . |
| 28 | In conclusion , we confirm that there is good evidence for an increased incidence of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas among young people in Seascale , though we are unable to identify the cause of this increase ; nor can we say that our data and analyses either support or detract from the conclusions of Gardner et al . |
| 29 | Nor can we say that Megarians could have got nationals of other states to act as middlemen . |
| 30 | Nor can we appeal for explanation to the notion of Scaevola as provincial practitioner . |