Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] we can [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm just praying that we can avoid the type of injuries that we got last season .
2 This is an important distinction because pluralist models suggest that we can draw conclusions about the influence of different interests only when groups can be observed at work on their behalf in the political process .
3 I do n't know that we can cost each individual item , but the whole work of reglazing and doing the parapet on the west front has cost us £80,000 .
4 But I do n't know that we can get in the day to day running of the Sports Centre .
5 Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies .
6 by no means all the battles have yet been won , but already we expect that we can break new ground if we really try hard enough ; we expect to seen our ambitions fulfilled if we have the talent and application to meet our goals .
7 ‘ The logic of standard English can not be distinguished from the logic of any other dialect of English by any test that we can find ’ ( Labov , 1973 , p. 52 ) .
8 We may need to confront this situation and realise that we can get greater support from people who have similar motivation to our own .
9 " There are those who say that we can turn away from the world , that we have no special role , no special place .
10 I can not stand here and guarantee that we can halt that long-term consolidation of holdings in agriculture .
11 It is surprising how often we forget that we can do the same with video .
12 Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm .
13 Let either of us know and we can send you details of where and when we are meeting etc .
14 Let us know and we can tell you more about it .
15 A third X cubed might be a a nicer way to write cos we can keep all our constants together
16 I do n't know if we can tell really much about such things , but I 'd have said it was n't from the same man . ’
17 I do n't know if we can dump this here .
18 I do n't know if we can squeeze any more or what
19 ‘ I do n't know if we can get you a ticket , ’ Paul says .
20 well I do n't know if we can get it there .
21 I , I , I do n't know if we can work with Mr through the A C C that , that his classifications , it 's , it 's , it 's a more major incident than some of the , some that are shown .
22 Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy , which is correlation and interpretation .
23 If the Commonwealth War Commission do n't know how to get hold of the War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission can give us the information we want provided we can give them the christian name of the person and the regiment .
24 ‘ It will be a great score in years to come if we can go ahead and lift the Sam Maguire , but if we lose it will count for nothing . ’
25 We must find a place in the ruins to hide until we can rouse him .
26 Well I say if we can go in and out and not stick indoors all the time you know ?
27 Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides .
28 Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time .
29 We are obliged to send the details to the Crown Prosecution Service , and in six months ’ time we shall know whether we can prosecute .
30 We will ensure that the total number of warheads on the four-boat Trident system is limited to no more than that currently deployed on the Polaris system , and our Defence Review will consider whether we can reduce this further without threatening security .
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