Example sentences of "[that] we can [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kidnappers have just given us quite explicit instructions not to involve the police in any way , yet you claim that we can send a senior officer along on the pay-off itself without there being any risk ! ’ |
| 2 | Could all teams also inform us of the proposed date and venue of their tie so that we can send a photographer when possible . |
| 3 | But I do not believe that we can assemble a majority for anything as negative as ‘ get the Tories out ’ . |
| 4 | The concordance between Is for some attribute ( e.g. IQ ) may be higher than that between Ns so that we can infer a genetic effect . |
| 5 | It is essential that flora writers should make contact with external GIS providers , so that we can choose a system which will be related to their own needs . |
| 6 | Also er saw er Nick last week and he 's agreed that we can offer a similar sort of training scheme around the force people apply just for er a one day course so what I 'm saying to any community affairs staff |
| 7 | I wo n't wax eloquent about my doings etc … in the hope that we can arrange a rendezvous … |
| 8 | There is no doubt that we can fit a rule concerning evidentiary findings into our traditional terminology . |
| 9 | Now that there is every reason to believe that we can build a fusion reactor there is growing attention to technology . |
| 10 | It is about time that the Government accepted their responsibility for all sorts of things — for example , the rising unemployment levels , the rundown of the health service , the lack of measures to reduce homelessness and the failure of their economic policy to generate growth and investment to end the recession so that we can build a better Britain . |
| 11 | It is only through a living faith in God that we can make a new start in our emotional life with each other . |
| 12 | But we need to know a lot more about for example his housing costs , his rent and rate rebates that he may be entitled to and so on , before we can really say erm that we can make a proper comparison erm and different countries have different priorities . |
| 13 | However , she warned , " the fact that we are entering the path of economic development does not mean that we can expect a quick jump in living standards " . |
| 14 | But I see that we can go a little nearer . ’ |
| 15 | It is clear , first of all , that we can do a great deal to restore damaged waterways by using common sense and good engineering . |
| 16 | Evaluation , then , may require prior criteria against which the evaluation can be made ; but that does not mean that we can give a full and detailed account of those criteria . |
| 17 | ‘ Sure , we want to make profits to give our shareholders a reasonable return on their investment , and to enable us to maintain and enhance our capital base so that we can give a steadily better service to an ever larger number of customers . |
| 18 | And I do feel that by just following a few simple rules like that we can avoid a lot of the problems that come into our advice centre . |
| 19 | At first it seems that we can draw a sharp distinction between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 20 | The savings are so significant that we can pay a specialist mailing company to envelope , sort , bag and post the magazine for us ( this is a standard practice , very few organisations have sufficient staff to do this mammoth task , we certainly have n't ) . |
| 21 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 22 | The fascinating thing is that we can construct a complete family tree of all the globin genes , and even put dates on all the divergence points ( delta and beta globin parted company , for example , about 40 million years ago ; epsilon and gamma globins 100 million years ago ) . |
| 23 | The thing is that we can design a string , try it out and decide we like it , but Norman can actually take pictures of that sound so we can file it , compare it with the results from other strings and start to understand why we like that particular one . |
| 24 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 25 | This means that we can tell a star 's temperature from the spectrum of its light . ) |
| 26 | If we may define the purpose of pruning as stimulating , promoting , maintaining , directing and prolonging the vitality of the rose , it becomes evident that we can segregate a great many principles , dos and don'ts into those that are general and applicable to all roses , and those that are specific to particular species , types and varieties . |
| 27 | ‘ They 'll be going soon , Robyn , ’ ‘ Will you wait , so that we can enjoy a good , long , slow meal together ? ’ |
| 28 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 29 | We have a high number of volunteer carers at the day centre so that we can provide a 1–1 ratio to our 12 clients , therefore all the needs of the individual client can be met . |
| 30 | improving the quality and consistency of the monitoring of planning applications/policies by branches so that we can provide a better picture to the Welsh Office and politicians of environmentally damaging development trends ; and |