Example sentences of "we can come " in BNC.
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| 1 | general propositions … [ are ] certainly true … yet we can come to no knowledge of them merely by our senses ; because they can not reach to all the particulars included in the subjects of them . |
| 2 | ‘ We can come back for anything that 's left behind . |
| 3 | Through them we can come to know ourselves and others a little better . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , ’ Gorelli said , ‘ I 'm sure we can come to some arrangement here . ’ |
| 5 | Yet it is only through particular instances of truth that we can come to understand what it might mean to speak of absolute Truth . |
| 6 | She wants the marriage to survive , tearfully telling friends : ‘ Yes , we have a problem but hopefully we can come through it . ’ |
| 7 | I think we can come to some compromise , Mr Ryan , if you 're really interested . ‘ |
| 8 | The conclusion to which we can come is that cannibalism is rare but that , in extremis , it is something to which the human species will resort . |
| 9 | But Eastwood said : ‘ I am sure we can come to an arrangement whereby Kelley steps aside for a while . |
| 10 | Now I 'm focusing on this new record and not even considering anything that 's happened , and maybe we can come out absolved . ’ |
| 11 | If it is hard to remember you , Iosif , we can come to the Dubrovlag and watch the slow march of the men who have replaced your prisoners in the Oak Leaf camps . |
| 12 | I 'll run you back to Maggie 's and when you 've changed we can come back here and pick up your mini . |
| 13 | They represent some aspects of what I have called the representation problem , and it is only through further investigation of that problem , and by becoming clearer about how the various kinds of norm could relate to our biological inheritance , that we can come to see much about what biological constraints there might be , beyond the obvious ones , on social and ethical arrangements . |
| 14 | This appreciated , we can come to terms with the initially disquieting fact that the success and persistence of an ideology is , alas , no guarantee of truth . |
| 15 | And you 've got plenty of time , you 've got a fortnight elapse between the two , we can come up with ideas , like the idea of that ? |
| 16 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through . |
| 17 | ‘ It 'll be a ride , an' we can come back over Tower Bridge , ’ Chopper suggested . |
| 18 | Instead , each of us is thought of as starting more or less from scratch and the philosophical questions are how we can come from such a state , via our awareness of the passing show of sensory experience , to the sophisticated knowledge which we all have as members of a modern society . |
| 19 | ‘ All right , but only if we can come back here . |
| 20 | See there again we can come on here , and we can look down the back of . |
| 21 | I 'm sure we can come to some kind of accommodation , neh , Shih Tong ? ’ |
| 22 | If we mess up the printing we 've still got that , and we can come back to it |
| 23 | We can come back another time . ’ |
| 24 | From these starting points we can come to understand the dual effect of Dionysiac music on our Apolline capability . |
| 25 | No need to disturb the household , if we can come round to it from the other side . ’ |
| 26 | Thorfinn said , ‘ If the landings take place on the north side , they 'll have to look for more boats upriver and get themselves across till we can come . ’ |
| 27 | We can come back to this , I mean have you got any others ? |
| 28 | Yet in fact imagination can be the means by which we can come to understand reality . |
| 29 | Clearly , I do n't want to see us having just an open ended thing , that every time they get into trouble , we bail them out , but I do think that we need to give breathing space now , until we can come with a , a , a decent set of proposals for the future of the building . |
| 30 | It was an encouraging performance showing we can come back when it counts ( unlike last year ) . |