Example sentences of "we can [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that if today we can give a little help to those who are carrying on the race the money will not be wasted , ’ ( House of Commons Debate , Vol. 300 , col. 1634 ) . |
| 2 | Perhaps we can offer a few pointers at this stage . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose we can stay a few minutes longer , ’ said Cathy . |
| 4 | Just bear with me a moment we can stay the same as we on subject specifics at the moment , we do n't have to change that , I 'm just trying to think in the light of national curriculum and what 's happening |
| 5 | We know horses like to caress and scratch each other with their muzzles and teeth , and we can copy the same sort of contact on the horse 's back , neck , or chest , with our fingertips . |
| 6 | We can expect no more than that , and we can certainly ask for no less . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll put some more earth on today and then we can plant a few turnips and such in it . |
| 8 | All right now that we can do numbers up to thirty one , let's see if we can do a few more dates . |
| 9 | The evolution of mammals after the Cretaceous was both extremely rapid and very complex , and we can do no more than give the roughest sketch here . |
| 10 | Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date . |
| 11 | So I think we may have to take this as part of the council meeting when we get a report back , cos obviously , there 's a degree of urgency in whatever we do about this , but I can suggest that we can do no more than report back to the next council meeting that we 've discussed this , and that it is in solicitor 's hands . |
| 12 | I mean I 've had Fife College on the phone as well saying you know why ca n't we do it and Alec we 're really now we can do no more until Napier come up if for some reason Napier fell down on the job then I think I 've got enough knowledge about what we 're doing now but I would start running it round the other colleges including Telford who are doing a distance learning course |
| 13 | Ok , only I have n't got time today , if we can do the that today look , might as well get done really . |
| 14 | They always find out as much as possible about the areas through which they move , and we can do the same . |
| 15 | It is surprising how often we forget that we can do the same with video . |
| 16 | We can do the same again . |
| 17 | We can other things however though , because we can do the same things for actual . |
| 18 | Let's us hope we can do the same for Alan Fennah and his parking fine . |
| 19 | and then we can do the same . |
| 20 | We can make a few more concluding points : |
| 21 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 22 | Now it so happens that we can make the same substitution of forms in an otherwise completely different sentence , producing an exactly parallel change of meaning : |
| 23 | As we go to press , Cheek by Jowl 's new production has not yet started rehearsals , so we can say no more than that the company tell us it will be in the ‘ uproarious tradition ’ of their previous Shakespeare comedies , and that 's good news . |
| 24 | This is — and we can say the same about a dozen or so batsmen in our region including Somerset 's luckless Ricky Bartlett and Gloucestershire 's Mark Alleyne — a crucial summer for him . |
| 25 | We can say the same kind of thing about improbabilities and miracles . |
| 26 | We can use the same approach to examine the self-representation of a particular ruler , taking again the example of a Roman emperor such as Augustus ( 31BC-AD 14 ) or Nero ( AD54-68 ) . |
| 27 | Well we can use the same decision rule and just change the subscripts by one , so you 've got gamma into P T minus two right , plus one minus gamma the expectation of T minus three , prices T minus two okay , and we could substitute right , the right hand side here , right , into the expec , into that expectation up there . |
| 28 | Note ; When we want to show that lines are of equal length , we can put the same mark on each line . |
| 29 | Consider the following one-syllable utterance : those We can find the same tonic syllable in a long utterance ( still of one tone-unit ) : give me those |
| 30 | Or we can describe the same action using a PASSIVE sentence , in which the subject of the sentence ( italicised below ) is acted upon ( rather than acting ) . |