Example sentences of "we can [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If we can but contrive to make two rooms warm , & wholesome , we will laugh in the faces of Gloom & Ill-lookingness . ’ |
| 2 | With reproduction essential for the maintenance of the species , we can but assume that there is a basic biological drive to create . |
| 3 | The English nation , wrote the parliamentarian soldier Walter Blith , ‘ might be made the paradise of the World , if we can but bring ingenuity into fashion . ’ |
| 4 | The landscape — the Earth and her sites — are our finest teachers , if we can but allow them to be so . |
| 5 | We can but guess at the extent of the use of wood or leather containers for storage , cooking , serving , eating and drinking . |
| 6 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 7 | What we need is to find a safe place soon , and I 'd rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we ca n't . " |
| 8 | and get as far as we can and break off about half past twelve for an hour |
| 9 | But we 're mighty anxious now we 've come all this way to get out into that jungle just as soon as we can and start hunting . " |
| 10 | We recycle everything we can and work in an environmentally friendly way , so I think these tests should be done on a regular basis . |
| 11 | We have to try to work as best we can and pray . ’ |
| 12 | But , as justly observed by you , we must do all we can and leave the rest to God . ’ |
| 13 | By and large , their message is that we should get rid of this Government as quickly as we can and put a Labour Government in their place . |
| 14 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 15 | Thus , concludes Popper , although we can never attain to Ultimate Truth , we can and do continually get nearer to it … |
| 16 | We are committed to making any changes that may be required to ensure that we can and do regulate effectively . |
| 17 | If we do not know what we believe and can not agree on what we believe , then is it not better to wait until we can and do . |
| 18 | We can and do make use of all kinds of resources in our own ways : we learn how to draw stickmen and produce our own graphics , we write and record our own audio dialogues , some institutions produce the bulk of their own print materials . |
| 19 | We can and do sometimes charge for this time , but where there are significant PR benefits for the Garden and its activities , and companies are not willing to pay , we do not charge . |
| 20 | Erm and and we could actually give if we if we can find some small reject ball bearings or roller bearings , then we can or reject I mean erm dead stock . |
| 21 | Do we chase the free range hens and find the eggs as best we can or do we put the hens into a battery ? |
| 22 | It is not the case that we can or do simply distinguish , in a completely neutral way , some major historical types of political system , even in the non-evolutionist manner that I have suggested ; for on one side , what is seen to be significant in the past is influenced by current concerns , and on the other side these concerns have , in any case , a very great practical importance and are bound to engage much of the attention of political thinkers . |