Example sentences of "but we can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ But we can answer some of the dear boy 's questions , ’ the Emissary put in , massaging my quadriceps . |
| 2 | But we can separate the two issues , reserving the question of individual responsibility as one to be taken up only after we have decided whether the group as a whole has met the standards appropriate for it . |
| 3 | We ca n't control the climate but we can control the air pollution . |
| 4 | Porterfield paid tribute to his developing side : ‘ It 's only December and there is a lot of football to play yet but we can stay near the top . |
| 5 | But we can go further than that . |
| 6 | We ca n't fly , but we can go by car . |
| 7 | We ca n't go back , Jessamy , but we can go forward — and on our own terms . |
| 8 | He 's still at the city centre hotel at the moment , but we can go over now to our political correspondent Fiona Ross who was in the audience . |
| 9 | Sit down and they , they swear to me when they 're talking to me and what have you , you know , but we can go into them without appointments , you know , we can work them in between . |
| 10 | Yes I know what you mean but yes er but we can go |
| 11 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 12 | No but we can go before or after . |
| 13 | But we can treat the zero exponent on the ladder of powers as the log , since its effect on the shape of data batches fits exactly at this point ; it corrects upward straggle more powerfully than taking roots , but it is not as strong a transformation as the reciprocal root , or reciprocals . |
| 14 | This is a take away , but we can treat it , take away three is the same as add minus three . |
| 15 | Such vast periods of time baffle the imagination , but we can form some idea of the relative duration of the major phases of the history of life if we compare the entire span , from these first beginnings until today , with one year . |
| 16 | The countdown to one of the country 's … one of the world 's oldest sporting challenges is underway … after a hundred sixty four years the score stands at 69 to 68 … the sport is rowing … the contest is the university boat race … they 'll be naming the crews on Monday … but we can meet the Oxford blue boat in our Friday Feature |
| 17 | But we can distinguish between wanted and unwanted sexual attention , especially important in universities where futures are forged . |
| 18 | God 's power resent with us in the here and now , we ca n't see it but we can feel it . |
| 19 | Not all of us have had those good experiences , but we can recapture in later life what we did not find in childhood . |
| 20 | But we can pass on experience whiich will be a great contribution . |
| 21 | that if we pass on some of your comments at the end of the section , maybe they 'll be able to arrange , maybe in two or three months time a visit that most of us can make , particularly those of you who missed it , because it is an important experience , but obviously quite difficult to arrange , because it involves real tenants and real people but we can pass that back , and I 'm sure the officers will consider it . |
| 22 | We can not change our outer situation , but we can change our attitude to it , which makes all the difference in the world . |
| 23 | We can not change what is happening inside , but we can change the hair condition by applying correctly prescribed , penetrating protein treatments to the hair . |
| 24 | Possible R O A , cross curricular , we 'd like to keep that as it is but we can change that . |
| 25 | We shall never know exactly the sequence of events in St Pierre on that morning , but we can build up a fairly accurate picture from the physical evidence of the ruins , and the reports of eyewitnesses . |
| 26 | We may not have the courage to scream for attention but we can ensure , by being ill , that we get it . |
| 27 | But we can stop him , I think , Watson . ’ |
| 28 | Since we do not have a year-long content analysis of the media we can not investigate the influence of a changing media consensus but we can analyse the differential effects of different elements of the media . |
| 29 | Of the three dissolved oxygen is the most important factor , but we can ignore none . |
| 30 | As might be expected , this basically simple idea has some fairly involved theoretical ramifications , but we can ignore these for present purposes . |