Example sentences of "can we [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Can we abandon half the globe to the caprice of peoples still in their infancy … ?
2 When , may I ask , can we expect another ‘ slim vol . ’ ?
3 When when can we expect this as a standard feature on the database ?
4 within the countryside and how can we create those m those .
5 How can we bring that message home in such a way that more and more people can locate their own individual efforts within it ?
6 Can we check that ?
7 How can we weave this theory into our theology and practice ?
8 Can , can we answer this question about why , why we 're stirring up misery ?
9 Given this confusing welter of competing and combining philosophies , can we reach any valid conclusions about the rightness or otherwise of punishment ?
10 How can we conceptualize this process ?
11 Teacher : How can we make this piece into a tube ?
12 How can we make some sense of it ?
13 Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ?
14 What this meant varied greatly from place to place and from time to time ; nor can we make any satisfactory generalizations about the nature of medieval law .
15 Yes children should be at school and not at work but how can we ignore all those millions of others now growing up without this opportunity .
16 Can we shift this table a bit that way or other way .
17 can we sing that last one by our self ?
18 Can we gather enough strength to go on ?
19 If long waves exist and are caused by the bunching of innovations , how can we explain that bunching ?
20 How can we explain this ? ’ he went on .
21 How can we explain this ascendancy of Christian indifference over Christian compassion ?
22 How can we explain this ?
23 So how , how can we explain this paradoxical situation of high unemployment in urban areas and rapid rates of er rural to urban migration ?
24 If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it .
25 Can we 'ave some tea and bacon-flavoured crisps ? ’ he inquired .
26 Can we avoid some of the worst aspects of the new game of the last decade of this century — the Green Game ?
27 How can we measure this ?
28 Can we face this ?
29 Given , as we have already implied , that pertinent external information might be acquired and stored in any functional or operational unit throughout the firm , if there is not some degree of central coordination , how can we ensure that information received from the environment in unit A is readily available and usable in unit B ?
30 But how can we ensure that action results from all of the recent rhetoric ?
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