Example sentences of "can we [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Can we not finish our drinks Barry ? |
| 2 | Why can we not go down the same road ? |
| 3 | Can we not reach conclusions today which I sense has some possibility of consensus ? |
| 4 | Can , can we Mr chairman can we not suggest erm the fact that , to the three executives , that the subscription stay the same for three or six month period until unison and members are balloted on |
| 5 | If a passage can be reduced to a set of elementary propositions of the kind approximately represented in [ 9 ] , can we not regard this as the neutral , " styleless " version against which all other paraphrases , such as [ 8 ] , are stylistically marked in varying degrees ? |
| 6 | Then we 'll see can we not set you next in line for chief of Clan Gillian . ’ |
| 7 | Not only can we not recognize sounds as linguistic units unless concepts are attached to them ; we also can not entertain concepts independently of their physical manifestations , without , that is , evoking in our minds the verbal forms to which they are attached . |
| 8 | ‘ Why ? ’ she retorts , ‘ can we not give something back by doing our own work ? ’ |
| 9 | Surely , I thought , if we can do this with pensions can we not do the same with social security ? |
| 10 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 11 | Can we not do something |
| 12 | Sa this wo this kid went out having this bloody bath said can we not do this every day ? |
| 13 | Well can we not talk about page one first ? |
| 14 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 15 | Can we not talk the matter over later in private ? |
| 16 | Well can we not buy it see where stocks lie . |
| 17 | Please , please , please can we not destroy those part-time jobs ? |
| 18 | Can we not see in this new conviction of the importance of emotion and sensibility that awakening of feeling which his marriage had accomplished ? |
| 19 | How can we not fear them , and fearing them , how not hate them ? |
| 20 | Can we not use GIS technology to construct ‘ risk mosaics ’ ( Zeigler et al. 1983 ) , at a variety of spatial scales , akin to Hewitt and Burton 's ‘ hazardousness ’ of a place ? |
| 21 | Please can we not use . |
| 22 | Can we not have some where we are . ’ |
| 23 | Why can we not have achievement rises as management teams do . |
| 24 | Oh right can we not take her home ? |
| 25 | Can we not take them home ? |
| 26 | Can we not hear a little bit of it now ? |
| 27 | Can we not say that ‘ God was in the Buddha , teaching men the way of virtue and righteousness ’ , even though the Buddha did not clearly acknowledge God ? |
| 28 | Can we not say that we say if we do n't have agreement by the thirty first of January we can take someone like who we 've already identified who will do the job for the money and take at least one person on pending a decision on the salary increase ? |