Example sentences of "[conj] we may " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite . |
| 2 | Where we may boast of our striving for perfection , Jesus had only humility . |
| 3 | There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information , eg when booking a holiday . |
| 4 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 5 | They exist in written messages too , where we may be influenced by handwriting or typography , and by whether the message is in an expensive book or on a scrap of paper . |
| 6 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 7 | Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone . |
| 8 | Or we may be determined to catch a horse that does n't want to be caught ; and if we feel it strongly enough , the horse seems to feel our determination too , and suddenly stops running away from us and agrees to being haltered . |
| 9 | Now we may be baddies and decide to erect a battery-house for laying hens , or we may be goodies and decide to create a wilderness park for wildlife . |
| 10 | Or we may say we do not want treatment which ‘ just keeps us alive without any hope of a cure ’ . |
| 11 | The counsellor may not be able to find the reason readily , or we may not like or agree with what we find , but nevertheless the reason will exist . |
| 12 | If we do n't succeed in this then we may require other people to act as our parents , or we may regard others as a threat to this self-sufficiency and therefore avoid intimacy . |
| 13 | Were it to be that Christian orthodoxy were that a man , Jesus of Nazareth , was God ( or we may say ‘ a god ’ ) , then there would be no hope that Christianity and feminism could be reconciled . |
| 14 | Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole . |
| 15 | If our patients have problems we can not cope with , we usually say so ; we may then simply advise going elsewhere , or we may act as advocates to ensure that the issues are properly taken on by others . |
| 16 | Or we may need the good word of this sub-prior from Ramsey , no less … |
| 17 | We will seek reassurance that we are loved in all kinds of bizarre ways rather than acknowledge there were times when we were not loved , or we may never have been loved , or even that we may have been hated . |
| 18 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 19 | We may not obtain it , or we may obtain it and find it renders us unhappy ; we must still believe in it . |
| 20 | We must be careful , Poole , or we may involve your master in some terrible danger . ’ |
| 21 | Or we may put different trends together to produce a novel outcome . |
| 22 | When searching , we may know where to look or we may have to scan around to find out where to direct our search more intensely . |
| 23 | In making a comparison we may be looking for points of similarity in order to aid our recognition ( and consequent action ) or we may be looking for points of difference . |
| 24 | We may ask an observer to carry a device which records his position , velocity and acceleration as a function of time as he mingles with the crowd or we may set up two observation posts at the entrance and count the number of people per second passing across the space between the posts . |
| 25 | We may feel we are expected to ‘ pull ourselves together ’ too quickly — or we may be unable to react to the death at all , even by crying . |
| 26 | Or we may live to see the vines ploughed up and turned into orchards as has been happening in other areas . ’ |
| 27 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 28 | Although we may claim that we simply publish an objective report , the inference that exceptional evil existed during the occupation of Kuwait will naturally be made by those trying to justify the devastating Allied bombardment of Iraq , now retrospectively . |
| 29 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
| 30 | Although we may want to reject Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) specific formulation , it remains possible that other versions of associative theory might be able to explain the findings on context-specificity . |