Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The intellect merely helps us choose the means by which we may best achieve ends dictated by our instincts . |
| 32 | In some ways we should consider ourselves lucky if we get these types of responses to stress , because for others , unfortunately , there are other responses to stress that may also occur , such as ulcers and heart disease , from which we may get less warning . |
| 33 | Subsequently we look for and find , or even create , the early signals , we magnify these signals , making catastrophic interpretations and predictions which we may or may not be aware of and we may begin to hyperventilate , thereby creating a full-blown panic attack as the stress glass fills rapidly up . |
| 34 | What is being compared ultimately is our own response to works of art and to the qualities of simplicity in early Cycladic art , which we may compare with our own feeling for the qualities of simplicity in some of this century 's art . |
| 35 | Yet Conrad uses these elements , which we may term romantic , in a way that sets him far from stories , seemingly similar , by ( say ) Rider Haggard or Buchan . |
| 36 | The dream ( on which we may try hard to impose a narrative structure , to make sense of it ) is unlike much fantasy in that it often does n't , of itself , contain any such structure , and the ‘ story ’ , if it tells one , may be deeply unintelligible to us . |
| 37 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 38 | Important , too , although not always easy to evaluate , is the evidence which we may call literary , not merely the chronicles , but rather the tracts , pamphlets , newsletters and even poetry through which people expressed their ideas and views , as well as their emotions , on contemporary issues and problems , which might be the need for government to be better managed , hope of peace , or the criteria according to which society 's military leaders should be chosen . |
| 39 | Plainly , in the minds of the Pioneers they were ; yet Cole uses language from which we may infer that they were not . |
| 40 | When a child is a listener to adult conversation ( which we may call ‘ dialogue at first hand ’ ) the identity of the speakers is normally obvious . |
| 41 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 42 | What do we believe of the connections between such a set , which we may call a causal circumstance , and the effect ? |
| 43 | Compare what we take to be the true causal circumstance for last night , which we may label the solar conditions . |
| 44 | This has to do both with what are called states of affairs , which we may take ultimately to be a matter of individual properties , and also what are called laws . |
| 45 | Style is a relational term : we talk about " the style of x " , referring through " style " to characteristics of language use , and correlating these with some extralinguistic x , which we may call the stylistic DOMAIN . |
| 46 | Rather , an enlightened dualist will search for some significance , which we may call STYLISTIC VALUE , in a writer 's choice to express his sense in this rather than that way . |
| 47 | However , if D = Diag(1,2,3) we have that unc so that e = g = h = k = 0 leaving unc which we may write as Block Diag unc where unc Finally , we note that if unc for all i , then |
| 48 | But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence … |
| 49 | All these levels may be seen as controlled by the relationship of the people involved in the discourse , which we may regard as the highest level . |
| 50 | However , in England the principle has been inflated into a much more extreme dogma which we may call the ‘ extravagant version ’ of the doctrine . |
| 51 | ‘ In future cases where a new regime comes to power unconstitutionally our attitude on the question of whether it qualifies to be treated as a government , will be left to be inferred from the nature of the dealings , if any , which we may have with it , and in particular on whether we are dealing with it on a normal government to government basis . |
| 52 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 53 | The program considers every possible move which the laws of the game allow it to make , and arrives at various positions which we may call HisPos . |
| 54 | Perhaps the simplest of these is the expression , ‘ It is the law that … ’ , which we may find on the lips not only of judges , but of ordinary men living under a legal system , when they identify a given rule of the system … |
| 55 | ‘ Also I am concerned about the strength of the winds and currents which we may encounter once we have left the shelter of the land . ’ |
| 56 | Another related problem is in the general vagueness of the relationship between the constraints of capitalism and the scope for state autonomy and pluralistic policy-making processes — none of the structuralist approaches offer clear criteria according to which we may define the limits of each . |
| 57 | Changing dates , numbers travelling or holiday type are major changes which we may have to treat as cancellation and subsequent re-booking . |
| 58 | These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us . |
| 59 | To describe the positions and velocities of atoms in a polymer requires choosing a set of global axes , defining a continuum , with reference to which we may describe the positions and velocities of the atoms . |
| 60 | I think , I think I 'm actually seeking your approval then to spend additional thousand pounds from our balances for this safety work , which we may well be able to top up later in the discussion this evening . |