Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 2 | We may not see this place again for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There are times when we may not find each other attractive . ’ |
| 4 | We may not have many estate agents and delis in Tottenham , but I like it here . |
| 5 | Well , we may not have enough time for that , so erm , let's imagine that you 're a sales director , and , now this is more difficult . |
| 6 | If Andropov is snubbed , and his overtures dismissed , we may not have another opportunity , even in the lifetime of the youngest among us . |
| 7 | We may even analyse such behaviour in semi-anthropomorphic terms . |
| 8 | At this rate we may even have several games in hand . |
| 9 | We may here respond that Quine is overreacting . |
| 10 | We may also choose another set of axes ( 1 " , 2 " , 3 " ) different from the first and in these axes the vector X has different components . |
| 11 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 12 | I think w we may well see some kind of shake out . |
| 13 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That we may swiftly pierce all defences , as our commanders have conceived we shall — |
| 15 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 16 | We may therefore say that sir conventionally implicates that the addressee is male and socially higher in rank than the speaker ( see Chapter 3 ) |
| 17 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 18 | I 'm hoping to get ashore after lunch for a while , but we may still get that swim . |
| 19 | The present value of the firm is now dependent on the firm 's results of its past investment policies ( Y t ) and the prospects of its current investment decisions ( I t ) We may now generalize this result so that the present value of the firm is independent of any future dividend decisions . |
| 20 | ‘ We ought not to lose any time . ’ |
| 21 | So I both the , both those disadvantages lead me to think that we ought not to unblock this area . |
| 22 | But we ought perhaps to give more attention to another fact . |
| 23 | Probably more than half of our VDU operator chairs will meet the standard , but we should urgently check all workstation environments using the standard EC/HSE assessment forms . |
| 24 | We should soon have more women MPs . |
| 25 | Likewise , we should soon have more MPs representing ethnic minorities wherever these formed a substantial part of the electorate . |
| 26 | We should also eat more fish . |
| 27 | We should also add some part of the cost of the increased numbers of general and senior managers , which rose from 510 in 1986 to 13200 in 1991 , Between 1987 and 1991 the salary bill for general managers rose from £25.7m to £251.5m . |
| 28 | We should not regard this situation lightly or allow ourselves to fall into a purely reactive management position . |
| 29 | Yet we should not forget that communication does involve handling everything together , usually at high speed , and that this is what a successful language student must eventually be able to do . |
| 30 | But I think we should not rush this decision . |