Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summarizing our findings so far we may conclude that the ego , far from emerging fully formed , in fact underwent a very lengthy and indeed complex process of development in the evolution of the human race . |
| 2 | More generally , we may conclude that the Bain-Elsheikh study provides support from several countries for the effects of economic conditions and the influence of public policy upon union growth . |
| 3 | If there is little generalization of the new response to the test stimuli , we may conclude that the stimulus used in acquisition and that used in the test are readily discriminated . |
| 4 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 5 | To complete this discussion , we may observe that the companion matrix , or its equivalent — the regression formula , may be used to find complex roots of a determinantal equation ( see 1.7.6 ) . |
| 6 | One day we may hope that the spade and exploration under water will advance our knowledge much further and bring us close to the expanding merchant fleets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 7 | In a field that is patchy in space and time , be it ever so small , we may expect that the populations of a species such as white clover will , at any time , reflect selective forces from its past . |
| 8 | If such a model is correct , we may speculate that the movement of such female associated items may have been enhanced if the giving of women in marriage was at all common . |
| 9 | We may guess that a pipe flow with an artificially induced parabolic profile at the entry could remain laminar to even higher Reynolds numbers than flows with a normal entry length . |
| 10 | " We may regret that the Commissioners did not pursue a more spirited foreign policy and visit the United States of America , where , beyond a doubt , they would have seen results which would have qualified their condemnation of the combined system . |
| 11 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 12 | We may realise that a Muslim needs a place to roll out his prayer mat five times a day . |
| 13 | We may feel that the argument exposes idiosyncrasies in the concept of knowledge but that we can get by very well both for practical and philosophical purposes with the surviving notion of justified belief . |
| 14 | Similarly , we may find that a service is important symbolically or bolsters the social work profession . |
| 15 | For example , we may find that a job applicant for a position in sales was an international athlete in her teens ; on its own this piece of data is interesting but provides almost no insight into future performance in sales , especially if there is no demand for athletics in the job . |
| 16 | We may find that the writer was completely biased in his views and that he falsified his evidence , in which case he is a perjurer and we should hold him in contempt . |
| 17 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 18 | For instance , we may agree that the course should include such topics as word processing , graphics scanning and page makeup applications , but there could be debate as to which heading(s) they fall under . |
| 19 | We may say that a criterion of legal validity or source of law is supreme if rules identified by reference to it are still recognized as rules of the system , even if they conflict with rules identified by reference to the other criteria , whereas rules identified by reference to the latter are not so recognized if they conflict with the rules identified by reference to the supreme criterion . |
| 20 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 21 | Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread . |
| 22 | The characteristic parallel band contour for ν 2 ( a 1 ) and perpendicular contours for ν 5 and ν 6 ( e ) leave no doubt about the correct assignments , and so we may say that the germyl rocking frequency characteristically lies between 550 and 650 cm -1 . |
| 23 | Thus for the structural functionalist we may say that the ends ( social solidarity ) always justify the means ( social institutions ) . |
| 24 | Given that the subjects were trained not to raise the negative flap at all , we may say that the difference between associates established to the two stimuli was greater in the case in which the more extensive motor response was required — that is , in the condition that produced superior transfer to a test discrimination involving the same stimuli . |
| 25 | In place of saying that if the effect occurred so did the cause , we may say that the occurrence of the effect required that of the cause . |
| 26 | Consider the two underlined phrases : ( 3 ) I 'll get some German hock for the party I 'll get some German beer for the party Speaking of the latter phrase , we may say that the noun gives us an initial outline " semantic target area " beer while the adjective , by specifying an additional property , restricts the issue to just that part of the target area which the writer wishes to discuss . |
| 27 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 28 | Looking back , we may say that the years around 1300 were to attain some significance in this domain . |
| 29 | As a first approximation , we may say that an idiom 's syntactic behaviour is broadly determined by two factors : the syntactic structure of the literal counterpart of the idiom ( if it has one ) , and the fact that distinguishable syntactic constituents are not semantic constituents , and therefore are not open , for instance , to adjectival and adverbial modification , nor can they be isolated for emphasis , etc . |
| 30 | If we imagine the knight of Richard 's time riding into battle with a padded gambeson ( quilted body-armour ) , chain mail shirt and hose , topped by the huge helm , and swinging a heavy longsword — all in the blistering heat of the desert and against a much lighter-clad adversary — we may wonder that the crusaders managed to win any battles . |