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Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] we [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1	He further pondered two opposing maxims , Benjamin Franklin 's ‘ We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately ’ , and Karl Liebknecht 's ‘ The basic law of capitalism is you or I , not both you and I ’ .
2	‘ Penny , this is Miss Broome — or perhaps we may call you Ianthe ?
3	Or perhaps we wo n't .
4	If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ .
5	We can see that he had two views of what constitutes a ‘ law ’ , or perhaps we should say that he had two views as to how ‘ laws ’ manifest themselves .
6	Or perhaps we should say , Frenchly baked every day .
7	Enclosure made things more difficult , or perhaps we should say necessitated new and exciting skills , but at least there were no close ranks of trees to make the fences impossible .
8	They might appear there when normal syntax has to be subordinated to the exigencies of poetry ( or perhaps we should say " of unskilful poetry " ) and they may occur postnominally in prose in one or two special constructions .
9	" Well , or perhaps we could make some .
10	But at the end of the discussions between the project coordinator and the client , when you have actually helped him and led along , you could have this , or you could have that , or perhaps we could just take it to this stage , cost some options out and give you a recommendation .
11	We have in our contract that more or less we will get out after three weeks .
12	Maybe in a year or so we 'll stop using contraceptives . ’
13	Yeah , leave the front room , we 'll have to , first week or so we 'll have to live in that back room
14	Erm , I take the view that we ought to try and make the existing arrangements work and we are fast approaching a very key point er in that process erm I understand that on Thursday , er securities and investments board , the board will consider the er P I A , proposed P I A prospectus and that er within a week or so we shall all be able to read it and to look at it erm and the key point , which really is arises out of what we 're discussing tonight , the key point is what regulatory framework should the P I A place on intermediaries and on er life assurance companies , pension funds , financial advisors generally er in order to ensure that the public interest is protected and that if there are potential frauds erm such as the Levitt case er that we talked about earlier and I think the honourable member in sort of by implication in terms of er community service , er punishments that he referred to , er had also that in mind , er just what should we do to ensure that if there is malpractice and fraud , it 's picked up very , very quickly .
15	Yet he is included quite correctly on the Bayeux memorial to the missing as belonging to the S.A.S. By some error , however , his name is omitted altogether from the Edinburgh University war memorial under the arches of the Old Quad , where daily we used to meet .
16	If you are able to send a total of £35 or more we will show our thanks by sending you a free copy of ‘ How to be Green ’ .
17	If the proposition we start out with is simply that men exist — which , we are told , should be more appropriately expressed as ( Ex ) x is a man — then no doubt sooner or later we shall run into Jones and will be able to proclaim the happy discovery .
18	Sooner or later we 'll all end up in Heaven , although this heaven is on earth and a really terrific disco where you can drink at one of four bars and dance beneath the stars .
19	So I suppose one day sooner or later we 'll have to do this disgusting thing in order for me not to be barren , but I do n't look forward to it .
20	There 's another few weeks have drifted and sooner or later we 'll have to start making .
21	It is quite a small world , and sooner or later we might be lucky enough to get someone really close to Leeds on the list .
22	Sooner or later we would have discovered what was going on . ’
23	Sooner or later we must find somewhere that we can know really belongs to us .
24	If this does not happen then sooner or later we can all dig a hole and get in .
25	If we are not yet ready for such a grave ceremony , sooner or later we will be ; and if anyone thinks it macabre or mawkish , let them first read Derek Humphry 's moving account in his book Jean 's Way of how , when his wife had entered the terminal stage of bone cancer , he and she sat together over coffee and she took the pill which , with her full approval , he had obtained and kept safe for the occasion , and how she died peacefully in his arms .
26	or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot ,
27	However , there is an even stronger reason given in James 4:13 and 14 : ‘ Now listen , you who say , ‘ Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city , spend a year there , carry on business and make money . ’
28	Or alternatively we can accept the differences and reject the conclusions drawn from them , stressing instead the value of women 's ways of doing things .
29	Directly or indirectly we could ‘ ask ’ him/her , but our requirement is that an observer acting at a distance can observe what a pupil does and thence infer satisfaction in response .
30	and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement .