Example sentences of "[vb mod] we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Must we go into that ? ’ |
2 | ‘ Oh , hell , ’ he muttered , ‘ must we go into it ? ’ |
3 | " Must we return without the bride , to the shame of our people ? " |
4 | What must we do to firm up the opinion of those who almost support us ? |
5 | Must we turn to the anthropic principle for an explanation ? |
6 | What , then , are the characteristics of these early estates and what features must we look for if we are to define the landscape arrangements in the pre-Conquest period ? |
7 | So what is on offer and what should we expect from these weighty tomes ? |
8 | Yet what degree of commitment should we expect from someone before we decide to label them a Jacobite ? |
9 | And what more , what more should we expect from a Party that is led nationally by a man who , in 1983 , says , there are no circumstances in which I would order or permit the firing of a nuclear weapon , which leads somebody to say , Kinnock 's lust for power is so great that he 's prepared to ditch any principle to get it . |
10 | Should we speak to this Crumwallis first , do you think , while the technical chaps are playing their games upstairs ? ’ |
11 | Even if we meet with fellow humans from other parts of our globe where the spoken and written languages are different , the common , basic sense of meaning which we carry in our minds is enough for us to communicate through gesture and signs and to know that , should we care to , we can learn each other 's language . |
12 | However , should we decide to consider the Bill in a Committee of the whole House , the first set of amendments tabled by the Opposition — should the Opposition win the vote or should we accede to them — would torpedo the Bill below the water line and sink it lock , stock and barrel . |
13 | What should we do with our enormous dog during his puppyhood ? |
14 | What should we do with our desire for God ? |
15 | If we do get the jewels , what should we do with them ? |
16 | What should we do with it ? |
17 | What should we do about this ? |
18 | As Cliff Drysdale , former top player turned television commentator , in chairing the seminar , put it , the two questions needing to be addressed are ‘ Is there a problem and if so , what can or should we do about it ? ’ |
19 | What should we do in the film industry ? |
20 | And what significance should we attach to this development ? |
21 | But what importance should we attach to these broad employment trends ? |
22 | But neither should we rely on it . |
23 | Even if we accept , as we should , that Thucydides is right about the ‘ truest cause ’ ( and in the passage last quoted he comes near to running together true cause and alleged reasons , so we should not try to separate them too sharply ) , there is still a major problem : what weight should we give to the various instances of encroachment ? |
24 | At gatherings of businessmen he was most often asked , ‘ Why should we trade with you ? |
25 | Should we complain to the Advertising Standards Authority ? |
26 | The second truism is one I shall need to answer the question : why should we want to be told the truth ? |
27 | What conclusions should we draw from this study ? |
28 | Another concerns the way in which selection acts , and in particular the target of selection : should we think of genes , or organisms , or populations , as being the entities which survive and reproduce , and upon which selection acts ? |
29 | How , therefore , should we think of the uses of language , in a way that could provide functional accounts of linguistic structure ? |
30 | Secondly , what is the nature of the links between the manufacturing and the service sectors and , thirdly , how should we think about service sector output ? |