Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] we [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly we could 've or we could accept the status quo and and do what the county council 's suggesting . |
| 2 | But I 've just realised where we might find some of the answers we 're looking for . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm just praying that we can avoid the type of injuries that we got last season . |
| 4 | remember that just a few weeks ago that you were de , almost denying that we 'd have to do this sort of thing ! |
| 5 | I am not , then , when I claim that the existence of God does not need to be proved , denying that we must show it to be reasonable to believe in God . |
| 6 | These suggest that we might use unc = 20 , unc = 10 in ( 2.6.1 ) ; we have already used unc = 0 to obtain |
| 7 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 8 | Such scholars suggest that we should analyse pornographic representations as representations , not causes of social behaviour . |
| 9 | I suggest that we should delay submitting this to Number Ten until you have had a chance to draft the actual terms of reference , as you propose . |
| 10 | If you look at the range now available , they suggest that we could use video for these purposes : |
| 11 | This is an important distinction because pluralist models suggest that we can draw conclusions about the influence of different interests only when groups can be observed at work on their behalf in the political process . |
| 12 | What crime have we committed that we should have to live in this way ? ’ |
| 13 | By the time the Winterthur show came around in 1990 I thought it would be interesting to exhibit just the paintings and when Nick Serota , the Director of the Tate , proposed that we might put on another retrospective at his gallery I felt more sure of myself . |
| 14 | Some writers ( e.g. Maslow ) in the sixties and seventies proposed that we could rank these needs into a hierarchy and predict the order in which individuals would try to satisfy their ‘ needs ’ . |
| 15 | So I went upstairs and proposed that we should do a house-to-house on those two areas . |
| 16 | He proposed that we should test things by the evidence of our senses . |
| 17 | I do n't know that we should Do we all do we want to go together |
| 18 | So she smiled on and stood there and in exasperation Mrs Browning said , ‘ I do not know that we should continue this discussion , Wilson . |
| 19 | This just lets you know that we will pay you travel costs to and from |
| 20 | I do n't know that we can cost each individual item , but the whole work of reglazing and doing the parapet on the west front has cost us £80,000 . |
| 21 | But I do n't know that we can get in the day to day running of the Sports Centre . |
| 22 | But if we are seriously interested in promoting the quality of higher education , of improving the effectiveness by which teachers teach and students learn , it is to the teaching process that we must look . |
| 23 | Teachers were reminded that we would need nominations for the three places becoming vacant on the Executive Committee for the coming year . |
| 24 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 25 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 26 | ‘ … it will be a great thing not to have to depend on the fickle wind for making a passage , and still more to know that we may pounce down upon those rascally fast-sailing dhows whenever we can sight them in a calm , and be sure of overtaking them … ’ |
| 27 | It is extremely gratifying to know that we will have a knowledgeable and committed environmentalist in the House of Lords on whom we can rely for help whenever the need arises . |
| 28 | Then we decided during one of my hospital visits that we should try again . |
| 29 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 30 | I anticipate that in 1991 we will re-visit most of these subjects and I expect that we will address several others such as skills shortages , innovation policy and education policy proposals . |