Example sentences of "[coord] we may [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do n't succeed in this then we may require other people to act as our parents , or we may regard others as a threat to this self-sufficiency and therefore avoid intimacy . |
| 2 | As usual it was the forerunner of a series of related drugs , and we may suppose Sternbach was allowed to withdraw his promise not to burden the pharmacologists . |
| 3 | We may not like what fans do and we may view aggro leaders and their like as unhappy reminders of a violent society in which we live . |
| 4 | We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small . |
| 5 | If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form |
| 6 | His reaction puzzles Banquo , but Macbeth explains it to us in an aside : The word ‘ swelling ’ is sometimes glossed by comparison with a stage thronged with people , but it also suggests pregnancy , and we may recall Angelo 's sense of ‘ the strong and swelling evil/Of my conception ’ . |
| 7 | In middle age the lens of the eye becomes harder , and we may need glasses to focus on near objects . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it may be , but we may get Place to tell us . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No , but we may have news of them . |
| 10 | The markets have already largely discounted this result but we may see shares and the pound slipping a bit further . |