Example sentences of "we [modal v] beware of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should beware of supposing that , if Pound from the shades is looking at this present occasion , he is unreservedly gratified by what he sees . |
| 2 | The stories compellingly challenge Western stereotypes of the Asian woman , but perhaps we should beware of reading them too closely in relation to the Western experience . |
| 3 | We should beware of those who use the word glibly about a state of mind which has no social dimension . |
| 4 | ( Here , as we have previously noted , we should beware of confusing the methods of philosophy , and also those of the ‘ humanities ’ generally , with those of the natural sciences where the aim is to explain the behaviour of apparently diverse phenomena in terms of general laws ; the more general , the more fruitful . ) |
| 5 | Like our own time , the late nineteenth century saw a constant tension between the desire to exploit and the desire to conserve , and we should beware of identifying either of these attitudes with any particular development in the scientific study of life and its environment . |
| 6 | With the document being debated this week , we should beware of making branches accountable to its members , and increasing the numbers to one hundred gives us a greater base to work from than fifty . |
| 7 | In doing that , we should beware of too much partisan debate , of playing the race card and of charges and counter charges that sweep away reason . |
| 8 | However , without discounting this possibility altogether , we should beware of falling victim to a fairly common fallacy : mistaking an easily observed but minor or accidental by-product of a phenomenon for the cause of the phenomenon . |
| 9 | While we do this we must beware of those who are so hungry for authority in our societies that they want to press the authority of the Bible over men and the Church in such a way as to lead to extravagance or to sectarianism . |
| 10 | We must beware of hysterical solutions to complex problems urged by people whose real motive is often hatred of industry and capitalism . |
| 11 | But we must beware of going too far the other way . |
| 12 | But we must beware of cynicism . |
| 13 | We must beware of this tendency , even when we exploit it . |
| 14 | However , we must beware of interpretations which are deceptively simple . |
| 15 | Many of the current experiments have been interesting and thought.provoking ; none the less we must beware of the tendency to enjoy the use of the latest expensive and prestigious gadget and it is wise to remember Oettinger 's warning in his devastating book : |
| 16 | We must beware of the use of ethnicity to wrap a spurious cloak of legitimacy around the speaker who invokes it . |
| 17 | Whatever the modern relationships between scientific ecology and environmentalism , we must beware of assuming that similar relationships governed the attitudes of the biologists who first began the systematic study of ecology in the 1890s . |
| 18 | We must beware of such uses . |
| 19 | However , we must beware of the illusion that counterpoint always enhances the beauty of music , or that it has an inherent aesthetic value of its own . |
| 20 | We must beware of using an excessive number of motifs . |
| 21 | But we must beware of overconfidence — we have had false dawns before ! |
| 22 | Secondly , we must beware of the term ‘ medieval ’ . |
| 23 | The myth was used by early churchmen as a vehicle for expressing their horror and disgust at women 's bodies : ‘ What is the difference whether it is in a wife or in a mother , it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any other woman1 , ’ wrote St Augustine in the late fourth century . |