Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is important , however , is that if the question of whether there was one is raised , we may be uncertain about the answer . |
| 2 | This is why less sleep can be just as effective in restoring us physically , though we may be used to sleeping longer . |
| 3 | Much higher quality than the bioprinting rollers that we may be used to using . |
| 4 | It is accepting the lifestyle of Christ so that we may be usable for God 's glory . |
| 5 | Let us pray today that we may be gentle with ourselves , guarding ourselves from relationships that might exploit us or be hurtful . |
| 6 | Firstly , we may be critical of the way the field is set up , so that men and their behaviour are implicitly the norm and women 's behaviour becomes a deviation needing explanation . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , he is around — we may be sure of that ! |
| 8 | As Ortega and Paul Ricoeur have argued , a metaphor affirms and denies an identity between two things : in likening a girl 's cheek to a rose we may be impressed by the similarity but are aware of the difference . |
| 9 | We may be young to ourselves , but we will always be old to our children . |
| 10 | We may be convinced in our minds of the Bible 's authority : we will be even more convinced when we allow it to have its authority in our lives . |
| 11 | In addition to the overall distributional impact of policy , we may be concerned with the effect on particular groups of individuals . |
| 12 | We may be useless at football , cricket and the Eurovision Song Contest , but there is still ONE thing that the English excel at . |
| 13 | Another conclusion must be that if we as teachers are relative experts in our own subjects , and tend to read textbooks in our own subject area with the same skills as the Cornell students , then we may be insensitive to inadequacies in those textbooks . |
| 14 | Secondly , we may be suspicious of many actual findings , asking how far they are distorted by theoretical or methodological bias . |
| 15 | We may be interested in the price comparison or in the quantity of stamps bought . |
| 16 | We may be able to actually narrow it down to a particular bug and that 's what these are for . |
| 17 | I I I sir that we we may be able to erm argue that here today it may be very difficult once it 's established , especially in the public mind that that that there is that there E two land I fear would be not only interpreted unless there 's some justification for me saying this because that 's what it says in the in the in the Harrogate Rural Areas Plan . |
| 18 | Which I hope we may be able to in April because really they are a disgrace at the moment . |
| 19 | We may be ashamed of what we 've said or done . |
| 20 | We may be appalled by what we find , but there is also consolation in discovering even trivial aspects of the lives of parents and ancestors whose histories we identify with our own . |
| 21 | Our dependence on tools … . means that a large part of the mental capacity of a human culture exists outside the individual , whereas in non-manipulative dolphins it is still embodied in brain and behaviour … . as social beings … . we may be inferior to many cetaceans . ’ |
| 22 | Since later events were to show that women compositors were by no means incapable of taking action , we may be sceptical about " apathy " as the sole explanation for the collapse of the early attempt to form a union . |
| 23 | We may be nostalgic for the security of those old standards which have been dissolved by changing conditions and needs , and by the opening up of viewpoints which have only lately become articulate , of women , working-class , blacks , Third World , homosexuals . |
| 24 | If we knew the answer to this question , we should be close to understanding the clinically important issue of how the expression of opsin genes is controlled . |
| 25 | We should be alert for the side-effects of critical doubt . |
| 26 | As members of WACC , we should be alert to all these issues . |
| 27 | We should be worrying about Barbs . |
| 28 | I think there are perhaps one or two who are very , very aware and are making their own life uncomfortable about it , but I think they 're so much in the minority that it 's the other lot that we should be worrying about . |
| 29 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 30 | If we were to count them as well we should be guilty of double- or even triple-counting . |