Example sentences of "we should [adv] [vb infin] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , it seems most plausible to suppose that this enforcement operated within very strict limits , so that we should not speak of a general power of enforcement of modus for public purposes . |
| 2 | ‘ We should not talk of things like that . |
| 3 | McDowell objects that we should not think of what is really there in the world as something whose thereness has nothing to do with our responses to it . |
| 4 | It is even arguable that we should just speak of a clannish ‘ Heraklid aristocracy ’ and not subdivide further . |
| 5 | Generally , then , we should perhaps think of settlements being 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart as the norm . |
| 6 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 7 | I think we should now talk of heads rolling along the Potomac . |