Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Braverman says ‘ We may cite here particularly the mass employment of draftsmen and technicians , engineers and accountants , nurses and teachers ’ . |
| 2 | We may go so far as to suggest that each reader has a " stylistic competence " , analogous to and additional to the " linguistic competence " shared ( according to Chomsky ) by all native speakers of a language . |
| 3 | Possibly , we may know more still about her : that she has always voted Labour , believes in capital punishment , and thinks multinational firms are manipulating the world ; likes reading romances , does the pools regularly , and watches Coronation Street every week … . |
| 4 | We must and we may share forever forever he turned to God , our to he . |
| 5 | We may question how far these arguments were heeded , given the radical reputation of their proponents . |
| 6 | God knows , we may come together again one day ! ’ |
| 7 | Given that we may have yet more to learn about human reproduction , it must be said that it is not a case of ‘ views ’ which may or may not be right . |
| 8 | Nowadays we may respond more readily to the sharpness of actuality than to the romantic atmosphere more natural to the adventure story in the past . |
| 9 | While the whole theological context of that chapter was important , we may note here especially the stress on the priesthood of all the faithful — a theme that Luther made much of , but which Catholic tradition had downgraded ever since . |
| 10 | We may take as quite different examples of such endeavours the theories of Spencer and Marx . |
| 11 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry to rush you out , but we ought to leave straight away if we 're going to get a table . |
| 13 | Paul , we ought to leave here soon , in case they come looking . ’ |
| 14 | I think perhaps we ought to go up now and hope the weather 's better in the morning . ’ |
| 15 | And it would seem to me that unless this morning 's exercise which has been so rewarding and so profitable unless this morning 's exercise is to dissipate into another piece of feeling and er pleasurable discussion then we ought to take quite seriously the , the words of Jesus . |
| 16 | Anyway , we ought to do well here . |
| 17 | He giggled : ‘ We ought to creep out singly for an assignation . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , erm , right , yeah , that 's all the other items , erm what 's been er been going through my head recently is , is er the , looking at the pattern of the meetings and the way the meetings are arranged and , and how , erm , at the last meeting we had a speaker er and that I think , we all found that quite interesting and the one , one from Central America that things and I feel we ought to have that much more frequently than we do have er , a , either a speaker or a focus of some sort of meetings erm , so I think that 's something I 'd like to raise and get the A G M at the next meeting I think similar thing we ought to consider there . |
| 19 | And , although I was instantaneously and utterly in love with you — and quite determined that we should marry as soon as possible — I have been trying my damnedest to keep some kind of control over my emotions . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 21 | I , I , I , I do n't think we should pass too lightly over what Mrs has said , it does seem extraordinary in that , er , someone who 's locked out of their house , and the fire service comes along and opens the door for them comes under office , and mains and miscellaneous , and then a major , er , a plane crash is also classified like that . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes I do n't think we should speak again either . |
| 23 | In the phonetic/phonological dimension , I do not think we should speak too readily of Early Modern ‘ Standard ’ English . |
| 24 | ‘ You are n't intending that we should set up home together ? |
| 25 | Suddenly , salvation : Jo took hold of my arm and dragged me away , giving several extremely good reasons why we should leave as soon as possible . |
| 26 | I persuaded him that we should go away together , just the two of us . |
| 27 | I think we should go over just now . |
| 28 | Discuss if we should go out socially , er it becomes a kind of religion ! |
| 29 | To conclude I think that we should go along rather than hope sort of an aspect of Conservative philosophy which is that people should be encouraged to earn money and they should be encouraged to save money and that therefore in this case this means proposing this Conservative motion , though I hope they will actually have the common sense to withdraw it . |
| 30 | When we have had tea , I think we should go home together and ask her . |