Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is little generalization of the new response to the test stimuli , we may conclude that the stimulus used in acquisition and that used in the test are readily discriminated . |
| 2 | More generally , we may conclude that the Bain-Elsheikh study provides support from several countries for the effects of economic conditions and the influence of public policy upon union growth . |
| 3 | From this we may conclude that the ‘ at least ’ sense of numerals is not established . |
| 4 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 5 | Since charged particles rarely travel close to the velocity of light we may conclude that the magnetic forces are by orders of magnitude smaller than the electric forces . |
| 6 | Summarizing our findings so far we may conclude that the ego , far from emerging fully formed , in fact underwent a very lengthy and indeed complex process of development in the evolution of the human race . |
| 7 | [ Ch 7 ] As a further example , we may observe that the formal rhetoric of parallelism , anaphora , etc is characteristic of Dickens in many of his moods : it is illustrated in passages [ 3 ] " [ 4 ] " and [ 5 ] . |
| 8 | To complete this discussion , we may observe that the companion matrix , or its equivalent — the regression formula , may be used to find complex roots of a determinantal equation ( see 1.7.6 ) . |
| 9 | One day we may hope that the spade and exploration under water will advance our knowledge much further and bring us close to the expanding merchant fleets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 10 | But we may hope that the small differences in binding energies that correspond to the chemical shifts between different samples will be correctly reproduced . |
| 11 | In a field that is patchy in space and time , be it ever so small , we may expect that the populations of a species such as white clover will , at any time , reflect selective forces from its past . |
| 12 | If such a model is correct , we may speculate that the movement of such female associated items may have been enhanced if the giving of women in marriage was at all common . |
| 13 | There were obvious problems resulting from the overcrowding of working-class homes but we may speculate that the social-purity agitation over incest reflected middle-class anxieties and tensions concerning the sanctity of the family rather than the objective reality of working-class conditions . |
| 14 | We may guess that a pipe flow with an artificially induced parabolic profile at the entry could remain laminar to even higher Reynolds numbers than flows with a normal entry length . |
| 15 | Whether the original low-tech replicators were mineral crystals or organic direct forerunners of DNA itself , we may guess that the ‘ power ’ they exercised was direct and elementary , like stickiness . |
| 16 | In short , we may guess that the original recension of Lex Salica , a work which included traditional legal custom as well as royal edicts , was compiled for Clovis , perhaps by Frankish lawmen , but certainly with the help of Roman lawyers . |
| 17 | " We may regret that the Commissioners did not pursue a more spirited foreign policy and visit the United States of America , where , beyond a doubt , they would have seen results which would have qualified their condemnation of the combined system . |
| 18 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 19 | We may realise that a Muslim needs a place to roll out his prayer mat five times a day . |
| 20 | We may feel that the argument exposes idiosyncrasies in the concept of knowledge but that we can get by very well both for practical and philosophical purposes with the surviving notion of justified belief . |
| 21 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 22 | Similarly , we may find that a service is important symbolically or bolsters the social work profession . |
| 23 | For example , we may find that a job applicant for a position in sales was an international athlete in her teens ; on its own this piece of data is interesting but provides almost no insight into future performance in sales , especially if there is no demand for athletics in the job . |
| 24 | We may find that the writer was completely biased in his views and that he falsified his evidence , in which case he is a perjurer and we should hold him in contempt . |
| 25 | We may find that the corporatist vision of the company is legitimating a structure of hierarchical managerial power by appealing to the purposes for which that power is exercised . |
| 26 | In respect of the supposed vicarious eroticism of the genre , however , we may argue that the unembarrassed and disembarrassed honesty of the fabliaux " sexual fantasies largely precludes any lingering upon the process of arousal in the form of a gradual uncovering of the tale 's sexual core . |
| 27 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 28 | For instance , we may agree that the course should include such topics as word processing , graphics scanning and page makeup applications , but there could be debate as to which heading(s) they fall under . |
| 29 | We may say that a criterion of legal validity or source of law is supreme if rules identified by reference to it are still recognized as rules of the system , even if they conflict with rules identified by reference to the other criteria , whereas rules identified by reference to the latter are not so recognized if they conflict with the rules identified by reference to the supreme criterion . |
| 30 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |