Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we certainly do not wish to get diverted into a consideration of the nominal patterns of English , we may mention that even in a case like : ( 6 ) Claudia is a bus-driver we have no doubt that the relation is still one of equation . |
| 2 | We may assume that very often they exploited ignorance and helplessness , though the extremes of contract labour and debt serfdom were probably un-common in this period , except among the Indians and Chinese shipped abroad for plantation work . |
| 3 | Lastly , we may notice that even a wrongful possession , if continued for a certain length of time , matures into what may be , for practical purposes , indistinguishable from ownership . |
| 4 | First , we may notice that almost half the concrete nouns refer to general topographical features which , as it were , divide the field of vision into geographical areas and points of focus : domain , ocean , islets , sea , shore , sky , river , earth , cloud , guy , etc . |
| 5 | Perhaps if we look beyond superficial disagreements we may find that today 's men and women of influence share fundamental beliefs and that these beliefs can inspire a common approach to community care . |
| 6 | Similarly , we may say that merely verbal errors can be corrected in standard ways . |
| 7 | This must be equal to the integral over the surface were v is the velocity and — the density ; n is the outward normal to the surface S which enclosed V. By Gauss 's theorem we may write and hence Since this must be true for any volume element we have the equation of continuity The conservation of momentum in continuum mechanics relates the rate of change of the momentum integrated over a volume V to the resultant of the forces on that volume . |
| 8 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 9 | In reply to this we may claim that only by considering unrealized possibilities can we define the nature of a writer 's achievement . |
| 10 | As Mr Glancey points out , there is much modern building that we may describe as passively mediocre , ‘ half-hearted Post-Modern ’ . |
| 11 | But people are much more likely — and we should stress that only the lunatic fringe is involved — to believe it necessary that those they perceive as only minimally inferior to themselves should be annihilated . |
| 12 | We should remember that neither Marx nor Engels , his co-author , proposed a theory of crime ; and it has been later social theorists working within a Marxist framework who have developed a Marxist theory of crime . |
| 13 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |
| 14 | Mr Mayor on on a point of order Mr Mayor er standing order sixty two refers explicitly to community charge or the poll tax , I think that before we move into this debate we should amend that so that it does refer to the council tax which is what we will be debating . |
| 15 | On the basis of this analogy we may call a ring current a magnetic dipole , or more precisely we should say that sufficiently far away from a ring current the magnetic field appears as if it was created by two closely spaced magnetic charges ( which of course do not exist ) . |
| 16 | Working together , we must design and gradually put into place a new architecture for a new era . |
| 17 | As the government of Norway was to state during the free trade discussions of 1958 , ‘ whatever the United Kingdom does we must do as well ’ . |
| 18 | Also taking into account any other P H I benefits we must do as well . |
| 19 | ‘ We must leave as soon as we can . |
| 20 | So if we want to support pragmatism on the second , political dimension , we must accept and then exploit its central feature , its skepticism about legal rights . |
| 21 | Therefore , before embarking on a policy of immediate angioplasty for patients with failed thrombolysis , we must recognise that even in centres with extensive experience involving angioplasty , there is still a substantial risk of mortality and that opening the vessel may not improve short-term mortality . |
| 22 | Most importantly , however , we must recognise that neither the individualistic man nor the collectivist man of the philosophers is truly Christian . |
| 23 | When we are talking about the end of privilege and we are talking about the future and training , we must remember that over half the population are hard done by . |
| 24 | When Charles heard this news , and we must remember that even the fastest military courier might take weeks to bring such a message , he returned to Saxony with astonishing speed , taking the Saxons by surprise . |
| 25 | It may be that we must wait until all has been answered before hoping for enlightenment . |
| 26 | But I 'm sure we 'll man we 'll manage that okay . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ said Llewelyn heavily , ‘ we 'll manage as best we can . |
| 28 | Right , we 'll go and home some lunch , dinner then shall we ? |
| 29 | So I said Bill we 'll tape that so if there 's owt on |
| 30 | We 'll do as well with the two of us do n't you think ? |