Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 2 | We may of course get different amounts of utility if our tastes differ , but we all consume the same quantity . |
| 3 | Erm we may of course go to Bowness next year if the circumstances change and we can manage it that will course cost a fair amount of money but that remains to be seen , we 'll have to wait and see how the club progresses during the year whether we think we can do it . |
| 4 | Thus in the absence of complications due to symmetry , we may in principle count the number of CO ligands in a complex simply by counting the CO stretching bands in the vibrational spectrum . |
| 5 | Close links with Heidelberg , the major German printing press manufacturer , give us hope that we may in time become a test-bed for Direct Imaging driven from our Macintosh pre-press system . |
| 6 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 7 | Even when we do not follow a conscious spiritual path in terms of a religious faith , we may in fact be realising our purpose in some other way . |
| 8 | We may in fact know more and not less about a fictional character than about most real people of our acquaintance . |
| 9 | We may in fact anticipate some slippage in the timetable as a result of two factors . |
| 10 | Well they can Erm so e e and and we ought to provision probably for a thousand . |
| 11 | I think before we take any urgent action we ought to Alan ought to monitor the situation . |
| 12 | I thought this sort of thing would be something the Green Party nationally should decide that whether in principle we ought to affiliate with . |
| 13 | I think we ought to sort of |
| 14 | We should for instance clearly specify whether or not we intend issuing a formal valuation report/opinion . |
| 15 | Then came Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and miraculously the whole things was over , instead of our having to face what would probably be a long naval and air war against Japan , which we should of course have won in the end — after unthinkable losses of men and equipment . |
| 16 | We should of course be aware that we do not know what Jesus himself said : we do not have his words verbatim . |
| 17 | One reason for that drifting away is that , as a result of the Government 's failure to obey European Community rules , we are not getting the money that we should under RECHAR . |
| 18 | Well we should in time for tonight . |
| 19 | And the third year eight perc eight and a half percent of the market we should in fact of two million two er thirty hundred and thirty four erm thousand pounds . |
| 20 | If this new regulation comes through they 'll be part of a new seat but if in fact they do n't have this regulation come into effect they 'll belong to another s and when you 've had in fact in Southend say the lowest recorded percentage voting of any constituency in England at the last Euro elections I think it 's terrible important we should in fact explain to people whether this is likely to happen . |
| 21 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 22 | proposed that we should in effect give the money to erm a non county body involved in this , to allocate , to work out both the basis of the allocation and the allocation funds in this order , we think that 's inappropriate , If we 're putting up money then we should also have the responsibility for allocating them among a until the done and the done , so I 'm at all , or whether our council or something to be set up in the future should have equal control of that , that money . |
| 23 | We must for example be able to use concurrent users of the same accounting information in many different languages . |
| 24 | We must of course remember that many English liberals continued to support Napoleon — see Gillray 's cartoon of English liberals incensed by the naval victories of Nelson ; one of these , William Hazlitt , was so amazed at the change in Wordsworth and Coleridge that he accused them , later , of swinging over ‘ as on a pivot , to the unclean side ’ . |
| 25 | We must of course make full allowance for the disappearance of the most important historical sources of the third century B.C. Hieronymus of Cardia is likely to have given a precise account of the Celtic events of 280–275 B.C. Later Phylarchus continued the story . |
| 26 | According to the price inflation version of the Phillips curve , we must of necessity infer that the economy had been operating at a level of demand which was consistent with an unemployment rate U * ; in Figure 6.6 . |
| 27 | If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others . |
| 28 | But that is we we 're going to go We 'll on Wednesday officially we 'll be on the new green . |
| 29 | What I think we might with advantage look at now is not the grounds for saying ‘ I 'm happy ’ , but the occasion for saying it . |
| 30 | We might for example want to find out if it 's freezing outside without going outside to feel directly how cold it is . |