Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do n't succeed in this then we may require other people to act as our parents , or we may regard others as a threat to this self-sufficiency and therefore avoid intimacy . |
| 2 | we may expect continuations to have to do with plumbing , in which the plumber is offering advice to Mary , and so they are playing different roles . |
| 3 | Suppose we wish to put a straight line unc through the following set of experimental points : unc Suppose further that , in view of the experimental method , we may expect errors in f to be proportional to t . |
| 4 | Given that it seems clear that we may expect students who are well qualified in traditional terms to achieve relatively high levels of academic achievement , an important measure of success may be the extent to which institutions are able to take students who are not well qualified traditionally and achieve relatively high success rates with these students . |
| 5 | Without even knowing it , we may make assumptions about them based on the fact that they 're called Charles rather than Kevin . |
| 6 | On the mental level we may experience stresses from business problems and financial worries , the pressure of examinations and so on . |
| 7 | Among these we may cite debates over population ageing , the funding of pensions and other social services , and differential experiences by cohort , class , and gender . |
| 8 | We may construct defences for our sensibility by being deliberately offensive , diminishing others and not listening to them . |
| 9 | Who does the checking out on the central people who we may place contracts with ? |
| 10 | Why we may go walks together , and not go to his house where there is all his family I simply can not imagine . |
| 11 | Where is the mechanism whereby we may hold Ministers accountable ? |
| 12 | We may recover costs . |
| 13 | We may prefer arrangements based on institutions like the church and the shop but gangs and parties are also forms of social institution , not perhaps quite so easy to break down and displace as ‘ disorganization , would imply . |
| 14 | We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small . |
| 15 | By concentrating on the way conversational contributions overlap , however , we may neglect aspects of conversational discourse associated with different speakers having different personal ‘ topics ’ . |
| 16 | I wanted a crew of twenty men — as we may meet pirates or enemy ships — but I had the greatest difficulty finding six . |
| 17 | Among these we may notice easements , such as rights of way , rights of light , rights to take water or to discharge water over the land of another . |
| 18 | We may reject advertisements on grounds of taste , and we are always willing to consider for publication letters critical of advertising . |
| 19 | We may find things that are best kept locked away . " |
| 20 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 21 | One of the problems that will be encountered is that we may find words which are obviously complex but which , when we divide them into stem + affix , turn out to have a stem that it is difficult to imagine is an English word . |
| 22 | ‘ We may share rooms , but do n't forget you and Charlie originate from the same stable . |
| 23 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |
| 24 | The program considers every possible move which the laws of the game allow it to make , and arrives at various positions which we may call HisPos . |
| 25 | In such a universe , which is in thermal equilibrium as a whole and therefore dead , relatively small regions of the size of our galaxy will be found here and there ; regions ( which we may call worlds ) which deviate significantly from thermal equilibrium for short stretches of those ‘ aeons ' ’ of time . |
| 26 | ( 59 ) Two and two is four ( 60 ) Iguanas eat ants Let us , following Lyons ( 1977a : 682 ) , distinguish the semantic or theoretical category of tense , which we may call metalinguistic tense or M-tense for short , from the verbal inflections that a traditional grammar of a particular language may call that language 's tenses , which we may call L-tenses . |
| 27 | Then for long distance use we may require garages where you can simply exchange a battery pack for a fully charged one which you slide into the car . |
| 28 | We may have problems in the Labour Party but we ai n't that barmy . ’ |
| 29 | We may have members who been unemployed longer than eighteen months . |
| 30 | For example , ‘ the weather forecast is n't good , it 's going to rain' could be repeated as ‘ I 've brought my umbrella with me because we may have showers . ’ |