Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 2 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 3 | Next we decide which of these reflect the most pressing problems and which become our aims for intervention ( I ) and consider how we may record them ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | Arguably it provides a very strong constraint on managers to act efficiently , if we may assume they are concerned about their future career path and if they believe that the firm does not systematically assess their performance wrongly . |
| 5 | We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them . |
| 6 | ‘ Forget about the bullets , we may find them in the morning . ’ |
| 7 | Anselm met them as best he could as they arose , and we may trace them step by step , less to recall the stages in an archbishop 's promotion , than to understand the state of mind in which Anselm progressed from one stage to the next . |
| 8 | Even John Henry Newman wrote this about animals : ‘ We may use them , we may destroy them at our pleasure . |
| 9 | Even John Henry Newman wrote this about animals : ‘ We may use them , we may destroy them at our pleasure . |
| 10 | We need to bring them into the light and recognise them so that we may dispatch them . ’ |
| 11 | Often we may equate them with more formal partnerships which fall by the wayside after only a short existence ; except that in their breakdown the feelings of guilt , humiliation and bitterness may occur even more strongly than when an " honest " attempt is felt to have been made . |
| 12 | We may visualise them as wavelengths and orbits about a nucleus — with some similarity to a miniature solar system . |
| 13 | We may need them , but we should also spare a thought for our cats when using them , or sooner or later our pet animals will suffer . |
| 14 | I 've a feeling we may need them before this is over . ’ |
| 15 | We may accept them , to oblige : to save another 's face . |
| 16 | If we may further generalize on these projects , we may describe them as setting up models of teaching methods and materials , thus tending to extend and develop user education methods , rather than analysing and criticizing existing methodologies and materials . |
| 17 | We may criticise them , using our own high expectations , and find that they fall short . |
| 18 | Those of us who enjoy them need only a name for each condition , so that we may discuss them in expectation and in recollection . |
| 19 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 20 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 21 | In addition we should eat them raw , or as lightly cooked as possible , to conserve the high ratio of vitamins , minerals and plant protein . |
| 22 | They would want a lot ; there is no reason that we should give them everything they ask for . |
| 23 | There is no one else on the Tory Benches , so perhaps we should give them time to get someone in to act as the Minister 's runner . |
| 24 | I think we should give them two |
| 25 | I think we should beat them at H.Q , especially if Batts can get the ball in Midfield , and Deane perks up . |
| 26 | People will say we should beat them but we 've seen how difficult this trip has been so far . |
| 27 | so we should beat them . |
| 28 | I suppose we should ignore them … |
| 29 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 30 | It is important that we do not hand to our successors decisions made at the end of a dying Parliament ; we should leave them to take the decisions in future . |