Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you may be aware , elements of the corporate financial services work we may do for you are regulated under the Financial Services Act ( ‘ FSA ’ ) by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( ‘ ICAEW ’ ) as investment business ( ‘ regulated work ’ ) . |
| 2 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 3 | We may complain about it many times , but think of its wonderful facility of allowing us to phone that relative in the United States , or a friend a few miles away , or the butcher , or our business , and so on . |
| 4 | Much as we may complain about standards of some general practice in London — and rightly so — there is at least some system to seek to achieve geographic coverage by primary care doctors . |
| 5 | Be with them in peace so that we may remain with our family and children in peace . |
| 6 | We may conclude with a less unusual example , from a South London family . |
| 7 | Finally , we may return to the fundamental difference between the mediation and differentiation theories of acquired distinctiveness — for the former the associations formed during distinctiveness training play a critical role , whereas for the latter these associations are essentially irrelevant . |
| 8 | If , as Paul suggests , attention to the context is a way of resolving problems , we may return to the text of Ulpian . |
| 9 | We may return to Burford . ’ |
| 10 | Well we may return to that in a moment |
| 11 | For example , as parents we may react with undue stress to a teenager who flouts our authority , because we are afraid of losing our self-esteem which is dependent on being able to control our family . |
| 12 | It follows that whatever conclusions we may reach about the content of the school curriculum , and however varied and flexible the curriculum itself and the examination of it may be , the curriculum should be essentially designed for comprehensive schools . |
| 13 | Overall comprehension of this order requires either a complete assimilation of all relevant information on the lines described by Descartes , or an instant of penetrating insight that we may classify as a Gift from God . |
| 14 | All these levels may be seen as controlled by the relationship of the people involved in the discourse , which we may regard as the highest level . |
| 15 | We may refer to the functions of manager , sales representative , typist , or industrial scientist , or for that matter fitter , as ‘ occupations ’ . |
| 16 | The cost is exorbitant and the Government should take this opportunity to tell that to local authorities , especially in relation to students , although there are other categories to which we may refer in other clauses and amendments . |
| 17 | We may observe in the future a continued trend in the use of sub-contractors , consultants , and other external agencies , thus reducing the core size of currently large firms . |
| 18 | We may observe in passing that while it seems obvious enough in the abstract that we should distinguish between what is good in itself and what is good as a means , more is at stake here than conceptual clarity . |
| 19 | We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth , but we never quarrel about God . |
| 20 | When these anxieties are ministered to by the products of the instant government under which we now with remarkable acquiescence subsist and are abetted by draftsmanship of the esoteric kind sometimes adopted by our professional brothers south of the border , we may expect to be confronted by problems of dimensions quite disparate to the simple issues which are essentially involved . |
| 21 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 22 | There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite . |
| 23 | At present we 're limited by the powers available under the Trustee Investment Acts nineteen sixty-one , this sets out the amounts which we may invest in narrow and wide ranges of investment . |
| 24 | Whatever we may make of this , it is interesting to observe that Professor Hartman of New York has established a link between those who suffer from this nocturnal disposition and a high level of creativity . |
| 25 | Whatever we may make of its influences , Leonard is clear that he ‘ never recovered ’ from its dénouements ; its ‘ illumination of human behaviour ’ ; its horror ( which he termed ‘ metaphorical ’ ) . |
| 26 | Whatever we may make of Leonard 's Judaism , he is a man seized by its traditions , its scriptures and their imagery . |
| 27 | What we may recognize as a scientific principle was enunciated via the theological concept of divine immutability . |
| 28 | Like other new-minted pidgin languages , it gives insights into the universal linguistic blueprint we may inherit from our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago , at the beginning of modern times . |
| 29 | In this sense we may speak of a ‘ conflict or variance ’ between the rules of Law and the rules of Equity , in the language of section 25 ( sub-section 11 ) of the judicature Act 1873 ( now replaced by section 49 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ) . |
| 30 | In exactly the same sense as we may speak of cuckoo genes having ( phenotypic ) effects on the colour and shape of cuckoo gapes , so we may speak of cuckoo genes having ( extended phenotypic ) effects on host behaviour . |