Example sentences of "we [modal v] also [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may also detect a crisis of national consciousness in the old nations , and for similar reasons . |
| 2 | We may also choose another set of axes ( 1 " , 2 " , 3 " ) different from the first and in these axes the vector X has different components . |
| 3 | We may also feel the need to use the toilet during a severe panic attack and we may find that our breathing pattern changes markedly . |
| 4 | We may also admire people who have skills and strengths which complement our weaknesses . |
| 5 | We may also collect factual information on the ability and attitude of individual pupils and on their background in the subject concerned ; this last is of importance because the level of demand on pupils can only be judged in the knowledge of how far the material concerned is new to them and of their record of success or failure with it in the past . |
| 6 | We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) . |
| 7 | Whilst it is our preference to generate fees for the provision of professional advice on a transaction we may also generate fees for a brokerage transaction . |
| 8 | ‘ Freedom ’ , said Oliver Wendell Holmes , ‘ is freedom for the thought we hate ’ , since if we deny the rights of the odious , we may also threaten the rights of the unpopular , which in time may become the wisdom of posterity . |
| 9 | We may also instruct a solicitor or debt collection agent . |
| 10 | We may also refer to a writer like Meiklejohn ( 1909 ) ; his book is an excellent work of its kind , and despite the oft-repeated claims of more recent linguists that previous investigators had seriously neglected syntax , that subject receives no fewer than seventy pages in his treatment ( even when the allocation of words to word-classes is excluded ) . |
| 11 | We may also monitor the electrical activity of the muscles using an electromyograph ( EMG ) and would find reduced activity as the muscles relax . |
| 12 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
| 13 | In the light of these new data , we can assume this to be correct ; we may also assume that the extant Hotteterre flutes were made in Martin 's workshop . |
| 14 | When we destroy this ‘ genetic bank ’ we may also kill our hope for feeding our planet in the future . |
| 15 | In addition to the need for identifying appropriate bench-marks and a suitable framework of analysis , we may also ask about the rationale for engaging in work within the field of comparative industrial relations . |
| 16 | We may also ask the French police for help in tracing Madame V. But it 's a tall order . |
| 17 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 18 | We usually have some warning when one of these changes is about to happen and we may also have the worry about this change balanced by the excitement that a change in circumstances often brings . |
| 19 | We may also have a heightened sense of smell before periods , exaggerating any food preferences . |
| 20 | We may also have been exposed to the virus in the past through blood transfusion or donor inseminations . |
| 21 | We may also have further instructions to manipulate the index register or registers . |
| 22 | A further issue which we may also wish to consider is the one of ‘ value added ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ We may also demolish the non-active plant , such as the turbine hall and associated plant , ’ said Tom Mitchell . |
| 24 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 25 | We may also see a relationship between a willingness to accept the authoritative knowledge of a subject and a willingness to defer to authority in general . |
| 26 | We may also derive the stress equilibrium equations in a simple manner . |
| 27 | We may also consider the value to A and to B of a bet , say for a simple example a 50 per cent chance of £0 and a 50 per cent chance of £1000 . |
| 28 | We may also consider taking disciplinary action . |
| 29 | If your set-up is one of the runners-up we may also feature it on the pages of PFK . |
| 30 | We are poor guardians if we do not ensure its unalterable right to childhood , to mystery , to dreams , to tenderness and to love ; if we do not realise that by ceasing to provide authority we may also cease to care ; if we do not conscientiously maintain the spiritual foundations without which the young can not build anew ; if we do not teach that there is a third way , neither reactionary nor libertarian , which still waits to be explored . |