Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although we certainly do not wish to get diverted into a consideration of the nominal patterns of English , we may mention that even in a case like : ( 6 ) Claudia is a bus-driver we have no doubt that the relation is still one of equation . |
| 32 | If such a model is correct , we may speculate that the movement of such female associated items may have been enhanced if the giving of women in marriage was at all common . |
| 33 | We may speculate that GPs may become less willing to maintain the very elderly on their lists when they have to provide care within a specified cash-limited budget . |
| 34 | There were obvious problems resulting from the overcrowding of working-class homes but we may speculate that the social-purity agitation over incest reflected middle-class anxieties and tensions concerning the sanctity of the family rather than the objective reality of working-class conditions . |
| 35 | When pressed on this , one member of the team assured us that schools were by no means excluded from consideration on these grounds , but we may speculate that members ' own positions regarding comprehensive reorganisation will have played some part . |
| 36 | Through this type of analysis we may discover that there is a relationship between certain socioeconomic inputs and political outputs , but we would not know how or why this relationship exists . |
| 37 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 38 | In a month of little daylight and with our minds on Christmas coming up , we may forget that many of our wild animals are still very active . |
| 39 | Whether the original low-tech replicators were mineral crystals or organic direct forerunners of DNA itself , we may guess that the ‘ power ’ they exercised was direct and elementary , like stickiness . |
| 40 | In short , we may guess that the original recension of Lex Salica , a work which included traditional legal custom as well as royal edicts , was compiled for Clovis , perhaps by Frankish lawmen , but certainly with the help of Roman lawyers . |
| 41 | We may guess that a pipe flow with an artificially induced parabolic profile at the entry could remain laminar to even higher Reynolds numbers than flows with a normal entry length . |
| 42 | " We may regret that the Commissioners did not pursue a more spirited foreign policy and visit the United States of America , where , beyond a doubt , they would have seen results which would have qualified their condemnation of the combined system . |
| 43 | Among many other activities of other fellows we may record that Professor Anna Davies gave the Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures at Harvard University , that Barbara Harvey has become a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts , and Hilary Ockendon a deputy director on OCIAM , the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . |
| 44 | Now , we may surmise that any individual fish , if it could get away with it , would ‘ prefer ’ to play the male role all the time , because the male role is cheaper . |
| 45 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 46 | Only John took the ‘ poorter 's oath ’ necessary for those who wanted to establish a business , and from this we may surmise that James Champneys lived with John and Jane and that the business was solely in John 's name . |
| 47 | Plainly , in the minds of the Pioneers they were ; yet Cole uses language from which we may infer that they were not . |
| 48 | We may infer that this pattern is a residue of some earlier English vowel pattern that has not been well identified or described by historical linguists . |
| 49 | We may infer that Nietzsche , although now somewhat distanced from the detail of Schopenhauer 's doctrines , had shortened the distance under the stimulus of Wagner 's interest in the philosophy of music . |
| 50 | We may assume that during conditioning associations will be formed between contextual cues and the individual events ( the CS and the US ) that occur in their presence . |
| 51 | All were agreed that multiple homage was an aberration , displeasing to God ; but we may assume that it was rare for a man to refuse a good gift or a bargain on this account . |
| 52 | When we would expect a feeling to be expressed to some extent by both partners but instead one person is quite overcome with emotion while the other is apparently untouched , we may assume that one carries and expresses the feeling for both . |
| 53 | And since Pooh knows what bees look like , we may assume that this observation is a good one : the belief the bees give him ( namely , that they are bees ) will be true . |
| 54 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 55 | We may assume that he is not spying on players and so must be on the lookout for managerial talent . |
| 56 | In the example of ICI the ratio was 9.8 and so we may assume that investors were willing to pay 9.8p for 1p of earnings . |
| 57 | we may assume that households will move so as , in effect , to subscribe to the clubs ( local governments ) whose policies most closely match their own preferences . |
| 58 | We may assume that very often they exploited ignorance and helplessness , though the extremes of contract labour and debt serfdom were probably un-common in this period , except among the Indians and Chinese shipped abroad for plantation work . |
| 59 | We may anticipate that there will be a stable length right at the start of the pipe ( the Reynolds number based on boundary layer thickness being small here ) , followed by the unstable region , this being followed in turn by another stable region as the profile approaches Poiseuille flow . |
| 60 | Even though we may think that in Britain we have had more than our share of industrial decay and change , the catalogue of proud names that were in the vanguard of German or American industrial might at the turn of the last century is very different from the list of those who are in front today . |