Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 2 | ‘ They ought to thank us for letting our Thing do their job for them , ’ said Gurder solemnly . |
| 3 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 4 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 5 | Our parents may want us to have ‘ what they never had ’ — may want us to fulfil their own frustrated dreams . |
| 6 | Our parents may want us to have ‘ what they never had ’ — may want us to fulfil their own frustrated dreams . |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Havisham may want us to spend more time together in future . |
| 8 | Excessive heat may make us feel ‘ stupid ’ and unable to function mentally . |
| 9 | The problems of the informal interview , then , are considerable , and they may make us feel that the formal type of interview is much less beset with difficulties and open to the criticism of lack of scientific method . |
| 10 | Fear of losing our grip may make us hang on to jobs for longer than we should , in an attempt to reassure ourselves . |
| 11 | Dame Edna Everage may make us laugh at prejudice , but are we smiling or laughing at ourselves ? |
| 12 | Guilt-feeling may make us angry . |
| 13 | It may make us unhappy , but it insists that the mechanical and the material need n't be in charge . |
| 14 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
| 15 | Whilst ‘ Kubla Khan ’ may delight us it does not delight Coleridge , who has seem the real thing . |
| 16 | If we 're able to use it the cold may win us a few days in which to withdraw to bed and grieve gently for ourselves ; if not at least we can weep openly at work , blowing our nose and wiping our eyes , and get a little consideration and sympathy from others for our sad lot . |
| 17 | The opinions of others may direct us how to think and react . |
| 18 | You must think us very ill-organized , inspector . ’ |
| 19 | If you must compare us with Paris , then look at the international visitors figures . |
| 20 | The holism of the mental should make us suspicious , I have argued , of the mental-sentence view . |
| 21 | But the wholly unpredicted speed-up of events elsewhere in Eastern Europe should make us wary of assuming that the Romanians must be so much further behind . |
| 22 | Every experience we have should make us better able to cope in the future . |
| 23 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 24 | But they should make us modest . |
| 25 | Our intelligence which should make us happy , has by perversity made us unhappy . |
| 26 | But the extent of the schemes should make us cautious about identifying radical structural change too readily even in the wake of the legislation so severely criticized in the 1980s . |
| 27 | This should make us wary of superficial descriptions of knowledge and faith . |
| 28 | This throws a more realistic light on the spectacular statistics and glowing reports of widespread conversions , and it should make us wary of the forced professions and the hot-house wonders of superficial evangelistic movements . |
| 29 | The economic and unemployment misery daily portrayed through the British media should make us all more aware that we must begin to look after our own . |
| 30 | But it should make us very suspicious . |