Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all . |
| 2 | ‘ We may do the odd Christmas special , but as far as series go , this is it , ’ says Harry , who does n't believe in letting new ideas develop into a formula . |
| 3 | But one thing we share , wherever we may be , whatever we may do : we are all , men , women and children , patriots of this great land … ’ |
| 4 | The large government service organisation consulted accepted that although it had not needed to recruit a team yet , ‘ we may do ’ . |
| 5 | For example , we may do great things while they are in care , achieving personal growth and forming relationships , but this is vitiated as adolescents face , at the age of 18 , the constraints of joblessness , social isolation and poor accommodation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Other societies have adopted , or are adopting , different behaviour and values ; we may do the same . |
| 8 | It would mean that British Gas would put a mileage rate on the transportation of gas so that regions such as Wales will suffer from higher gas prices , which will offset anything that we may do to achieve efficiency . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 10 | Write unc Then unc Premultiply by unc then since unc unc Thus unc is a new approximation to R , and we may repeat the cycle as required to obtain R , subject to convergence of the method . |
| 11 | Thus , we may repeat that if the authorities decline to increase the supply of base money , then banks are constrained in the amount of lending they can undertake . |
| 12 | The danger , however , is that by creating a western European defence force we may repeat the errors of old . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Be with them in peace so that we may remain with our family and children in peace . |
| 16 | Er much reference has already been made to this er golden corridor between Leeds a and York and I I really fail to see th that it is going to pose the the threat that some people think it will and and the analysis that we 've carried carried out has has thrown up two two figures , one in the region of twenty er a need of twenty to twenty five hectares in what describe as a northern centre based on on Tadcaster and I think we acknowledge that er we may struggle to achieve those twenty to twenty five hectares in and around Tadcaster , partly because of greenbelt constraint and and partly because of other constraints . |
| 17 | If MacCabe 's views on the value of a good row are right , then 1992 may offer some stranger cultural exchanges than expected : we may end up putting our mouths where their money is . |
| 18 | As a result , the blood is deprived of much of the oxygen it needs to feed the body tissues , so we may end up feeling listless or suffer vagueness of thought . |
| 19 | And , in the end , unless we challenge our assumptions , we may end up with little more than a large collection of inwardlooking occupational ethnographies between which the connections still remained to be demonstrated . |
| 20 | Never mind , ’ said Breeze valiantly , ‘ perhaps if we 're awfully careful and cheese-paring for the next forty years or so , we may end our days in some sweet little cottage with roses round the door … ’ |
| 21 | To illustrate how the inequalities which underlie such possession afflictions are always and necessarily relative ( rather than absolute ) , we may end this short list of examples by referring to the Santeria cult currently popular amongst Cuban refugees in mainland America . |
| 22 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |
| 23 | Unless some of those cripples get well we may end up in midtable anonymity by May . |
| 24 | In passing from one parish to another , in simply crossing a nameless brook or road , we may step back into fields that were created , not by the commissioners of Georgian times , but by the Tudor squire or perhaps even by his monastic predecessors in the fifteenth century . |
| 25 | Although we may perceive these levels as separate , they are in fact interrelated — we can not in reality separate the parts that make up the whole . |
| 26 | After all if we say , ‘ I did n't appreciate that remark , ’ that tells the world something about us , and we may perceive that it is unwise to let people know that the remark disturbs us at all so we do not share our feelings . |
| 27 | As our awareness of this quality of light increases , we may perceive it as centring on another figure — an inner or outer ‘ Lady of Light ’ — or as an identifiable principle to which we can begin to relate . |
| 28 | We may perceive here the strange workings of the historical process according to Rousseau . |
| 29 | Then unc and we may evaluate unc of which the relevant submatrix is ( omitting all other rows and columns ) unc which yields unc We now choose{ gth } 1 such that Buv vanishes ; i.e. unc This fixed{ gth } 1 . |
| 30 | We may conclude with a less unusual example , from a South London family . |