Example sentences of "we [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd like to erm try and get you all to see what you can tell by simply observing the building , and I 'd like to concentrate if we may on the central part of the building , because there are a number of changes that have been made to that building erm which tell a story . |
| 2 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 3 | We may at our discretion and without prior notice terminate or suspend your right to use your Card . |
| 4 | When the results of these tests are finally known we may at last know for sure whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or not . |
| 5 | Our ignorance of the methods makes if difficult to establish accurate estimates of the effort involved in carrying out the various tasks ; we may at least gain some idea of the order of magnitude of the work . |
| 6 | Today , one hundred years after his death , we may at last be approaching a sufficient understanding to bring to fruition Darwin 's proposal . |
| 7 | We may at our discretion vary these rates in line with the general level of interest rates , and any changes will be announced in branches . |
| 8 | Armed with these and other detailed structural pictures , we may at last be able to get a handle on some of the many and complex eukaryotic transcriptional control mechanisms at the molecular level . |
| 9 | We may at this stage , however , rest the case on the changing structure of employment ( Figure 3.1 ) : this is basic to our study because , as we have said , Primary , Secondary and Tertiary sectors of the economy tend to have different locational patterns , and a shift from one sector to another may thus have fundamental effects on the geography of employment — and therefore of population . |
| 10 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) The contract may limit liability to certain heads of damage : if the goods prove defective our liability is limited to the refund of all payments made by the Buyer or if the goods prove defective our liability is limited to the cost of repairing or making good the defects in the goods , provided that , if the cost of repair exceeds the contract price , we may at our option replace the goods or refund all payments made by the Buyer and such replacement or refund shall be in full satisfaction of all our liability under this contract . |
| 12 | We may of course get different amounts of utility if our tastes differ , but we all consume the same quantity . |
| 13 | Erm we may of course go to Bowness next year if the circumstances change and we can manage it that will course cost a fair amount of money but that remains to be seen , we 'll have to wait and see how the club progresses during the year whether we think we can do it . |
| 14 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 15 | Even when we do not follow a conscious spiritual path in terms of a religious faith , we may in fact be realising our purpose in some other way . |
| 16 | We may in fact know more and not less about a fictional character than about most real people of our acquaintance . |
| 17 | Close links with Heidelberg , the major German printing press manufacturer , give us hope that we may in time become a test-bed for Direct Imaging driven from our Macintosh pre-press system . |
| 18 | Although we may in this way gain in explanatory capacity , there are several important disadvantages associated with a participant observation study . |
| 19 | Any suggestions er will be duly received , but er we 'll come back on that one if we may in a minute , |
| 20 | Thus in the absence of complications due to symmetry , we may in principle count the number of CO ligands in a complex simply by counting the CO stretching bands in the vibrational spectrum . |
| 21 | We may in fact anticipate some slippage in the timetable as a result of two factors . |
| 22 | We may in such circumstances act on the instructions of the Board of Directors , provided we are sure they are mandated to act . |
| 23 | ‘ We ought to be under no illusion that the success or otherwise of what is happening in Poland and Hungary will substantially rest upon the actions of the two governments , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 24 | I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole . |
| 25 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 26 | We are only two of us now and we ought to be closer . |
| 27 | It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud . |
| 28 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
| 29 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 30 | The former is an accurate insight to where we are , the latter into where we ought to be . |