Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 2 | In the liberated world of radical chic , we may be intended to think , favours could be done for the right person . |
| 3 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 4 | We may be a grandmother , but we can still walk across the tea-room with a girlish flick of the bottom . |
| 5 | To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ? |
| 6 | So , in 1923 , he printed Yeats 's ‘ Biographical Fragment ’ giving the poet 's dreams with learned notes on tree worship , dying gods , and falling stars ( which we may be tempted to relate to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ ) . |
| 7 | The fact is we remain an island power and can not ignore the sea however close we may be to the Continent . |
| 8 | Our dependence on tools … . means that a large part of the mental capacity of a human culture exists outside the individual , whereas in non-manipulative dolphins it is still embodied in brain and behaviour … . as social beings … . we may be inferior to many cetaceans . ’ |
| 9 | We may be assured that , on the Judgement Day , ‘ no one shall be made to answer for what he knows nothing of ’ . |
| 10 | Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction . |
| 11 | It is accepting the lifestyle of Christ so that we may be usable for God 's glory . |
| 12 | We may be very liberated and all that but — ‘ Oh — I must ask my husband ’ ’ She put on a high-pitched imbecile voice like a detergent or wash-up liquid ad . |
| 13 | Unfazed by the fact that we may be off making a cuppa when his big moment hits the screens , Des has set his sights on playing James Bond in Goldblender , perhaps ? |
| 14 | We can never know , any of us , to what level we may be reduced . |
| 15 | ‘ Actually , ’ Roirbak said , having just thought of it , ‘ we may be able to use the natro group Star Eye to help your friend leave the city . |
| 16 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 17 | Or we may be determined to catch a horse that does n't want to be caught ; and if we feel it strongly enough , the horse seems to feel our determination too , and suddenly stops running away from us and agrees to being haltered . |
| 18 | It is more likely that such hoards will be found today simply because of their size , so we may be dealing with a higher rate of recovery for these hoards than is normal for hoards of other periods . |
| 19 | And here I must agree that I am beginning to fear that we may be on the edge of an age of the worst kind of mass production . |
| 20 | One example , suggesting that we may be able mentally to rotate objects , was mentioned at the end of the last chapter , and a second , in this one , demonstrated that we do in fact recognize sets of similar markings ( note that a psychological demonstration that we can do something , and an account of a calculation which would enable us to do so , are quite different things ) . |
| 21 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
| 22 | The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another . |
| 23 | We may be appalled by what we find , but there is also consolation in discovering even trivial aspects of the lives of parents and ancestors whose histories we identify with our own . |
| 24 | ‘ If we can find out how the insects switch this gene on and off then we may be able to prevent resistance by switching it off permanently , ’ said Dr Hemingway , at a Science and Engineering Research Conference in King 's College , London . |
| 25 | We often pray in Assembly that we may be gentle and kind with other people . |
| 26 | Let us pray today that we may be gentle with ourselves , guarding ourselves from relationships that might exploit us or be hurtful . |
| 27 | If we can recognise such features and foster them , we may be able to make a wiser choice in obtaining analytical data . |
| 28 | Secondly , if this is not possible , we may have to rely on whatever practical measures we may be able to adopt . |
| 29 | Indeed , a single success if it is too costly in terms of time , commitment , motivation or any other resource , may be at the expense of future changes — and we may be seeing some evidence of this at the moment in terms of the reactive stance of large parts of the service . |
| 30 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |