Example sentences of "we [modal v] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we drop a tin can probably nothing will happen ; at the worst we may make a small dent . |
| 2 | At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations . |
| 3 | We may make a trip to Glen Nevis next month . |
| 4 | Perhaps there is a feeling that once more we should make a point of giving thanks for our plentiful water supply . |
| 5 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 6 | We should make a strenuous and united attempt to incorporate in the management of our own institutions some of the features which have given the American schools the high character they enjoy . |
| 7 | I think we should make a serious effort to get some progress on this thing . ’ |
| 8 | " So we should make a start now . |
| 9 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |
| 10 | I think we should make a phone call to the constituency office of this man and ask them what they think of their er representative . |
| 11 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 12 | I do n't want him to lose all sense of proportion ; we must make a five . |
| 13 | In another analogy , our mind can be thought of as a huge tapestry in which the many episodes of life were originally isolated and there was no relationship between the parts ; but at last we must make a unified scene of our whole life . |
| 14 | In the same way , we must make a plan of our spiritual garden and have in it many different gardens . |
| 15 | We must make a joint appeal , unifying the interests of those whose support we seek . |
| 16 | Where there are no established rules to guide decision we must make a direct judgement as to what will have the best consequences , concentrating on the more immediate and those we are personally most motivated to promote , as the remote future is highly unpredictable and we are unlikely to do much to promote what is not personally inviting . |
| 17 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 18 | Tandri Dewa decided that , ready or not , we must make a move , and the guests and grateful ladies were put ashore . |
| 19 | ‘ But we must make a plan . |
| 20 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 21 | We must make a choice … |
| 22 | We must make a list but |
| 23 | " We must make a determined effort to win the rank and file of the ILP. " he wrote , " at the same time to avoid creating the impression that there are no fundamental differences between our Party and the ILP " . |
| 24 | We must make a cake |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll make a rough division into fiction and nonfiction for a start , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Bit of a squeeze , but if I can get through , you can follow , and we 'll make a dash . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And if they bring the chainsaw we 'll make a ring round it , ’ I said . |
| 28 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 29 | We 'll make a bargain . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'll make a proper job of this ! ’ she declared , and putting her fist into the crown , she forced it up as high as she could push it , and wore the resulting sombrero for the rest of the term . |