Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For we may seem to be many here , but we are few . |
| 2 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 3 | In the meantime , we should expect to be surprised very often . |
| 4 | That aside , we should try to be happy with the body we have . |
| 5 | We should try to be happy in everything we do . |
| 6 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
| 7 | We should like to be constructive and we shall consider with our allies how best we can respond . |
| 8 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |
| 9 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 10 | For we should have to be able to redescribe both the actions we currently regard as rational , and those we think of as requiring a reactive response , so as to overcome the contrast between them . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll have to be mean ’ |
| 12 | you know , I have got to get , I mean we 've got to be ready at four ai n't we , which means we 'll have to be ready before we get there , |
| 13 | We 'll have to be quick . |
| 14 | We 'll have to be quick , though … |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll have to be careful , ’ she said . |
| 16 | He needs some training , but he 's very spirited , so we 'll have to be careful ’ ( Shevchenku : 1985 , p. 106 ) — a revealing indication of a patronising attitude that the Russian was to have cause to regret . |
| 17 | Oh , we 'll have to be careful , then , wo n't we ! |
| 18 | Carrie said , ‘ We 'll try to be good , Miss Evans . ’ |
| 19 | 'Course , we might live to be ninety . |
| 20 | But once we add this functional criterion we create a different problem : sometimes non-governmental bodies perform functions which we might consider to be governmental ( or ‘ public ’ ) in nature ( or , in other words , most appropriately conducted by government ) . |
| 21 | They need clothes for the prisoners as well as paper , pens , paint , in fact anything that we might find to be surplus in this country they could use , ’ he said . |
| 22 | We might wish to be tougher on large firms if the government is pursuing a policy of protection with high import tariffs . |
| 23 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 24 | " We get on very well with our neighbours , " Michael explained , " and we decided that we 'd like to be able to look into each other 's gardens . |
| 25 | We 'd done it — but now we 'd have to be friendly with the little swine ! |
| 26 | Regardless of advertising , competition or gift sponsorship , even personal friendships , we shall continue to be firm but fair in our reviewing . |
| 27 | ‘ We shall have to be blunt with ourselves and each other . |
| 28 | Since we shall have to be content with inexact knowledge we will not insist that our electron is to be found at a definite point but simply require that it is localised within an interval of space of length Ax . |
| 29 | We shall have to be careful over this point in Section 3.8 . |
| 30 | ‘ We shall have to be careful there , ’ he said , pointing . |