Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
| 2 | When we destroy this ‘ genetic bank ’ we may also kill our hope for feeding our planet in the future . |
| 3 | I think we may well find your daughter now . ’ |
| 4 | I believe that we are evolving — we 've done our physical evolution , I suppose , though we may eventually lose our appendix or the little toe . |
| 5 | We may still find our attention distracted by thoughts of home , family or whatever . |
| 6 | When we observe this , we should either refresh his mind by saying something with becoming liveliness or something calculated to arouse great wonder and amazement , or even grief and lamentation . |
| 7 | In addition to the role of the military in the policy-making process , we should also consider its importance as an executor of policy . |
| 8 | Meanwhile we should perhaps consider what state we would be in , were we to agree that the sceptic 's argument is effective . |
| 9 | In ridding the game of these hangers-on we should perhaps take our lead from cricket , a game nobody watches . |
| 10 | The dialectical method of reasoning he borrowed from Engel ; and we should never under-estimate its importance in being a fundamental break with the tradition of Western philosophy . |
| 11 | 6.3 Bolinger was quite right to point out that what is in fact exactly the same principle may apply in the relationship between an adjective and its noun ; in consequence , we must slightly refine our view of qualification as outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 12 | We must also make it crystal clear how much shopkeepers , who gave us so much flak when we introduced the business rate and the community charge , will now be paying . |
| 13 | The current economic conditions are particularly challenging and it is clear that we must increasingly earn our living by ingenuity and innovation . |
| 14 | We must now examine his record . |
| 15 | The period of foreign aid is ending and we must now cut our coat according to our cloth . |
| 16 | We must now turn our attention to the spiritual dynamics which operate in relation to the communication of the gospel . |
| 17 | We must now turn our attention to this general conceptual background itself . |
| 18 | We must now turn our attention to the wider situation in which 5 Corps found itself on 10–12 May . |
| 19 | Our case is complete , but we must now catch our man . ’ |
| 20 | Jean Le Mee , professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York , believes that we must now broaden our vision to progress in AI . |
| 21 | We must only overcome our immaturity and , within a short time , the results will improve . |
| 22 | we 'll probably fill our time , I mean if just if you 're working that 'll change it wo n't it ? |
| 23 | Well we 'll probably have our dinner first then I 'll probably do it . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll also circulate her description , and if you have a good , recent photograph that would be very helpful . ’ |
| 25 | We 'll just give our library books in . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll just poke our nose out into the river and then turn back . |
| 27 | We 'll both see your Mum and Dad together and make all the arrangements . ’ |
| 28 | And soon we 're going to get to the point where we 'll be producing strings , each one with consistently the same sound-picture — and if it 's not , then we 'll instantly know what part of the process or what inconsistency in the materials is causing the problem . |
| 29 | Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd blames a 5% fall in profits before charges for closure of some telecommunications operations on losses at the UK telecommunications subsidiary , Reuter reports , but the group will still commit another £200m to the UK unit this year , group chairman Li Ka-Shing said : ‘ I 'm not happy with the results , but we 'll still continue our commitment to the UK operation and pump more money into it , ’ he said — ‘ I 'm not sure the worst is over yet in the UK , which ate up all our Hong Kong profits this year ; ’ he said Hutchison will have invested over £500m in the loss-making UK unit , including the £200m that is earmarked for this year , but he refused to say at what point he will say enough is enough — ‘ It 's too early to say ; you can never tell when business will pick up . ’ |
| 30 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |