Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may even analyse such behaviour in semi-anthropomorphic terms . |
| 2 | We may here respond that Quine is overreacting . |
| 3 | We may also choose another set of axes ( 1 " , 2 " , 3 " ) different from the first and in these axes the vector X has different components . |
| 4 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 5 | I think w we may well see some kind of shake out . |
| 6 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 7 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 8 | We may therefore say that sir conventionally implicates that the addressee is male and socially higher in rank than the speaker ( see Chapter 3 ) |
| 9 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 10 | I 'm hoping to get ashore after lunch for a while , but we may still get that swim . |
| 11 | The present value of the firm is now dependent on the firm 's results of its past investment policies ( Y t ) and the prospects of its current investment decisions ( I t ) We may now generalize this result so that the present value of the firm is independent of any future dividend decisions . |
| 12 | But we ought perhaps to give more attention to another fact . |
| 13 | Probably more than half of our VDU operator chairs will meet the standard , but we should urgently check all workstation environments using the standard EC/HSE assessment forms . |
| 14 | We should also add some part of the cost of the increased numbers of general and senior managers , which rose from 510 in 1986 to 13200 in 1991 , Between 1987 and 1991 the salary bill for general managers rose from £25.7m to £251.5m . |
| 15 | Be that as it may , we should perhaps pay more attention to the context rather than the content of the distinction , and the relationship between the two environments or worlds : the department and the firm , the laboratory and the field , the lecture-room and the ward . |
| 16 | ‘ My lord , we should perhaps postpone this discussion until after supper . |
| 17 | This means that we should only add another layer of management if there was a unique extra job which would increase the value of the whole . |
| 18 | If you think that we should now give another proof of the same length to show that the possibility that a\c leads to the conclusion that b is a unit , you have cheated yourself in that you have accepted the statement " WLOG we can suppose a\b " above as a valid one when you do n't even understand what it says ! |
| 19 | Belief in progress was not confined to supporters of scientism , but the two went very easily together ; and we should now review this progress . |
| 20 | At the individual level we must also pay more attention to the professional ethics of those working in the media , including church-based workers . |
| 21 | We must also give some consideration to composite commodities . |
| 22 | We must also attribute some significance to the fact that the wife takes the lead in talking smut and negotiating with the monk . |
| 23 | We must either have such confidence in social work 's professional values that we wait for everything to sort itself out , or social workers must grasp their own destiny . |
| 24 | That is surely wrong , and we must never adopt any theory which severs the Father 's will from the work of the Son . |
| 25 | We must naturally avoid any compression that causes bias . |
| 26 | However that may be , we must now note that value statements in general , and ethical statements in particular , are distinguished by the attitudinist into two types . |
| 27 | We must therefore resist any temptation to read a book on doubt like a medical dictionary , or before long we may convince ourselves that we are suffering from every variety of doubt . |
| 28 | We 'll probably drive each other crazy . ’ |
| 29 | Then we 'll probably put this case back till later in the day . |
| 30 | As I said I 'll be having quite a lot to say about in the lectures , so we 'll just regard this class as a kind of prelude to that . |