Example sentences of "we may [adv] [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We may soon witness the recurrence of all those awful health problems which made Diana so terribly ill , ’ says Penny . |
| 2 | Campbell concluded that we may not see the effect of economic recovery for at least a year — perhaps not until 1993 . |
| 3 | He was quite prepared to argue the case that savage practices might be integral to a culture : ‘ We may not like the notion of cannibalism or head-hunting , but that it formed part of a distinct and tenable form of culture in Melanesia is indisputable . ’ |
| 4 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 5 | ‘ You have only brought one teacup with you , McAllister , so we may not share the tea as we shared the coffee earlier today . ’ |
| 6 | We may not understand the occult ( hidden ) powers that lie behind these activities but be warned — they are REAL and they are HARMFUL . |
| 7 | We may not have the courage to scream for attention but we can ensure , by being ill , that we get it . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , given that it will not do to define law as a means to institutionalise dispute-resolution and so inhibit unregulated conflict , we may surely expect the control of force to be a major objective of law . |
| 9 | We may surely placate the shade of Max Beerbohm sufficiently to acknowledge that the danger we run in approaching poetry this way is indeed the danger of one sort of professionalism — specialized and therefore blinkered , inflexible , and humourless . |
| 10 | It is of course important that growth in size be linked to growth in maturity , otherwise we may simply see the fulfilment of Jesus ' warning about the seed sown on the rock , which shoots up fast but withers because its roots are not deep enough . |
| 11 | Of course it may , and indeed has , been argued-that the middle-class model is the model for the future [ = = ] but for the present we may simply note the variety of modes of family living that continue to exist and flourish . |
| 12 | We may also feel the need to use the toilet during a severe panic attack and we may find that our breathing pattern changes markedly . |
| 13 | We usually have some warning when one of these changes is about to happen and we may also have the worry about this change balanced by the excitement that a change in circumstances often brings . |
| 14 | We may also derive the stress equilibrium equations in a simple manner . |
| 15 | We may also consider the value to A and to B of a bet , say for a simple example a 50 per cent chance of £0 and a 50 per cent chance of £1000 . |
| 16 | Diane , I believe that if I place this disc onto the rotating turntable of a hi-fi system — not forgetting to place the stylus onto the groove , of course — then we may just find the break we 're looking for … |
| 17 | Diane , I believe that if I place this disc onto the rotating turntable of a hi-fi system — not forgetting to place the stylus onto the groove , of course — then we may just find the break we 're looking for … |
| 18 | If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story . |
| 19 | We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company . |
| 20 | Here we may formally write the ground-state as , in which case the spin and orbitally allowed transition involves transferring an electron from one ligand to the metal , giving as the upper state . |
| 21 | From GHS data we may therefore calculate the prevalence of self-reported acute health episodes and the duration of these episodes . |
| 22 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 23 | We may now refine the grounding formula as it applies to particular choices : |
| 24 | Having outlined the basic techniques for evaluating securities , we may now remove the assumption of certainty . |
| 25 | With the aid of eqns ( 2.67 ) and ( 2.71 ) we may now obtain the capacitance per unit area : |
| 26 | We may now consider the age group which overlaps the last , that of middle age . |
| 27 | We may now consider the process by which fertilisation of the ovum and development of the resulting life come about . |
| 28 | We may now assess the significance of his role by examining the themes of continuity and change in relation to his twin principles of Parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if we confine our view of drama to that of performance art we may so love the mask we overlook the face . |
| 30 | And it is by bringing this institutional dimension into focus that we may fully appreciate the influence of Laski , who was Professor of Political Science at LSE from 1926 to 1950 . |