Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Localities , locales and human interaction may help us to situate society and social change . |
| 2 | Hence identification of antigenic determinants of IgA response may lead us towards antibody responses likely to be important in parasite clearance . |
| 3 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
| 4 | ( In Italian Fascism it showed up only quite late , as Giorgio Bassani may remind us . ) |
| 5 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 6 | The contrast between these two cases should warn us against generalising propositions which make either fluidity and mobility of the working class , or tradition and community within particular branches , into uniquely favourable conditions for socialist organisation ( the first is perhaps Bologna 's temptation ; the second appears to be the temptation of the work done under the auspices of the ‘ History Workshop ’ ) . |
| 7 | Provided there 's access to the plane and the fuselage is not crushed a few minutes should tell us all we want to know . |
| 8 | Transactions of this kind must make us pause before we condemn all landlords as Gradgrinds , or make too large assumptions about the nature of medieval serfdom . |
| 9 | All these added values should concern us , as should the question , what motivates us ? |
| 10 | I think Mr Michael Shea should tell us . |
| 11 | The logic of Ormrod J. 's decision must cause us to say that the male in these examples is no longer able to perform the essential role of a male — that is , assert his biological maleness — and is not , therefore , a male for the purposes of marriage , and that therefore there is no marriage . |
| 12 | ‘ The gods help us that our sons should see us thus ! ‘ |
| 13 | Yes we ca I think these ducks must think we 've got some bread for them , but we have n't have we ? |
| 14 | However peculiarly Beethoven 's seemingly contradictory words may strike us now , the tempos are nevertheless his and are , again , anything but slow ! |
| 15 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 16 | The existence of this gap may help us to explain the links between legal positivism , utilitarianism , and the influence of French sociological positivism . |
| 17 | The humiliations may show us the strength of the opposition which the world , temporal and spiritual , sets up against him , but they promise too the kind of imaginative and moral strength which will raise him about it . |
| 18 | Particular backdrops were fashionable at different times ( and the furniture or background in an old photograph may tell us more about tastes and fashions in photographers ' studios than it does about furniture in homes ) . |
| 19 | ‘ However much analogy may lead us to conjecture the universal prevalence of law and orderly sequence , it has been acutely remarked that the phenomena which are most immediately important to the life and welfare of man are precisely those which he has never been , and probably never will be , able to reduce to a scientific calculation . |
| 20 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 21 | Prejudice may lead us into aggressive attitudes towards some person or group . |
| 22 | We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) . |
| 23 | A timely reminder of the potential bio-hazards facing members , this study should remind us all that we deal on a daily basis with chemicals and micro-organisms which can cause much harm and ultimately lead to ill-health . |
| 24 | It is astonishing that the Opposition should ask us to legislate without consulting on this very important issue . |
| 25 | Spokesman Julia Hobsbawm says : ‘ Readers of Hello ! and Bella should check us out . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The results of the experiment should give us a better understanding of the way that normal growth takes place in plants and will also help to provide information for the design of plant-based life-support systems , ’ Dr Briarty explained . |
| 27 | Choosing three images should give us " beginning " , " middle " and " end " , i.e. what is stable , how that stability is disrupted and how the disruption is resolved . |
| 28 | The episode should make us wary of placing too much emphasis on such notions as clerical dynasties . |
| 29 | … the work done should not simply start from the book , but should constantly return and refer to it , … much of the work , including writing , should involve small group work and … books should involve us in ‘ improvising upon representatives of reality ’ |
| 30 | All entries must reach us by 15th March 1992 . |