Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [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 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The existence of this gap may help us to explain the links between legal positivism , utilitarianism , and the influence of French sociological positivism . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 11 | Prejudice may lead us into aggressive attitudes towards some person or group . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is astonishing that the Opposition should ask us to legislate without consulting on this very important issue . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The episode should make us wary of placing too much emphasis on such notions as clerical dynasties . |
| 17 | Even the current fragmentation of historical practice should warn us that historians will want to tell many stories . |
| 18 | In other words , the proposed research should enable us to discover whether the dark figure of crime is even larger than self-report studies reveal it to be . |
| 19 | Such research should help us identify which aspects of unemployment are crucial . |
| 20 | A mathematical analogy might help us to see what is involved here : to affirm a real affirmation is positive , but to affirm something which is itself negative is to end up with a negative in the same way — no better than what we are criticizing . |
| 21 | What other boat could take us ? ’ the fat man asked . |
| 22 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 23 | Acceptance of our City Challenge bid would enable us to wrought that miracle far more quickly . ’ |
| 24 | A voluntary supply management programme would enable us to cut them back . |
| 25 | That apart , the figures from the 15 largest privatisations since 1981 and the two public sale-like floats — TSB and Abbey National — also tell a different story from the image which the proponents of the programme would like us to believe . |
| 26 | The figures from the 15 largest privatisations since 1981 and the two public sale-like floats — TSB and Abbey National — tell a different story from the one which the proponents of the programme would like us to believe . |
| 27 | DRUGS ARE not quite as ‘ scientific ’ as the pharmaceuticals industry would like us to believe . |
| 28 | All the policies that the hon. Gentleman and his party advocate would move us in exactly the opposite direction . |
| 29 | We need to beware of thinking a psychoanalyst 's couch would give us enough excuses either to blow away all our adult responsibilities , or to explain in detail every feature or peculiarity of our present thoughts or behaviour . |
| 30 | I think the bulge of the flywheel would prevent us making a straight plate to cover this aperture . |