Example sentences of "[vb mod] we [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither must we forget that most fish can adapt to a particular food source and actually produce more of a particular enzyme to cope with a new food . |
| 2 | So not only must we establish that we have mutual life goals , but we need reasonable assurance that each partner has adequate commitment to those goals to persevere . |
| 3 | Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ . |
| 4 | Why should we think that metabolism is controlled , but not the vortex ? |
| 5 | Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level . |
| 6 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 7 | Nor should we assume that the parties were static . |
| 8 | Should we insist that children spend all their time with a literature whose main non-white representatives are Othello , Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe and the savages in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness ? |
| 9 | If there is this source of contamination necessarily present in the procedure , why should we insist that the input to the procedure be completely sterile , i.e. devoid of any taint of falsehood ? |
| 10 | Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ? |
| 11 | If the mood is one of resigned acceptance , that the situation represents one 's life difficulties , that there is no help to be obtained in dealing with the matter , should we consider that such a person has a problem ? |
| 12 | Now should we say that B on seeing the pencil after seeing instruments which he did n't know had a feeling of familiarity ? |
| 13 | Should we say that this cry had meaning ? |
| 14 | The formulae ( ‘ it seemed good ’ , ‘ straight away ’ ) are aped from ‘ city ’ terminology ( and note the deme agora , something normally characteristic of a polis , cp. p. 66 ) — or should we say that the city aped the demes ? |
| 15 | Assimilation creates something of a problem for phoneme theory ; when , for example , in ‘ good ’ becomes in the context ‘ … girl ’ ( ) or in the context ‘ … boy ’ ( ) , should we say that one phoneme has been substituted for another ? |
| 16 | They were wrong , so why should we believe that they have got it right on this occasion ? |
| 17 | But how could we ensure that complexity and mystery were the only qualitative differences between the various skylines ? |
| 18 | What could we change that half into so that we could one sixth to it ? |
| 19 | Could we assume that he was put in the river within an hour of being killed ? " |
| 20 | Sorry , er ch could we raise that under |
| 21 | Could we qualify that that we do not want them to go down School Lane ? |
| 22 | And it is not easy to discover any more covert or sophisticated moral view of the characters and the events of the poem : it does not dwell in any suggestive way on the irremediable carnality of human desires , and only with a degree of distortion and uncalled for determination could we assert that the poem is significantly antifeminist or anticlerical . |
| 23 | Could we climb that fast , even allowing for the more modest grading of most of it ? |
| 24 | It is the two hundred and twenty five , but how could we calculate that from just looking at , if they just told us and you did n't use the protractor . |
| 25 | If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys . |
| 26 | Could we indicate that if they can go . |
| 27 | Could we say that we had handled that well ? |
| 28 | Could we Before we get today , could we say that these are the gnostics are n't |
| 29 | But how could we believe that health and education could be the main players in achieving these targets ? |
| 30 | May we expect that the cost of transporting freight from the mainland to Orkney and Shetland will be comparable with the cost of such transport to the Western Isles ? |