Example sentences of "we may [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we may do great things while they are in care , achieving personal growth and forming relationships , but this is vitiated as adolescents face , at the age of 18 , the constraints of joblessness , social isolation and poor accommodation . |
| 2 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |
| 3 | Although we may perceive these levels as separate , they are in fact interrelated — we can not in reality separate the parts that make up the whole . |
| 4 | We may view such processes as having effects upon local communities , and search for causal explanations of social behaviour in these broad processes . |
| 5 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 6 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 7 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 8 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 9 | We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress . |
| 10 | I think , from the way Hans , her agent you know , Hans Kramer , was speaking last night , we may effect some kind of compromise . |
| 11 | Yet throughout these eventful years the tradition of Catholic imitative polyphony flowed on undisturbed , reaching even greater technical equability in the work of Josquin 's presumed pupil Nicolas Gombert ( c. 1500–c. 1556 ) and Jacobus Clemens ‘ non Papa' ( c. 1510–c. 1557 ) , with whom we may associate other natives of French Flanders : Thomas Crecquillon ( d.c. 1557 ) ; Jean Richafort ( c. 1480–c. 1547 ) , an older pupil of Josquin 's ; two composers whose identities were confused even in their lifetime , Lupus Hellinck ( c. 1495–1541 ) and Johannes Lupus or Lupi ( Jean Leleu ) ( c. 1506–1539 ) , the confusion being worse confounded by two less distinguished contemporaries named Johannes Lupus ; Noel Bauldewyn ( d. 1530 ) , who was Richafort 's successor at Malines Cathedral and composer of the Missa Da Pacem long attributed to Josquin ; 3 and Pierre de Manchicourt ( c. 1510–1564 ) who towards the end of his life became master of Philip II 's capilla flamenca , in which both Gombert and Crecquillon had served under Philip 's father , the Emperor Charles V. |
| 12 | Elements other than in the uth , vth columns and rows are unaltered from those in A ; at the intersections of the uth , vth columns an rows the new elements are given by ( 3 ) ( with Buv = 0 ) , while the remaining elements Biu , Biv in the uth , vth columns and rows are unc We may make two deductions . |
| 13 | If we cling to an outmoded view of neighbouring , peering at it through deeply rose-tinted spectacles , we may make false assumptions about what is actually available to old people , or ought to be available . |
| 14 | Ah , well ! we may conjecture many things . |
| 15 | However , we may insert other expressions for in the above integral and derive Voigt ( and similarly Reuss ) sums for these orientations . |
| 16 | We are sometimes scared that , if we tell the other person what we think , we may hurt that person . |
| 17 | If we choose to use our resources in the most efficient place at the moment we may avoid those areas which are not so efficient but which will be more valuable in the future . |
| 18 | Otherwise we may draw misleading conclusions about the movements across changing occupations ( for example , whether clerical positions are counted as middle class affects our analysis ) . |
| 19 | And if the motive mixed ideology and good intentions , then we may draw both conclusions : that the first perverted decision making and the second , as always , was not good enough . |
| 20 | We may build active status at work through : |
| 21 | ‘ We may suffer some setbacks , but for the 18th successive year we shall be increasing prize money . |
| 22 | Although we may suffer several colds each winter we are not being re-infected with the same virus . |
| 23 | We may conceive several alternatives but we can only act on one of them . |
| 24 | Of course , we may forget old lessons and we certainly need to keep in practice to maintain our performance levels in certain types of skill ( especially psycho-motor skills — like playing a musical instrument or carrying out a laboratory procedure ) . |
| 25 | At the same time , it has permitted the formation of a more precise theory of relationships from which we may deduce evolutionary pathways . |
| 26 | Now at , at the moment we have to keep fifty percent of our investments in the narrow range and we may place fifty percent in the wider range . |
| 27 | When we join the group as a new member we may sense these norms and question their relevance but , if group membership is vital to our role acquisition , we will accept the irrelevant norm merely to establish our intention to conform and thereby hasten our acceptance by the group . |
| 28 | Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right . |
| 29 | We ask God for the help we need to discover what we have in common with our neighbours of other Faiths , so that , with peace among all believers , we may promote universal peace together . |
| 30 | Against these , we may set happier examples . |