Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may thus envisage a gradient of what we shall term establishment of senses . |
| 2 | We may soon see a nursery ABC frieze , which goes : A is for Aids , B is for Bondage , C is for Condom , D is for Deviancy , E is for Equality , F is for Feminism , G is for Gender Stereotyping , H is for Haringey , I is for Income Support , J is for Joyriding , K is for karma , L is for Liberalism , M is for Ms. , N is for New Age , O is for Outing , P is for Positive Discrimination , Q is for Questioning Authority , R is for Radical , S is for Single Parent , T is for Therapy , U is for Underprivileged , V is for Virtual Reality , W is for Wimmin , X is for Malcolm , Y is for Yoof and Z is for Zen . |
| 3 | If events contradict the way we see things , we may either turn a blind eye or resist hotly . |
| 4 | In view of the potential for chlamydia to damage the fallopian tubes we may even prevent a few cases of infertility in the process . |
| 5 | If he can help Zara to translate her enthusiasm , talent and desire into winning , then who knows , we may even have a champion on our hands . |
| 6 | We may also detect a crisis of national consciousness in the old nations , and for similar reasons . |
| 7 | We may also instruct a solicitor or debt collection agent . |
| 8 | We may also have a heightened sense of smell before periods , exaggerating any food preferences . |
| 9 | We may also see a relationship between a willingness to accept the authoritative knowledge of a subject and a willingness to defer to authority in general . |
| 10 | We may just need a bit of fine tuning on the day . ’ |
| 11 | We may well reach a situation in which all trials are held in the area in which they arise , and London retains special importance chiefly as the centre of appellate courts for the south of England . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the rise of ‘ a new kind of economy … threatening to many , demanding rapid changes in work , life-style and habits , hurls large populations terrified of the future into spasms of diehard reaction … instead of the much-touted end of ideology , we may , in both global and domestic affairs , see a multiplicity of new ideologies spring up … instead of President Bush 's famous thousand points of light we may well face a thousand fires of fury . ’ |
| 13 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |
| 14 | We may well create an independent Ukraine — the movement exists , the UTS , based in Munich , Germany . |
| 15 | Most of my friends will buy this album and we usually waste a lot of time discussing the merits of whatever record we have recently bought , so we may well have a few arguments on whether to eat meat or not . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , we decide that the sole purpose of the scrum is to bring back the ball into the game , we may well use a free pass instead ’ . |
| 17 | The magisterial pronouncement of Sir George Macdonald on the Antonine Wall has now been overthrown by the brilliant study of the samian by Brian Hartley ( 1972 ) , and the work at Carpow and other Severan sites will help to stabilize the dating of the pottery of this period , so with more revisions and adjustments , we may eventually have a framework which will endure , but only possible since all the groundwork had been so carefully prepared . |
| 18 | ‘ We may eventually have a slightly longer season — even accounting for a reduction in Premier League matches . |
| 19 | Hence , we may reasonably expect a resultative flavour when an adverbal adjective is combined with a change-of-state verb . |
| 20 | A baby surely finds pleasure in being tickled without having first desired it , and we may similarly enjoy a sudden glow of warm sunshine on our back which we had not sought . |
| 21 | If the Shah and the British showed good sense , he remarked , " we may really give a serious defeat to Russian intentions and plans in that area " . |
| 22 | In Williams ' chapter ( 3.1 ) , we may perhaps see a justification of equality of condition or outcome on the basis of equality of opportunity . |
| 23 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 24 | We may usefully draw an analogy here with the women 's movement in which it soon became apparent that if the real extent and nature of sexual oppression were to be understood , and services appropriate to real needs struggled for , feminist psychologies which recognised the individual consequences of collective oppression , and traced their causes beyond the individual to the mechanisms of that oppression , would have to be developed . |
| 25 | Distortion of doubly-degenerate states gives two maxima , but often these are not resolved , and we may only observe a broadening of the band . |
| 26 | Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone . |
| 27 | We 're no less serious of purpose today but we may now seem a little less po-faced . |
| 28 | Returning to Iraq 's frontier with Iran , and to the part of it closest to the PUK heartland around Suleimaniyah , we may now look a little more closely at Val Fajr No 4 . |
| 29 | We may now consider a paper of Stoyanov ( 1979 ) in which he claimed to have obtained a solution without singularities . |
| 30 | Well , we , we may not actually need to go to the P W L B for money , because of the , because of the grant , we may actually get a hundred percent grant aid for this , and if we get a hundred perce hundred percent grant aid , we wo n't need to . |