Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] that the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If there is little generalization of the new response to the test stimuli , we may conclude that the stimulus used in acquisition and that used in the test are readily discriminated . |
| 2 | More generally , we may conclude that the Bain-Elsheikh study provides support from several countries for the effects of economic conditions and the influence of public policy upon union growth . |
| 3 | From this we may conclude that the ‘ at least ’ sense of numerals is not established . |
| 4 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 5 | Since charged particles rarely travel close to the velocity of light we may conclude that the magnetic forces are by orders of magnitude smaller than the electric forces . |
| 6 | Summarizing our findings so far we may conclude that the ego , far from emerging fully formed , in fact underwent a very lengthy and indeed complex process of development in the evolution of the human race . |
| 7 | [ Ch 7 ] As a further example , we may observe that the formal rhetoric of parallelism , anaphora , etc is characteristic of Dickens in many of his moods : it is illustrated in passages [ 3 ] " [ 4 ] " and [ 5 ] . |
| 8 | To complete this discussion , we may observe that the companion matrix , or its equivalent — the regression formula , may be used to find complex roots of a determinantal equation ( see 1.7.6 ) . |
| 9 | One day we may hope that the spade and exploration under water will advance our knowledge much further and bring us close to the expanding merchant fleets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 10 | But we may hope that the small differences in binding energies that correspond to the chemical shifts between different samples will be correctly reproduced . |
| 11 | In a field that is patchy in space and time , be it ever so small , we may expect that the populations of a species such as white clover will , at any time , reflect selective forces from its past . |
| 12 | If such a model is correct , we may speculate that the movement of such female associated items may have been enhanced if the giving of women in marriage was at all common . |
| 13 | There were obvious problems resulting from the overcrowding of working-class homes but we may speculate that the social-purity agitation over incest reflected middle-class anxieties and tensions concerning the sanctity of the family rather than the objective reality of working-class conditions . |
| 14 | Whether the original low-tech replicators were mineral crystals or organic direct forerunners of DNA itself , we may guess that the ‘ power ’ they exercised was direct and elementary , like stickiness . |
| 15 | In short , we may guess that the original recension of Lex Salica , a work which included traditional legal custom as well as royal edicts , was compiled for Clovis , perhaps by Frankish lawmen , but certainly with the help of Roman lawyers . |
| 16 | " We may regret that the Commissioners did not pursue a more spirited foreign policy and visit the United States of America , where , beyond a doubt , they would have seen results which would have qualified their condemnation of the combined system . |
| 17 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 18 | We may feel that the argument exposes idiosyncrasies in the concept of knowledge but that we can get by very well both for practical and philosophical purposes with the surviving notion of justified belief . |
| 19 | We may find that the writer was completely biased in his views and that he falsified his evidence , in which case he is a perjurer and we should hold him in contempt . |
| 20 | We may find that the corporatist vision of the company is legitimating a structure of hierarchical managerial power by appealing to the purposes for which that power is exercised . |
| 21 | In respect of the supposed vicarious eroticism of the genre , however , we may argue that the unembarrassed and disembarrassed honesty of the fabliaux " sexual fantasies largely precludes any lingering upon the process of arousal in the form of a gradual uncovering of the tale 's sexual core . |
| 22 | For instance , we may agree that the course should include such topics as word processing , graphics scanning and page makeup applications , but there could be debate as to which heading(s) they fall under . |
| 23 | Given that the subjects were trained not to raise the negative flap at all , we may say that the difference between associates established to the two stimuli was greater in the case in which the more extensive motor response was required — that is , in the condition that produced superior transfer to a test discrimination involving the same stimuli . |
| 24 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 25 | Thus for the structural functionalist we may say that the ends ( social solidarity ) always justify the means ( social institutions ) . |
| 26 | Looking back , we may say that the years around 1300 were to attain some significance in this domain . |
| 27 | In place of saying that if the effect occurred so did the cause , we may say that the occurrence of the effect required that of the cause . |
| 28 | Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread . |
| 29 | The characteristic parallel band contour for ν 2 ( a 1 ) and perpendicular contours for ν 5 and ν 6 ( e ) leave no doubt about the correct assignments , and so we may say that the germyl rocking frequency characteristically lies between 550 and 650 cm -1 . |
| 30 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |