Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction . |
| 2 | As we go on in our faith , we may be led into areas ‘ beyond reason ’ , but what we mean by this is beyond humanly discernible reasons and not in any sense against reason . |
| 3 | If we are at the bottom of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy physiological needs . |
| 4 | At the top of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy self-actualisation needs . |
| 5 | This is not the moment to rehearse the arguments for and against the various options with which we may be presented in December , so I leave the House with two brief thoughts . |
| 6 | Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole . |
| 7 | With other feelings we may be burdened by their strength , yet still be free enough to choose whether we express them to others by word or action , indulge them or keep a tight rein on them . |
| 8 | It is more likely that such hoards will be found today simply because of their size , so we may be dealing with a higher rate of recovery for these hoards than is normal for hoards of other periods . |
| 9 | We may be dealing with an energy currently unknown to science , but it made sense to start by monitoring known energies . |
| 10 | What 's really worrying me is that we may be dealing with amateurs . ’ |
| 11 | They hold that we may , with justification , be certain of beliefs which , we admit , risk falsification , or that we may be justified in holding beliefs although there are none of which we are certain . |
| 12 | The form of the verb in one sentence can limit the choice of the verb form in the next , and we may be justified in saying that a verb form in one sentence is ‘ wrong ’ , or at least ‘ unlikely ’ , because it does not fit with the form in another . |
| 13 | I hope we may be forgiven for feeling a little jubilant , on that beautiful dawn , at the thought that together we had helped to raise over 20,000 for Christian Aid . |
| 14 | As we get older , we may be abused by other authority figures — teachers , doctors , bosses . |
| 15 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 16 | It is clear that this impression made upon us is no less significant in determining our conception of the individuals concerned than the articulate self-expression represented by the conversation we may be engaged in within this setting . |
| 17 | They exist in written messages too , where we may be influenced by handwriting or typography , and by whether the message is in an expensive book or on a scrap of paper . |
| 18 | We may be placed in the same street , but there is room for both of us and more . |
| 19 | Now there is nothing wrong with this argument as it stands , but it is weak ; it assumes that there are other minds than our own , and argues only that we may be mistaken about their states , thinking someone to be happy when she is really sad , etc . |
| 20 | ‘ We may be looking at a racial motive , but there is no doubt they were copying the other carjackings . ’ |
| 21 | In making a comparison we may be looking for points of similarity in order to aid our recognition ( and consequent action ) or we may be looking for points of difference . |
| 22 | In making a comparison we may be looking for points of similarity in order to aid our recognition ( and consequent action ) or we may be looking for points of difference . |
| 23 | I think we may be called upon to wander . ’ |
| 24 | Thus , while we may be born with a certain ‘ equipment ’ this does not necessarily determine behaviour ; and , furthermore , behaviour can alter the equipment . |
| 25 | Changes in the provision of health care and increasing awareness of the demoralising effects of our traditional system on the students going through it are driving changes , and we may be poised on the brink of a steep acceleration in the number of schools willing to make radical changes in their courses . |
| 26 | Since the structures adduced to support Cable 's arguments seem sound , we may be coming to a position where the study of prosody has mentalistic goals . |
| 27 | We may be pardoned for reproducing a part of the opinion of The American Annals of the Deaf of this quarter on the subject : " The retention of the word " Dumb " — which in America has been dropped from the titles of the Convention of Instructors , The National Association , and several State Associations of the Deaf , and many schools , as well as from the United States Census — is probably due to a vote to that effect by the conference held in London last January ; but as our British friends who constitute the Association seem to favour American precedents , we trust that on further consideration they will follow our example in this respect alone , and omit the objectionable word from their title " . |
| 28 | This year 's theme , in the year of the Columbus commemorations , presented some dealers with difficulties , but , as one observed , ‘ Strictly speaking , not much was American in patronage before 1776 , so we may be excused for stretching the definition ’ . |
| 29 | We may be reminded of the ‘ hummadruz ’ , or mysterious humming with no apparent cause , which occurs from time to time , particularly at ancient sites . |
| 30 | We may be suffering from the concept that sex was invented by the publishers of Playboy magazine rather than God , and this needs to be dealt with . |