Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may secretly take pride in our traditions and truth , but we are deficient as long as others are left outside in the cold and unable to share with us the sacrament of the Lord . |
| 2 | find their healing rather than bringing the remedy to the person , and we may again find healing in the landscape by tending and restoring old clumps . |
| 3 | We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) . |
| 4 | We may also know heroin users without realising it — a carefully managed habit is not incompatible with a healthy , active life . |
| 5 | Because we 're massively speeding up the evolutionary process , we may well create destabilisation within the ecosystem . |
| 6 | We may now substitute Eq . |
| 7 | We may never see husband Joe , kids Brian and Melandra , and the other characters who have unwittingly contributed to seal Shirley 's domestic destiny . |
| 8 | Hopefully as we improve our business , we may indeed see TV advertising in future years and we hope that we will become as well known as IBM , 3M or ICI . ’ |
| 9 | We may forever want confidence that we have come to the ultimate facts about some physical process . |
| 10 | These , for the most part , are theories about international relations ( hence the small letters ) , although we may occasionally take note of theories about the conduct of the discipline itself ( i.e. theories of International Relations ) . |
| 11 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 12 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 13 | We should also pay tribute to the Dutch presidency . |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend agree that we should also pay tribute to Friends of the Earth which , when I was a Minister at the Department of Transport , suggested that it would be sensible for the Minister with responsibility for roads to go to the Netherlands with some civil servants to see how traffic calming works there . |
| 15 | ‘ I think we should also make love as soon as possible , ’ he murmured , as his kisses deepened and their breathing began to quicken . |
| 16 | Interestingly , he adds : ‘ We should also consider art from other cultures . |
| 17 | We 've already paid the ordinary renewal fee , but do you think we should also have libel slander and officials indemnity ? |
| 18 | While the portrayal of disability issues in the arts arena should be viewed with the same critical eye as the presentation of issues in the political arena , we should also take care not to underestimate the role of the arts in assisting the processes of change . |
| 19 | ‘ As long as you are n't arguing that we should deliberately suppress knowledge or reject scientific progress just because the discoveries can be abused . |
| 20 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 21 | We should therefore seek evidence for long-distance exchange as indications of political alliances and the growth of centralised political organisation . |
| 22 | It may be convenient to think of an arms race between two lineages such as cattle and grass , or gazelles and cheetahs , but we should never lose sight of the fact that both participants have other enemies against whom they are simultaneously running other arms races . |
| 23 | Thus we should only praise conduct which needs to be stimulated in this way , even though other ( perhaps more selfish ) conduct which will be done anyway is itself good or better . |
| 24 | However , we must again take care , for though we find pleasure in following intricate counterpoints , imitations , inversions , double canons , and fugues , it is fairly certain that to the ordinary listener such music is an enigmatic confusion . |
| 25 | And we must both help Mum to do the honours . |
| 26 | For those who have relatives fighting in the Gulf we must also show support and sensitivity . |
| 27 | We must also avoid branch meetings seem like a gathering of old chums into which an outsider might be shy of intruding . |
| 28 | We must also give music its place in the crown of the arts . |
| 29 | We must also divert money from the expensive irrelevancies of poster campaigns and media triumphalism towards full-time agencies and local party-building . |
| 30 | In order properly to analyse the performance of the firm , we must also take account of these considerations . |