Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the joys of freedom and release will seem more reliable and beneficial , but in ecstasy there is one of the great potentialities of the transcendent for one day we may reach a state of perpetual ecstasy . |
| 2 | We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private . |
| 3 | We may make a trip to Glen Nevis next month . |
| 4 | We may identify a number of different reasons for this lack of clarity . |
| 5 | Now , he thought , there is none to whom we may entrust a message . |
| 6 | We may construct a table for such definitions ( Table 1 ) . |
| 7 | Certainly we may feel a resistance to the idea that mental events are in space . |
| 8 | We may find a use for you one day in some undercover job . ’ |
| 9 | This letter outlines how we may assist a client with an acquisition search in the UK . |
| 10 | This example letter outlines how we may assist a client with an acquisition from overseas , involving acquisition search , targeting , approach and completion . |
| 11 | This example letter outlines how we may assist a client with an acquisition , involving acquisition search , targeting , approach and completion , ie a full deal management service . |
| 12 | It was no less a figure than Professor Derek de Solla Price , in his Little Science , Big Science , who expressed one perspective on science in the following terms : ‘ We may define a man 's solidness … as the logarithm of his life 's score of papers . |
| 13 | And we may antagonize a lot of people in doing so . |
| 14 | We know this because sometimes we may use a word which we ourselves consider innocuous , only to find that it produces a strong emotional response in someone else . |
| 15 | So rather than covering entire platforms , we may use a design at a focal point within a station , but not where it clashes with the operational side of things . ’ |
| 16 | Thus he slices through the old argument between ‘ formalism ’ and ‘ realism ’ by inserting what we may call a notion of intervention . |
| 17 | On the basis of this analogy we may call a ring current a magnetic dipole , or more precisely we should say that sufficiently far away from a ring current the magnetic field appears as if it was created by two closely spaced magnetic charges ( which of course do not exist ) . |
| 18 | Here we may discern a connection with the Whig imagery of balance which dominated constitutional writing a century earlier . |
| 19 | Occasionally we may catch a glimpse of Miller 's interest in flower arrangement and he continued , ‘ The flowers being single are not valued , but the branches of the Shrubs are cut to intermix with Flowers to place in Basons to adorn Halls , Parlours , etc. in the Spring of the Year , the scent of this plant being agreeable to most persons . ’ |
| 20 | We may imagine a measure of disappointment when these requests were vetoed by the committee , and it is clear that some re-education of staff must have been necessary in arriving at appropriate submissions . |
| 21 | We may have a head filled with reasons why we do not . |
| 22 | The only world tournament we may have a chance of winning |
| 23 | Seems we may have a chance of finding out : In America , 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley has already ‘ divorced ’ his real parents in a successful legal action . |
| 24 | But now that Royal Ballerina is in , we may have a race of truly Classic proportions . |
| 25 | But now that Royal Ballerina is in , we may have a race of truly Classic proportions . |
| 26 | ‘ I think we may have a bit of a problem on our hands … ’ |
| 27 | Thus we may have a close-up of a character weeping , viewed from a position in which , if the viewer were actually there , he would be coshed for intrusion of privacy . |
| 28 | On Tuesdays we may have a school football match but we usually do not have one . |
| 29 | We may have a system of " one person one vote " , but Liberals and Social Democrats point out that we do not yet have a system of " one person one vote one value " since some votes are more equal than others . |
| 30 | ‘ I think we may have a breakthrough . |