Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you may be aware , elements of the corporate financial services work we may do for you are regulated under the Financial Services Act ( ‘ FSA ’ ) by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( ‘ ICAEW ’ ) as investment business ( ‘ regulated work ’ ) . |
| 2 | We may complain about it many times , but think of its wonderful facility of allowing us to phone that relative in the United States , or a friend a few miles away , or the butcher , or our business , and so on . |
| 3 | Equally , we would seldom be likely to use the word acrobatic of acrobats themselves or their doings except , precisely , on occasions when they are exercising their special skills — the rest of the time we may speak of them , if a description is needed at all , as large , or rich , or charming , as standing on his dignity , or asking for black coffee , or younger than Aunt Mary , and so on . |
| 4 | The painting clearly represents a real instrument , and since the picture was intended for Handel to keep ( as we may infer from his afterwards presenting it to Harris ) there seems to be little likelihood of the painter substituting an instrument with which the composer had no connection . |
| 5 | We may think of them as competing for various tenures . |
| 6 | Such , Artemisia , we may find in you |
| 7 | In each case we may trace from them important effects on learning in schools today on the curriculum plans , on policy and programmes for teacher training and , most significant , on the attitudes of teachers themselves and of those who train them . |
| 8 | From some of the evidence in Chapters 4.2 , 6.1 , and 7.2 to 7.6 , we may agree with them . |
| 9 | On further reflection , however , we may apply to it T. W. Baldwin 's criticism of the genre as a whole : ‘ A brilliant aphorism is a dangerous thing . |
| 10 | Whatever we may put into them , it is certainly not our hearts . |
| 11 | We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours . |
| 12 | ‘ In future cases where a new regime comes to power unconstitutionally our attitude on the question of whether it qualifies to be treated as a government , will be left to be inferred from the nature of the dealings , if any , which we may have with it , and in particular on whether we are dealing with it on a normal government to government basis . |
| 13 | When Jesus receives news that Lazarus is ill , Thomas urges everyone back to the sick man 's home in Bethany , ‘ that we may die with him ’ . |
| 14 | I was going to suggest that this is er , I mean I 've made a note of this question , that we ought to return to it next time |
| 15 | ‘ Have a look at the correspondence column , and tell me what we ought to do about it . ’ |
| 16 | 1p. 61 ) That is , they tend to move between a claim as to how we do in fact conceive of causation and a recommendation as to how we ought to conceive of it . |
| 17 | then I think that we ought to comment on it but if we are doing media response |
| 18 | I do not believe that it is , and we ought to look at it again . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) suggested that , because this is the only Bill on the table , we should settle for it or we will not get anything . |
| 20 | To pursue one of these modes of explanation is inevitably to adopt a strongly normative picture of what the social world is like and why we should bother with it . |
| 21 | Now a couple of problems which are frequently taken for fungus trouble , but which in fact are not , so perhaps we should talk about them here , between the fungus diseases and the physiological disorders . |
| 22 | I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps we should speak to her . ’ |
| 24 | There are two aspects of the lift to which comment and criticism constantly return and , before leaving the technological issues to the mercy of future critics , we should return to them for a moment . |
| 25 | Yeah but if it 's going to be shown to ultimately thousands of people and to last at least a couple of years , we should invest in it . |
| 26 | ‘ But if they do , we should go with them . |
| 27 | I think it sounds pretty good fun , I think we should go for it . |
| 28 | ‘ Peter thinks we should go after them , ’ Jim said , polishing off his coffee . |
| 29 | D'Aubigny rose , greeted us civilly and indicated we should sit with him . |
| 30 | Perhaps we should think about it , instead of drifting on from day to day . |