Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same will apply in deciding what we may legitimately say that animals , in the absence of language , see , hear , or smell . |
| 2 | Thus even before starting any calculations we may immediately say that A will only have an unc component and that will be independent of |
| 3 | We may generously assume that Hippel did not really believe what he said , but was merely putting a rhetorical flourish on a widely-accepted piece of wisdom . |
| 4 | We may confidently say that the typical semantic constituent passes the test . |
| 5 | We may even suggest that the theory of contracts presents an ideal terrain for an examination of these fundamental issues of political philosophy , for the law of contract lies at the intersection of the market and the state , using the coercive power of the latter to reinforce the discipline of the former . |
| 6 | We may become more like them in our styles and habits ; we may begin to look at our children as our parents looked at us ; we may even assume that we will die at the age at which they died , and of the same disease or in the same way . |
| 7 | At this point , we may simply note that the method involved is essentially the same . |
| 8 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
| 9 | In the light of these new data , we can assume this to be correct ; we may also assume that the extant Hotteterre flutes were made in Martin 's workshop . |
| 10 | We may also say that the linguistic expressions ( or their meanings ) that appear in particular token constructions identify entities and properties ( and we shall feel free to extend this use of identify to the activity of the speakers and writers who use the constructions ) . |
| 11 | We may also note that , when this message was sent to MACMIS in the afternoon of 15 May , AFHQ was under the impression that 5 Corps had already taken surrender of the 200,000 Croats , which was why Tito was being asked to " instruct his commander to accept them " . |
| 12 | We may also note that it is possible for the word instantiating the subordinate element to be otiose from the point of view of the speaker or hearer or both ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 13 | We may also note that certain verbs seem to have the notion of change of state as the principal part of their meaning , not only make ( in one of its values ) as already cited , but also have ( again in one of its meanings ; see Chapter 9 for other uses ) , and render . |
| 14 | We may also find that more and more top management jobs in big companies are filled by hiring people away from smaller companies . |
| 15 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 16 | Here , as often with the author of Thankyou , Fog , we may well suspect that Auden generalizes about English life too much on the basis of his own late-Edwardian childhood in a comfortable rentier household . |
| 17 | Wherever we see an ancient town church without a churchyard , we may well suspect that the town is the daughter of some mother village near by — now completely overshadowed by its offspring — and that it came into existence at a comparatively late date , since the Norman Conquest anyway , and most probably in the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 18 | Secondly , we may well doubt that the reconciliation of opposites is really a sound principle for defining poetry , whether it is truly applicable to all the texts one would wish to include under the heading of poetry or good literature . |
| 19 | And we may well agree that there is little else that one can imagine existing alone and being of any great value . |
| 20 | Thus , he argued , while we may well believe that the world is in fact designed by God , we can not prove it . |
| 21 | At the same time the actions of Theudebert and Chilperic , as well as those of the disloyal followers covered by the Treaty of Andelot , show that kings were expected to offer incentives , and we may well believe that the distribution of land and wealth was the major factor in ensuring that a king had a loyal following . |
| 22 | We may well find that what we are saying comes to others as God 's word with prophetic power , as it has already so come to us . |
| 23 | If the forms of the two potential functions are similar too , we may well find that the ground-state level for the ion lies almost exactly over that for the molecule in the energy diagram ( Fig. 6.13 ) . |
| 24 | We may reasonably think that the vase-picture of the Underworld does bring us really close to the composition of a lost wall-painting , but it is adapted to the small , curved surface of a pot ( though , being a calyx-krater , the curve is only horizontal , and it does retain some of the character of a wall ) , and there are other important differences , in particular the nature of the red-figure technique . |
| 25 | About two million acres of waste have been enclosed by act since 1700 , so that we may reasonably assume that at the beginning of the eighteenth century there were about seven million acres of ‘ waste ’ all told rather than the ten million estimated by Gregory King . |
| 26 | Incontinence , however , was poorly defined ( for solid or liquid stools ) , but we may reasonably suppose that in many cases it was for liquid stools only . |
| 27 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 28 | In a relatively focused community such as Ballymacarrett , therefore , we observe much greater regularity in the patterning of the variable elements than we do in less focused communities , and we may further suggest that the variants used in such a focused community develop a clear and consistent pattern in their social functions . |
| 29 | Thus ( 54 ) , with an adjective which can occur predicatively ( but not in the prenominal attributive position ) , is quite acceptable ; but ( 55 ) , containing galore which is excluded from ordinary predicative position , is not : ( 54 ) the observers reported Her Majesty ( to be ) asleep ( 55 ) the observers reported the whisky ( to be ) galore We may further note that there are certain inherently restrictive adjectives ( including superlatives and , under certain conditions , ordinals ) which imply selection out of a known set , and which appear to occur ( unlike most adjectives ) in ordinary predicative position accompanied by the definite article : ( 56 ) ( a ) your slice is the largest ( b ) your slice is the small ( See Chapter 7 ; and Ferris , in preparation . ) |
| 30 | It is not obvious whether there are any other independent aspects of the syntactic structure which may influence the question whether a minor property qualifies another property or " passes through " it to reach a referential locus ; we may provisionally assume that the nature of the individual lexical items provides the primary constraint on whether a property qualifying another property finds the latter to be permeable or not . |