Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |
| 2 | Listening involves hearing what is left unsaid as well as the words actually spoken and to hear in that way requires the sort of attention that , sadly , we may rarely offer to our own nearest and dearest . |
| 3 | In this connection we may even talk of rules of language , as if a linguistic practice were like a game . |
| 4 | We may even look at a team of , say , eight people to establish a ‘ norm ’ for a company — a bit like having to be five feet eight inches tall to get into the police . ’ |
| 5 | Er , because also yo you really do n't wan na play like three consecutive Sundays , but on some of you these yo we may even have to . |
| 6 | Occasionally we may even write to — or about — the author to say what his books mean to us . |
| 7 | There is no point in denying them , even though we may justifiably quibble about the subjectivity of palaeontologists , the imprecision of the boundaries and the importance of the hidden gaps . |
| 8 | Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated . |
| 9 | We may also refer to a writer like Meiklejohn ( 1909 ) ; his book is an excellent work of its kind , and despite the oft-repeated claims of more recent linguists that previous investigators had seriously neglected syntax , that subject receives no fewer than seventy pages in his treatment ( even when the allocation of words to word-classes is excluded ) . |
| 10 | In addition to the need for identifying appropriate bench-marks and a suitable framework of analysis , we may also ask about the rationale for engaging in work within the field of comparative industrial relations . |
| 11 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 12 | Next time we may well vote for the Scottish National Party , no more NUNGE . |
| 13 | We may well succeed in fashioning profound and powerful information products but there is a danger that our capacity to produce such products is outstripping the ability of human beings to grasp the full range of benefits they offer . |
| 14 | Appeals will surely ensue but in the meantime we may well sympathise with those Soprintendenze who feel tempted to put all restoration work on hold in the fear that in carrying out their proper duties they may find themselves being sentenced as criminals . |
| 15 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 16 | We may reasonably assume from Franco 's portly appearance throughout the " hungry years " that dolphin sandwiches and low-quality fish did not constitute his staple diet . |
| 17 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 18 | Instead of just the two states 1 and 0 , the information technology of living cells uses four states , which we may conventionally represent as A , T , C and G. There is very little difference , in principle , between a two-state binary information technology like ours , and a four-state information technology like that of the living cell . |
| 19 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 20 | We may further distinguish between preventive and health maintaining behaviour . |
| 21 | If we may further generalize on these projects , we may describe them as setting up models of teaching methods and materials , thus tending to extend and develop user education methods , rather than analysing and criticizing existing methodologies and materials . |
| 22 | We may therefore conclude in relation to bargaining structures ( whether centralised or decentralised ) that although there are clearly forces making for change in all countries their extent should , perhaps , not be over-estimated — especially not those changes which may appear to produce convergent systems . |
| 23 | We may therefore take as an example of our new dichotomy between the practical and the theoretical the teaching of English . |
| 24 | We may therefore propose as a specialization of our grounding formula : |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is our purpose to keep a channel open by which we may still talk with Glendower . ’ |
| 26 | This transition can be accomplished in 29 branchings , which we may naively think of as a stately walk of 29 steps across genetic space . |
| 27 | We will be thinking of that new life later in this communion service ; we pray ‘ that we may evermore dwell in him and he in us . ’ |
| 28 | We may only speculate upon how these survival rates will change in future decades . |
| 29 | We may only conjecture about the degree to which these subjective assessments were influenced by prior experience of the school in other contexts , the existence of good or bad relations between the reporter and the staff of the school , and the personal prejudices and preferences of the individual concerned . |
| 30 | In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time . |