Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all . |
| 2 | Never mind , ’ said Breeze valiantly , ‘ perhaps if we 're awfully careful and cheese-paring for the next forty years or so , we may end our days in some sweet little cottage with roses round the door … ’ |
| 3 | As our awareness of this quality of light increases , we may perceive it as centring on another figure — an inner or outer ‘ Lady of Light ’ — or as an identifiable principle to which we can begin to relate . |
| 4 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 5 | We may regard it as sharing with positivism the view that the significant features of a legal system ( that is , its aims and components ) can be adequately understood without reference to the political or economic realities in which the legal systems operates . |
| 6 | In any case , as far as everyday quantum mechanics is concerned , we may regard our use of imaginary time and Euclidean space-time as merely a mathematical device ( or trick ) to calculate answers about real space-time . |
| 7 | Finally , we mentioned above that many third generation computers have a range of facilities to cover a number of application areas ; if some of these facilities are optional , we may particularize Our computer for an application area by selecting from these options . |
| 8 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 9 | In the same way we may stress ourselves at work , causing ulcers , backache and nervous breakdowns in the process , but for what ? |
| 10 | We may extend our analysis of urban-rural shift to these years , 1981–87 , by reference to Table 5.5 , which disaggregates the South and North of Great Britain further into types of districts , a breakdown that is more fully explained in Chapter 7 and utilized in Chapters 8 to 11 . |
| 11 | Gagné has provided a formula by which we may detect what is missing from a student 's repertoire . |
| 12 | We may detect his private opinion only at one point . |
| 13 | Exactly , we may make it the performance evaluation and the documentation attached to it that provides you your training record . |
| 14 | We may recognize their mannerisms in ourselves or find that we are talking to our children in just the tones that they talked to us . |
| 15 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 16 | We may supplement our observations on /Ε/; by considering evidence from present-day Ulster dialects . |
| 17 | Allowing anyone to discover your PIN ( intentionally or otherwise ) is a breach of the Conditions and we may debit your account with any withdrawal made by use of your Card in such circumstances . |
| 18 | They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman . |
| 19 | Perhaps tomorrow , or the day after we may continue our investigations ? ’ |
| 20 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 21 | Let's face it , we live with our negative parts and generally we may beat ourselves in public . |
| 22 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 23 | In traditional moral thought hypocrisy , like lying , has always been detested as a sin against the fundamental principle of human communication , namely that language was given to mankind so that we may express our thoughts and feelings openly , honestly . |
| 24 | We need an investigator of your reputation , Curb , to seek out the criminal , so we may punish him ’ . |
| 25 | They hurt , sometimes excruciatingly , but on the deepest level of all , it is somehow ‘ all right ’ ; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it , I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane , but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness . |
| 26 | If you can show me plainly where Tutilo was until past that hour , we may strike him from the roll and forget him . ’ |
| 27 | Next we decide which of these reflect the most pressing problems and which become our aims for intervention ( I ) and consider how we may record them ( 4 ) . |
| 28 | Help us to draw closer to others , in friendship and fellowship , so that as ambassadors for you we may convey Your message to the world today . |
| 29 | Arguably it provides a very strong constraint on managers to act efficiently , if we may assume they are concerned about their future career path and if they believe that the firm does not systematically assess their performance wrongly . |
| 30 | When age and period interact , we may assume we are dealing with the unique experiences of a generation growing up under particular conditions . |