Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We may detect his private opinion only at one point . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We may supplement our observations on /Ε/; by considering evidence from present-day Ulster dialects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps tomorrow , or the day after we may continue our investigations ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We may anticipate its conclusions on the basis of its predecessors . |
| 13 | Indeed we may inhibit their development if we force them to use unfamiliar approaches which slow down their thinking in the cause of a mistaken view of what it is to work systematically . |
| 14 | Our farmers , seeking retribution or justice , and our consumers , who are equally seeking those concepts , now have to go to Brussels , for there is no way in which we may satisfy their aspirations . |
| 15 | We must be careful , Poole , or we may involve your master in some terrible danger . ’ |
| 16 | We also urge our sisters to help us reopen our educational institutions so that we may rescue our future generations from the disasters of ignorance and illiteracy which are threatening our children . |
| 17 | Farrar s sentimentality may be excessive but we may envy his freedom to recognize and express childhood affection as well as childhood aggression ( ‘ I 'll kill you for that , ’ said Barker , leaping at Eric , and seizing him by the hair' ( ibid . |
| 18 | But , for the time to come , I hope we may double our diligence , if the war with France do not obstruct our endeavours … for time is so far spent , past our meridian , that the affair calls for diligence . |
| 19 | During a panic attack we may feel our heart beating very fast and very hard , our bodies begin to sweat very heavily , we may feel unreal , faint , dizzy , and nauseous as blood is pumped away from the head and the stomach . |
| 20 | Grant that in this new year we may know your presence , see your love at work , and live in the light of the vent which gives us joy forever — the coming of your Son , Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 21 | Today we may find his attitude most approachable when it is oblique , as it is in Mr Midshipman Easy , when the sense and reason behind naval rules and regulations are stated through the absurd mistakes , misconceptions and malfeasances of a youth who has been brought up to believe in the ideal of total equality . |
| 22 | If we do make a profit , we may lose our charitable status . |
| 23 | If we do so we may deny our pain , it would be to pretend that all is well , and that would mean to deny the biblical faith . |
| 24 | We may question our assumptions and look around the environment even more rarely . |
| 25 | Let us pray that we may use our own experiences — our grief , our worries and our disappointments — to help other people cope with their problems . |
| 26 | The promise was probably vague , we 'll see it , we may use our good offices to the United Nations to some sort of embargoes or , that 's all ca they 're likely to be promised because we 're not in a position to promise anything . |
| 27 | Let us pray that we may develop our ability to feel compassion . |
| 28 | The great strength of capitalism , I suggested , whatever its failings , is what we may call its psychology of opportunism , its offer of more . |
| 29 | This defect in the simple social structure of primary rules we may call its uncertainty . |
| 30 | Yet we are also familiar within ourselves with what we may call our rational streak . |