Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them . |
| 6 | ‘ Forget about the bullets , we may find them in the morning . ’ |
| 7 | Anselm met them as best he could as they arose , and we may trace them step by step , less to recall the stages in an archbishop 's promotion , than to understand the state of mind in which Anselm progressed from one stage to the next . |
| 8 | Even John Henry Newman wrote this about animals : ‘ We may use them , we may destroy them at our pleasure . |
| 9 | Even John Henry Newman wrote this about animals : ‘ We may use them , we may destroy them at our pleasure . |
| 10 | We need to bring them into the light and recognise them so that we may dispatch them . ’ |
| 11 | Often we may equate them with more formal partnerships which fall by the wayside after only a short existence ; except that in their breakdown the feelings of guilt , humiliation and bitterness may occur even more strongly than when an " honest " attempt is felt to have been made . |
| 12 | We may visualise them as wavelengths and orbits about a nucleus — with some similarity to a miniature solar system . |
| 13 | We may need them , but we should also spare a thought for our cats when using them , or sooner or later our pet animals will suffer . |
| 14 | I 've a feeling we may need them before this is over . ’ |
| 15 | We may accept them , to oblige : to save another 's face . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We may criticise them , using our own high expectations , and find that they fall short . |
| 18 | Those of us who enjoy them need only a name for each condition , so that we may discuss them in expectation and in recollection . |
| 19 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 20 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 21 | But it does not follow from this , as Rollin seems to suppose , that we ought to allow them to do so in the absence of clear signs of distress . |
| 22 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 23 | Yeah , well I think that we ought to get them or somebody to put a retraction , I mean we dare n't do it ourselves , but I think in next month 's |
| 24 | ‘ Therefore , ’ he said , with impeccable logic , ‘ we ought to climb them . ’ |
| 25 | She said they had an awfully difficult job and we ought to help them as much as we could . |
| 26 | Perhaps we ought to fetch them . ’ |
| 27 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
| 28 | If , their litany ran , risks are low , we ought to accept them . |
| 29 | In addition we should eat them raw , or as lightly cooked as possible , to conserve the high ratio of vitamins , minerals and plant protein . |
| 30 | They would want a lot ; there is no reason that we should give them everything they ask for . |