Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Exactly , we may make it the performance evaluation and the documentation attached to it that provides you your training record . |
| 5 | She was very impressed and there is a possibility we may stock it in the future along with other similar species buyers are currently investigating . |
| 6 | If your little treasury was well buried among the coppice wood , Father Herluin , we may recover it yet . ’ |
| 7 | We may think it hard-hearted of a Hagerhai woman to eat an animal that she once suckled , but at least the pig was recognised as an individual when it was alive — was even loved . |
| 8 | If this process becomes more than sporadic , we may label it ‘ critical ’ or ‘ reflexive ’ , in the sense of turning thought back on itself . |
| 9 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 10 | If unleashed too suddenly , the pain can overwhelm us and we may feel it too much to endure . |
| 11 | We may know it very well in our hearts , but what is there to prove the offence on him ? ’ |
| 12 | Whichever type of man we think of , we may find it difficult to say whether by ‘ property ’ we mean the things themselves or the aggregate of rights which are exercised over them . |
| 13 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 14 | In practice we may find it difficult to separate the hardware of the data manipulation unit from that of the control unit . |
| 15 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 16 | But those of us who deal with bureaucratic institutions simply as part of normal life , while we may find it frustrating , even demeaning , can at least retreat into the private institutions of our family where , if we are lucky , we will find acceptance , support and warmth . |
| 17 | Modern man must remember that in earlier times people washed less frequently and that , however chauvinistic we may find it today , women were usually available to fetch water whenever it was needed , even over a distance of several miles . |
| 18 | course and other staff lecture programmes , we may find it cost-effective to purchase the output hardware some time after 1996 . |
| 19 | If we wish to study Lake Tahoe from the point of view of hydrology , fauna and water quality we may find it necessary to extract from maps of these features the polygonal area defining the extent of the lake . |
| 20 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 21 | Since f is a function of λ which vanishes at the eigenvalues , we may use it in the Newton-Raphson method to obtain an improved approximation |
| 22 | Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime . |
| 23 | But another quite plausible explanation presents itself : here was a lady whose role in life was changing , whose function as a mother and whose status — if we may call it that — as a widow were becoming things of the past . |
| 24 | This discussion if we may call it that — was part of a wider , on-going debate of what constituted true nobility . |
| 25 | For example , we may write it as unc and use the regression formula unc so that , for example , if Ro = 0 , we should obtain unc and so on . |
| 26 | If we do not need all that DP equipment now we may need it in the future . |
| 27 | We may not obtain it , or we may obtain it and find it renders us unhappy ; we must still believe in it . |
| 28 | They appear in the documents section and therefore do not , we may take it , represent the views of the editors . |
| 29 | We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers . |
| 30 | In fact we may take it from the wording of Section 2 of the Definition Order that , during the conference questions were asked about the liability of individuals to repatriation , or Section 2 might not have been included at all . |