Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God has gone ahead of us to provide , in the suffering and death of his Son , all the special grace we may individually need to cope with evil and the abuse of love . |
| 2 | Now the ith diagonal element of this product is unc and we may clearly choose di to make this element unity . |
| 3 | Consequently , I think we may legitimately expect to see an attempt , though not before the Nazis are observed to be definitely on the point of throwing in their hand , to undertake some minor military venture independent , if at all possible , of the general strategy of the Allies . |
| 4 | The same will apply in deciding what we may legitimately say that animals , in the absence of language , see , hear , or smell . |
| 5 | We may legitimately ask why , given GPs ' professional concern with mental health , this should be the case to a greater extent than with other — frequently lay — referrals . |
| 6 | Coercion may well be an inherent part of the metaphoric process , but we may nevertheless ask whether it might not be possible to imagine a different type of metaphor , one that was truly interactive in a positive sense . |
| 7 | We may secretly take pride in our traditions and truth , but we are deficient as long as others are left outside in the cold and unable to share with us the sacrament of the Lord . |
| 8 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |
| 9 | Wrangham comments : ‘ We may thus find the first evidence that so-called abnormal sexual behaviour may have a biological function ’ ; but he points out that a number of issues need to be resolved . |
| 10 | We may thus envisage a gradient of what we shall term establishment of senses . |
| 11 | Then unc permutes with a diagonal matrix and is therefore itself diagonal : unc But ( see ( 3 ) ) is arbitrary to a postmultiplying diagonal matrix ; we may thus write unc and then from ( 5 ) unc In the special case where B , C are symmetric , we may evidently identify Y with X. |
| 12 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 13 | ‘ We may soon witness the recurrence of all those awful health problems which made Diana so terribly ill , ’ says Penny . |
| 14 | We may soon see her own range of fashions . |
| 15 | We may soon see a nursery ABC frieze , which goes : A is for Aids , B is for Bondage , C is for Condom , D is for Deviancy , E is for Equality , F is for Feminism , G is for Gender Stereotyping , H is for Haringey , I is for Income Support , J is for Joyriding , K is for karma , L is for Liberalism , M is for Ms. , N is for New Age , O is for Outing , P is for Positive Discrimination , Q is for Questioning Authority , R is for Radical , S is for Single Parent , T is for Therapy , U is for Underprivileged , V is for Virtual Reality , W is for Wimmin , X is for Malcolm , Y is for Yoof and Z is for Zen . |
| 16 | A : Because we may soon die , Sir . |
| 17 | Thus even before starting any calculations we may immediately say that A will only have an unc component and that will be independent of |
| 18 | The radical implications of this assertion can be gleaned from an observation of Montaigne 's : ‘ We may easily discern , that only custom makes that seem impossible unto us , which is not so ’ ( Essays , trans . |
| 19 | We may ultimately have people pulling together plans where they assessment is done by a range of people outside social services . ’ |
| 20 | We may generously assume that Hippel did not really believe what he said , but was merely putting a rhetorical flourish on a widely-accepted piece of wisdom . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Britain , though we may not think it , has one of the smallest rubbish-per-head rates for industrialized countries in the world . |
| 23 | We may not present quite as many , but we plan to continue to be lively . |
| 24 | The progression associated with ionization of a strongly bonding level may show a maximum ( the vertical ionization energy ) well down the band , and we may not detect the ( 0 → 0 ) level ( the adiabatic ionization energy ) . |
| 25 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 26 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 27 | ‘ We may not choose to come , ’ he blustered . |
| 28 | On the one hand , it is clear that we depend for survival upon our bodies , whereas we may not want to say that God depends upon the world for survival . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 30 | We may not want it but the government is going to demand it and we as custodians of the services on the part of the people of Cambridge , are going to have to do as sensibly and sensitively as possible . |