Example sentences of "we [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is important , however , is that if the question of whether there was one is raised , we may be uncertain about the answer . |
| 2 | This is why less sleep can be just as effective in restoring us physically , though we may be used to sleeping longer . |
| 3 | Much higher quality than the bioprinting rollers that we may be used to using . |
| 4 | Most of the time , though , we are unlucky : the supernova remnant is invisible to us , although we may be fortunate enough to observe the expanding cloud of gases and other matter receding from the pulsar . |
| 5 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
| 6 | But we may be confident he will not lapse into indolence nor renounce the activities in which he excels . |
| 7 | continue in him so that when he appears we may be confident That 's good is n't it ? |
| 8 | It is accepting the lifestyle of Christ so that we may be usable for God 's glory . |
| 9 | We often pray in Assembly that we may be gentle and kind with other people . |
| 10 | Let us pray today that we may be gentle with ourselves , guarding ourselves from relationships that might exploit us or be hurtful . |
| 11 | ‘ We may be equal , but we 're not the same and we should bring our own , different , talents to work , not shoehorn ourselves into men 's positions . |
| 12 | Firstly , we may be critical of the way the field is set up , so that men and their behaviour are implicitly the norm and women 's behaviour becomes a deviation needing explanation . |
| 13 | ‘ We may be poor relations in pure financial terms but certainly not in either footballing or commercial terms . ’ |
| 14 | We may be poor , but we do n't need charity . ’ |
| 15 | Yet as an observer we may be alarmed or jealous if the recipient is the object of our own affection . |
| 16 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 17 | We may be sure that many people even in the eleventh century had doubts about this doctrine ; just as St Anselm was convinced that the road to Jerusalem which could be pursued within the walls of a monastery was safer and holier than that to Jerusalem itself . |
| 18 | We may be sure that the panache of the French royal chancellor inspired Thomas Becket to make the office equally great in the court of Henry 11 , just as it was the quarrel with Becket which no doubt determined Henry 11 to make the office ineffective after Becket had surrendered the Great Seal on his elevation to Canterbury . |
| 19 | Elizabeth was pregnant very shortly after their marriage ; a harrowing pregnancy , too , we may be sure , as that merciless winter and spring of 1770/1 set in . |
| 20 | And William was a very careful man , we may be sure : while they were still at 24 Wilmington Square , and he was still only in his twenties , he had the foresight to arrange for a Titford family grave at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , he is around — we may be sure of that ! |
| 22 | In later life Heisenberg was to admit ruefully that Wien was right to press his point , though we may be sure that Sommerfeld was right to press his point also . |
| 23 | then we may be sure both that the sergeant means his words to be perceived as an order , and that the private will perceive them as such . |
| 24 | Whatever cultural variation there may be in pragmatic interpretation , we may be sure that its interaction with form is language specific . |
| 25 | If so , we may be sure that computers will be in the van . |
| 26 | They lie ahead , and since they can travel at twice our pace , we may be sure that for all the length of our march we shall be subject to ambush . |
| 27 | As Ortega and Paul Ricoeur have argued , a metaphor affirms and denies an identity between two things : in likening a girl 's cheek to a rose we may be impressed by the similarity but are aware of the difference . |
| 28 | We may be young to ourselves , but we will always be old to our children . |
| 29 | ‘ We may be small but we 're quite tough . ’ |
| 30 | We may be convinced in our minds of the Bible 's authority : we will be even more convinced when we allow it to have its authority in our lives . |