Example sentences of "we may [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 2 | We may of course get different amounts of utility if our tastes differ , but we all consume the same quantity . |
| 3 | Erm we may of course go to Bowness next year if the circumstances change and we can manage it that will course cost a fair amount of money but that remains to be seen , we 'll have to wait and see how the club progresses during the year whether we think we can do it . |
| 4 | Thus in the absence of complications due to symmetry , we may in principle count the number of CO ligands in a complex simply by counting the CO stretching bands in the vibrational spectrum . |
| 5 | Close links with Heidelberg , the major German printing press manufacturer , give us hope that we may in time become a test-bed for Direct Imaging driven from our Macintosh pre-press system . |
| 6 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 7 | Even when we do not follow a conscious spiritual path in terms of a religious faith , we may in fact be realising our purpose in some other way . |
| 8 | We may in fact know more and not less about a fictional character than about most real people of our acquaintance . |
| 9 | We may in fact anticipate some slippage in the timetable as a result of two factors . |