Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private . |
| 2 | At first the joys of freedom and release will seem more reliable and beneficial , but in ecstasy there is one of the great potentialities of the transcendent for one day we may reach a state of perpetual ecstasy . |
| 3 | Good quality , additive-free , fresh lean meat is an excellent food , but our fast food philosophy means we may eat a lesser version . |
| 4 | Finally , we may detect a marked tendency to integrate subjects hitherto taught separately , a trend reflecting curriculum practice in Britain but also stemming from a desire to stress the relatedness of learning within a child 's own environment . |
| 5 | If we drop a tin can probably nothing will happen ; at the worst we may make a small dent . |
| 6 | At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations . |
| 7 | We may make a trip to Glen Nevis next month . |
| 8 | Thus we may recognize a general classification of three kinds of melodic phrase : |
| 9 | From these reports , we may identify a general category of the chronically sick : people who replied ‘ yes ’ when asked if they had a long-standing illness , disability or infirmity which limited their activities in any way . |
| 10 | We may identify a number of different reasons for this lack of clarity . |
| 11 | Now , he thought , there is none to whom we may entrust a message . |
| 12 | We may construct a table for such definitions ( Table 1 ) . |
| 13 | Using elementary operations of this kind , we may construct a canonical form of lambda-matrices , which is diagonal , the elements in the diagonal being functions of |
| 14 | We may choose a professional sports person as our referent and bemoan the fact that our salaries do not compare despite the fact that we may have as much talent in our chosen fields . |
| 15 | If we begin with too cavalier an attitude toward them , we may miss a certain richness in our intellectual heritage and one that had a profound bearing on how the word science was understood , by both practitioners and their public . |
| 16 | Certainly we may feel a resistance to the idea that mental events are in space . |
| 17 | Using the hypothetical data we may calculate a riskless hedge for the investor : |
| 18 | We may find a use for you one day in some undercover job . ’ |
| 19 | We may find a common denominator in one particular character who plays central or peripheral parts in seven of her ‘ Empire ’ books . |
| 20 | As before , we may find a suitable initial column such as ( 4 ) . |
| 21 | Although we may find a particularly explicit conceptualization of the autonomous self in certain contemporary societies , this may be only an aspect of the more general separation and autonomy of concepts evident in modernist theory . |
| 22 | The problems are more urgent now because there is the possibility that we may find a complete unified theory in as little as twenty years . |
| 23 | If these variations remind us of the history of the Alps , then so much the better : we may find a better balance to the continuing battle between development and conservation . |
| 24 | If we recover more of a text 's historicity , recapture the lost agencies which originally motivated its emergence and come to understand more about the conditions of its emergence , we may find a cultural presence strange and apparently remote from our own . |
| 25 | However , if this is not the case we may find a combinatorial explosion of word strings . |
| 26 | Quickly taking stock of the atmosphere , Pétain remarked icily to Serrigny : ‘ In these circumstances we shall install ourselves at Souilly , where I hope we may find a little more calm . ’ |
| 27 | This letter outlines how we may assist a client with an acquisition search in the UK . |
| 28 | This example letter outlines how we may assist a client with an acquisition from overseas , involving acquisition search , targeting , approach and completion . |
| 29 | This example letter outlines how we may assist a client with an acquisition , involving acquisition search , targeting , approach and completion , ie a full deal management service . |
| 30 | I feel that although on the modern piano we may lose a few colours , we ultimately gain more : a wider expressive range , increased dynamics , the possibility to suggest a full orchestra , and much greater ability to permit cantabile in the higher region of the instrument . |