Example sentences of "we [modal v] make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we drop a tin can probably nothing will happen ; at the worst we may make a small dent . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We may make a trip to Glen Nevis next month . |
| 4 | For example , taking the October calls and puts we may make the following division between intrinsic and time values : |
| 5 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 6 | We may make an easy start with the short circuit and a bit more , but do we not then have to include in the circumstance the absence of a burst in a water pipe at the right moment ? |
| 7 | We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements . |
| 8 | And er we ought to make a very definite point of putting our heads together perhaps , what do you think , about early March or something like that . |
| 9 | Erm I think we ought to make a pact not to blame each other if we copy the answers on th kind of thing |
| 10 | But we ought to make the journey as safe as possible — can we ensure that at least beneficial results are more likely to ensue than unfortunate results ? |
| 11 | Perhaps there is a feeling that once more we should make a point of giving thanks for our plentiful water supply . |
| 12 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 13 | We should make a strenuous and united attempt to incorporate in the management of our own institutions some of the features which have given the American schools the high character they enjoy . |
| 14 | I think we should make a serious effort to get some progress on this thing . ’ |
| 15 | " So we should make a start now . |
| 16 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |
| 17 | I think we should make a phone call to the constituency office of this man and ask them what they think of their er representative . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
| 19 | Right well erm I I believe er that we should make every effort to preserve marriages erm and thinking especially of the suffering that 's involved fm for children . |
| 20 | We should make no mistake about the political nature of these developments , but a horrified throwing in of the towel is no response on the part of those who would manage the service in the interests of pupils . |
| 21 | We should make an end to it , Johnny . |
| 22 | Firstly , we should make the point that crime does not have to be intentional . |
| 23 | We should make the point that the violence we have seen on film ( from films refused a certificate , or cut before the film could be certified ) far exceeds in nastiness anything likely to be seen on television . |
| 24 | ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs . |
| 25 | A developing industry in South Shropshire is tourism , and the County Council is concerned that we should make the most of it . |
| 26 | ‘ We should make the human eat it , ’ said one of them . |
| 27 | I really do feel that erm it 's a success that should be , it should be , we should make the most of it , we should public it , publicise it , erm , wherever we can . |
| 28 | Then the next step was very clear — that we should make the next molecule , which was rather more complicated , and look for that . |
| 29 | I do n't want him to lose all sense of proportion ; we must make a five . |
| 30 | In another analogy , our mind can be thought of as a huge tapestry in which the many episodes of life were originally isolated and there was no relationship between the parts ; but at last we must make a unified scene of our whole life . |