Example sentences of "we [modal v] have " in BNC.
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1 | We may have no choice but to do so , though I believe that the change has been more damaging than beneficial . |
2 | ‘ Now if that means we have to postpone some of our social ambitions , then we may have to do so . |
3 | We may have to wait until the third one . |
4 | We may have a glimpse of sympathetic magic in ‘ when we came back , late , from the hyacinth garden , / Your arms full , and your hair wet … |
5 | Generally , though we may have the background threat of Gomez 's South American violence or past humiliation ( Maisie Mountjoy brings back the music hall again ) , the late plays are too conventional to take us again immediately from London to Kinkanja . |
6 | At 2 or 3 hours notice we may have to go to Manchester ; the women ca n't do that . |
7 | At the weekends , we are no longer constrained by the timetable of our weekdays and we may have a fuller social life in the evening . |
8 | ‘ We may have to send you out to … another hospital … for some treatment . |
9 | We may have our worries about the different future we see opening up before us — it would be odd if we did not — but surely we must see what is happening at the Brandenburg Gate as a European as well as a German triumph . |
10 | We may have our worries about the different future we see opening up before us — it would be odd if we did not — but surely we must see what is happening at the Brandenburg Gate as a European as well as a German triumph . |
11 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . |
12 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . ’ |
13 | With the government 's membership scheme coming ‘ we may have all-seater stadiums for all-member clubs . |
14 | With the government 's membership scheme coming ‘ we may have all-seater stadiums for all-member clubs . |
15 | We may have problems in the Labour Party but we ai n't that barmy . ’ |
16 | ‘ For the government to survive , we may have to rebuild [ the military ] from the ground up . ’ |
17 | ‘ Since most experts seem to preclude a major upturn in energy prices before the end of the century , we may have to develop a combination of policies and taxes to stimulate the market for improvements in efficiency now as insurance against disruptions from climate change later . ’ |
18 | That means at some stage we may have to see Mrs Yeo . |
19 | ALONG with many other newspapers , we may have given the impression that California was suffering from a five-year drought ( ‘ The other desert war ’ , February 16th ) . |
20 | We may have further suggested that a droplet of rain falling on southern California was as likely as a sincere comment at the Oscars — and that young Californian children would probably never see a cloud in their lifetime . |
21 | ‘ We may have different accents but we are all the same , ’ they asserted . |
22 | Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes . |
23 | We may have the world 's most boring aliens , but we do have corn circles , something no one else has got . |
24 | I think we may have some news soon about Bill and Ricky . |
25 | If not we may have to lock them in their bedrooms . |
26 | ‘ We may have some over the weekend . |
27 | Secondly , if this is not possible , we may have to rely on whatever practical measures we may be able to adopt . |
28 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
29 | Here we may have a glimpse of the future shape of organisation and management theory and practice which is worth on-going consideration in relation to schools . |
30 | In such cases , we may have cited ; collector 's name ( see Appendix ) in italic and date , author(s) and date in normal type for literature records e.g. Harrison ( 1941a ) , see appendix for bibliography , the herbarium code name for voucher specimens . |