Example sentences of "[adv] we shall [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 2 | ‘ Naturally we shall expect to hold these . |
| 3 | Obediently our subconscious mind will respond , and naturally we shall fail . |
| 4 | We may now represent this simplest of linguistic situations as follows ( the minor complication potentially caused by the presence of PLURAL is ignored here ) : Naturally we shall use E as our symbol for the occurrence of an entity , and P for that of a property . |
| 5 | Who knows how long we shall have to wait ? |
| 6 | Within the past few years there have been developments that give rise to the hope that before too long we shall have a filly consistent quantum theory of gravity , one that will agree with general relativity for macroscopic objects and will , one hopes , be free of the mathematical infinities that have long bedeviled other quantum field theories . |
| 7 | For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ . |
| 8 | Since this formulation of determinism can not help us , perhaps we shall do better to concentrate , as a number of theorists have done , on a different one : the claim that every event has a cause . |
| 9 | Perhaps we shall return to slave cultures like the Greeks of Athena . |
| 10 | Perhaps we shall talk again . |
| 11 | Perhaps we shall renew our acquaintance in Barcelona tonight , where Real Madrid have their first major test under his management . |
| 12 | Perhaps we shall hear more about that once Opposition Members have reflected on the important role of TECs . |
| 13 | Perhaps we shall hear no more about it . |
| 14 | Perhaps we shall see a greater concentration on drift-net fishing for scientific research , as has happened with Japanese ‘ research whaling ’ in Antarctica . |
| 15 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 16 | Obviously we shall have to cancel these subscriptions unless our grant is restored to the previous year 's level . |
| 17 | In doing so we shall return to some of the issues raised above , including the question of class and sex biases in these statistics . |
| 18 | So we shall draw no conclusions yet . |
| 19 | So we shall aim to work through definitions towards a richer appreciation of what literary style is and how it can best be analysed . |
| 20 | So we shall lose our insurance ? |
| 21 | In doing so we shall begin to explore the ways people respond to and cope with high levels of uncertainty and demand , and to open up the question of whether some of these ways are misguided . |
| 22 | So we shall see . |
| 23 | So we shall see hundreds of gangs of idle men , smoking and drinking , and half-building roads that no one needs anyway . ’ |
| 24 | All pupils need to be aware of the richness of experience offered by writing in English from different countries , so that they may be introduced to the ideas and feelings of countries different from their own , and so we shall help the cause of racial tolerance . |
| 25 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 26 | Actually the solution to this minor conundrum is not all that difficult , but it takes us through some steps which are not relevant to our main line of discussion , and so we shall postpone it to an endnote to this chapter ( p. 79 ) . |
| 27 | So we shall postpone consideration of just where the semantics/pragmatics borderline cuts across the field of deixis until 2.3 below . |
| 28 | So we shall use this at our great banquet which I 'll tell you about in a moment when we go round , which is our next event . |
| 29 | By doing so we shall become clearer about the problems of nomic conditionals , and hence their solutions . |
| 30 | Plain text could get us a long way , but words are an imprecise medium , and pictures and other symbolic descriptions often help ; so we shall need a few mathematical ideas and notations . |