Example sentences of "we may [adv] ask " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may legitimately ask why , given GPs ' professional concern with mental health , this should be the case to a greater extent than with other — frequently lay — referrals . |
| 2 | Coercion may well be an inherent part of the metaphoric process , but we may nevertheless ask whether it might not be possible to imagine a different type of metaphor , one that was truly interactive in a positive sense . |
| 3 | We may not ask for help by weeping , but our bodies may become helpless so that we have to be helped . |
| 4 | In addition to the need for identifying appropriate bench-marks and a suitable framework of analysis , we may also ask about the rationale for engaging in work within the field of comparative industrial relations . |
| 5 | We may also ask the French police for help in tracing Madame V. But it 's a tall order . |
| 6 | We may well ask : where shall I begin in teaching a brand new congregation ? |
| 7 | So we may well ask : can there be morality without religion ? |
| 8 | In this context we may well ask whether we are not living in an age when God is judging our Western civilisation — whether the inflation of the Western world is a judgment on materialism , or the rising unemployment a judgment on militant trade unionism or the crisis of capitalism a judgment on the secular humanism of our age . |
| 9 | ( What hand or eye , we may well ask , could afford to gestate such a thing for the six to nine months Shakespeare usually took to write a play ? |
| 10 | In reading line A we may well ask , What , precisely , are the heavens like that God stretches out ? |
| 11 | If God 's overall strategy in sending us his Spirit is to equip the Church for mission , and bring people into the messianic kingdom , the sphere of salvation — we may well ask what he does when he has got them there ? |
| 12 | When such replication and variation is found we may rightly ask , what were the factors controlling the results ? |
| 13 | The third again focuses directly upon the child but we may sometimes ask ourselves whether the dissonance between child and parents , or child and society at large , is mutual rather than child-centred . |
| 14 | We may then ask whether such a tutorial , perhaps taking place between angels with no past or future , summoned into existence fur just this purpose , would be a good thing , and if so , how good ? |