Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may even look at a team of , say , eight people to establish a ‘ norm ’ for a company — a bit like having to be five feet eight inches tall to get into the police . ’ |
| 2 | We may also refer to a writer like Meiklejohn ( 1909 ) ; his book is an excellent work of its kind , and despite the oft-repeated claims of more recent linguists that previous investigators had seriously neglected syntax , that subject receives no fewer than seventy pages in his treatment ( even when the allocation of words to word-classes is excluded ) . |
| 3 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 4 | We may therefore take as an example of our new dichotomy between the practical and the theoretical the teaching of English . |
| 5 | We may therefore propose as a specialization of our grounding formula : |
| 6 | This we may now follow in a text of Scaevola . |
| 7 | Clearly , though , the use of observation schedules is putting more control on the behaviour of the observer , so we may now turn to a consideration of what happens when we go further along that axis . |
| 8 | The blue-green pillars of Hamelin Pool are living stromatolites and the groups of them standing on the sun-dappled sea-floor are as close as we may ever get to a scene from the world of two thousand million years ago . |
| 9 | Finally , it seems most plausible to suppose that this enforcement operated within very strict limits , so that we should not speak of a general power of enforcement of modus for public purposes . |
| 10 | In the last sentence erm my view is that we should not wait for an application to build on this site . |
| 11 | We should not look for a simple reflection : ‘ a single , fixed mode of exchange ; in reality there are many modes , their character is determined historically , and they are continually renegotiated ’ . |
| 12 | It is even arguable that we should just speak of a clannish ‘ Heraklid aristocracy ’ and not subdivide further . |
| 13 | Before leaving philosophical treatments of indexicals , we should just point to a subject of deep theoretical importance which lies well beyond the scope of this book — namely , the connection of indexical reference to the fundamentals of reference in general . |
| 14 | No , I do n't see any reason why we should n't arrive at a costing based on the costing quoted before . |
| 15 | With an uncertain outlook for nineteen ninety three from our point of view it 's absolutely crucial to get costs in line we had obviously done cost-cutting during the previous two years , but we really needed to be sure that if revenues were not going to increase , we should n't wait for a recovery to bail us out . |
| 16 | that we should actually look at a ce a minimum |
| 17 | We should never enter into a project without trying to get a |
| 18 | I think , I take your point Ivor , and we do n't dissent from it , what we have to guard against , two things , one , that the Committee becomes big and cumbersome , and two , of course , we must n't get into a situation where a regional representative is repre is influencing decisions made elsewhere in the county , that 's the effect of the |
| 19 | ‘ We must n't fall into a trap , Dexter . ’ |
| 20 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 21 | That , that is certainly , you know , it , that can be , and , and it 's something which we 'll probably look at a wee longer term |
| 22 | We 'll also focus on a very special display the Falcons put on while here in the States . |
| 23 | And we 'll actually look in a minute or two at the different aspects of the application , the different layers of the product , and how those communicate . |
| 24 | And we 've been told that we 'll only get between a nought and one point five percent increase at the most . |
| 25 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 26 | I think we could both do with a luxury evening with good food , soft lights and a tranquil background . |
| 27 | And er if we could just go into a little bit about , this was in Hucknall ? |
| 28 | I wonder if we could just finish with a very brief comment from you in a positive sense as to what would be your advice to somebody that 's unemployed ? |
| 29 | ‘ George Bradley came up with this great idea of putting an accordion band together for a record and we could n't think of a name , ’ said Emerald chief George Doherty . |
| 30 | Pity we could n't go for a romp round a canal is n't it ? |