Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [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 propose as a specialization of our grounding formula : |
| 5 | This we may now follow in a text of Scaevola . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is even arguable that we should just speak of a clannish ‘ Heraklid aristocracy ’ and not subdivide further . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | that we should actually look at a ce a minimum |
| 11 | We should never enter into a project without trying to get a |
| 12 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | We 'll also focus on a very special display the Falcons put on while here in the States . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And we 've been told that we 'll only get between a nought and one point five percent increase at the most . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I think we could both do with a luxury evening with good food , soft lights and a tranquil background . |
| 19 | And er if we could just go into a little bit about , this was in Hucknall ? |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | ‘ We could easily arrange for a nurse to be here during your absence , ’ Adam suggested . |
| 22 | Now I can see the sense of that , you know , we could probably go to a New York lawyer on a no no win , no pay basis and take action agai an and argue that case , but you know is this what , what really people who 've paid pensions for thirty or forty years should be dealing with , you know . |
| 23 | There were large and small holes and we could only go through a hole once . |
| 24 | IMO we could still do with a Ruddock type figure at the back . |
| 25 | We could certainly do with a rota of people to man the museum and more volunteers to put on it . |
| 26 | In them days we could really go for a man in uniform . |
| 27 | We could hardly wish for a more graphic portrayal of the son who is tied to his domineering , aggressive mother by ties of love , but who has to be a hero in the eyes of the world to prove his masculine worth . |
| 28 | No the , the principle of it is good , we could all do with a bit more muscle building than we have . |
| 29 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 30 | I mean , like Dave said , I mean , alright we could perhaps do with a superstore , but not the . |