Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We may thus think of the subordination of women as the result of three different kinds of victimisation. 1 . |
| 2 | We may not agree with the intention of the words as viewed from the poem as a whole , but the words themselves must surely be admired . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | There is no point in denying them , even though we may justifiably quibble about the subjectivity of palaeontologists , the imprecision of the boundaries and the importance of the hidden gaps . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Next time we may well vote for the Scottish National Party , no more NUNGE . |
| 8 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 9 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 10 | In an Assize Sermon delivered at Leicester in 1682 , Thomas Ashenden , rector of Dingley ( Northants ) , even went so far as to accuse the King of being too soft on Dissent : " our present divisions , and our manifold menacing mischiefs " , he argued , " we may chiefly date from the late Toleration " , which " allowances proceed from Royal mercy " , and he claimed that the strength for rebellion had come " from the Breasts of Royal Indulgence " . |
| 11 | We may therefore take as an example of our new dichotomy between the practical and the theoretical the teaching of English . |
| 12 | We may therefore propose as a specialization of our grounding formula : |
| 13 | We may only conjecture about the degree to which these subjective assessments were influenced by prior experience of the school in other contexts , the existence of good or bad relations between the reporter and the staff of the school , and the personal prejudices and preferences of the individual concerned . |
| 14 | In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time . |
| 15 | We may now return to the examples ( 50 ) and ( 51 ) . |
| 16 | This we may now follow in a text of Scaevola . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Remember , we are often drawn to the essential oil we may actually need at the time . |
| 20 | Dashing to and from a busy job , frantically organising family commitments , domestic routines and social life to fit with working lives , we may often crave for the peace and simplicity of a solitary life . |
| 21 | I do n't think that among all possible measures we should immediately talk about the most extreme . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't think that among all possible measures we should immediately talk about the most extreme , ’ the chairman of parliament , Ruslan Khasbulatov , said on the eve of a debate on Mr Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 23 | This is undoubtedly an all European problem , United States , Canada , Japan , everyone else should be involved , er I think we should probably identify with the Soviet 's aid and help , hm , key projects like the conversion of military industry into consumer goods , er , like transport and communications , key areas of the economy where relatively small amounts of investment could produce big returns , and then finally it seems to me we should be extending to the Soviet Union for membership of er , international financial organisations like the world bank and the international monetary fund , whichever in criteria of course for helping countries and for integrating international aid to those countries . |
| 24 | We should also think about the problems of the world as a whole , which cause mass migration in the first place . |
| 25 | As actuaries we are professionally trained to make forward projections so we should also look at the future for our own profession . |
| 26 | Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ We should not joke about the unseen world , ’ said Leonard . |
| 29 | Eden also argued that we should not distinguish between the Soviet government and any other allied government , but his overriding conclusion was that : " It is most important that our own prisoners in Germany and Poland be well cared for and returned as soon as possible . |
| 30 | ‘ We are aware of the local feeling and have come to the view that we should not fight for the additional land requirement , ’ Mr Walker said . |