Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may want to make useful contacts with others . |
| 2 | ( iv ) There is no absolute consistency of style with a given domain , and therefore , in measuring the overall statistical properties of texts , we may fail to capture significant variations of style . |
| 3 | Disco said ‘ We may have made some mistakes in our business plan when we chose to go for growth . |
| 4 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 5 | If our policies had achieved wider media coverage , we may have achieved greater support , but there is a foundation there on which we intend to build . |
| 6 | We may have to close some roads to traffic and make them pedestrian only . |
| 7 | And the toner actually closes the pores , because we may have opened those pores slightly by using the cleanser , and also , if there is any cleanser left on the skin the toner will remove that as well . |
| 8 | Right , if we want to increase the long run output we may have to reduce short run output . |
| 9 | Some fairways are so narrow , we may have to walk single file , ’ joked one young American visitor on the eve of this 22 nation classic . |
| 10 | We may need to devote more attention to helping the teacher discern their effects and to relate them to the intentions . |
| 11 | We may need to find alternative means achieve some end . |
| 12 | And if your son is n't settling down then we may need to have another look at him , and run some tests on him . |
| 13 | We may need to confront this situation and realise that we can get greater support from people who have similar motivation to our own . |
| 14 | If they do , then we may wish to explore this issue of ideology to see whether socially dominant groups use their power to impose ideas and patterns of behaviour on their subordinates . |
| 15 | However , we can by no means stick slavishly to such a rule , for good harmonic flow needs variety in spacing intervals , and in any case we may wish to avoid smooth harmony and have something pungent , harsh , and bitter . |
| 16 | In some circumstances we may wish to solve unbalanced problems ( ) . |
| 17 | The simple fact remains that , if we can not get agreement , we may consider taking unilateral action in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | We ought to have bought some knitting wool . |
| 19 | We ought to have bought some knitting wool . |
| 20 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 21 | If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments . |
| 22 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 23 | The fact that we have had a nuclear deterrent for a number of years has added materially to our security and I believe that we should continue to sustain that deterrent . |
| 24 | In the long run , we should aim to appoint two field officers to give day-to-day support for branch work . |
| 25 | We should offer to make such approaches ourselves . |
| 26 | Perhaps we should stop castigating individual managers , coaches and players and take a long , hard look at the structure of our sporting institutions . |
| 27 | We should stop drinking German wine and beer and stop eating their sausages . |
| 28 | Perhaps we should consider giving widespread publicity to the Audit Commission 's account of the Government 's failings . |
| 29 | ‘ We should get to know each other better . ’ |
| 30 | I suppose it 's good that we should get to know each other : first . |