Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We may do the odd Christmas special , but as far as series go , this is it , ’ says Harry , who does n't believe in letting new ideas develop into a formula . |
2 | Therefore we may classify the various types of expenditure as in Figure 10.2 . |
3 | We may show the same kind of symptom but with different degrees of severity or persistence . |
4 | Good quality , additive-free , fresh lean meat is an excellent food , but our fast food philosophy means we may eat a lesser version . |
5 | Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea . |
6 | If you pay us an extra premium before you go abroad we may extend the full cover of your policy to include a country outside the territorial limits and we will give you an International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) . |
7 | If you pay us an extra premium before you go abroad we may extend the full cover of your policy to include a country outside the territorial limits and we will give you an International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) . |
8 | If you pay us an extra premium before you go abroad we may extend the full cover of your policy to include a country outside the territorial limits and we will give you an International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) . |
9 | If you pay us an extra premium before you go abroad we may extend the full cover of your policy to include a country outside the territorial limits and we will give you an International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) . |
10 | Finally , we may detect a marked tendency to integrate subjects hitherto taught separately , a trend reflecting curriculum practice in Britain but also stemming from a desire to stress the relatedness of learning within a child 's own environment . |
11 | At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations . |
12 | If we drop a tin can probably nothing will happen ; at the worst we may make a small dent . |
13 | For example , taking the October calls and puts we may make the following division between intrinsic and time values : |
14 | We may make an easy start with the short circuit and a bit more , but do we not then have to include in the circumstance the absence of a burst in a water pipe at the right moment ? |
15 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
16 | Thus we may recognize a general classification of three kinds of melodic phrase : |
17 | From these reports , we may identify a general category of the chronically sick : people who replied ‘ yes ’ when asked if they had a long-standing illness , disability or infirmity which limited their activities in any way . |
18 | We may face the black night together for a time . |
19 | Using elementary operations of this kind , we may construct a canonical form of lambda-matrices , which is diagonal , the elements in the diagonal being functions of |
20 | There is a great demand from universities , polytechnics , further education colleges and sixth form colleges to implement the reforms as quickly as possible so that we may avoid the damaging effect on morale that delays and uncertainties could cause . |
21 | It is agreed that in the case of goods we may exercise the aforesaid rights of rejection notwithstanding any provision contained in s 11 or 35 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 . |
22 | We may choose a professional sports person as our referent and bemoan the fact that our salaries do not compare despite the fact that we may have as much talent in our chosen fields . |
23 | To conclude , we may place the three notions of saliency in an ordered relation as follows : Fig2.1 literary psychological statistical RELEVANCE----------------PROMINENCE------------DEVIANCE ( foregrounding ) We interpret the arrow in " X — Y " to mean " all instances of X are instances of Y " . " |
24 | We may lull the real culprit into a sense of false security . ’ |
25 | If we begin with too cavalier an attitude toward them , we may miss a certain richness in our intellectual heritage and one that had a profound bearing on how the word science was understood , by both practitioners and their public . |
26 | On the demand side , we may treat the two goods as corresponding to investment and consumption goods ( identical in production ) . |
27 | Compare what we take to be the true causal circumstance for last night , which we may label the solar conditions . |
28 | In certain cases , we may advance the total cost of the car , but it is more likely that we will want you to make a contribution . |
29 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
30 | We may distinguish the following cases : |