Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this , we may conclude that any process which can send impulses directly to the brain can be used to influence the physical body and the emotions . |
| 2 | And since at least some aspects of deixis make a difference to truth conditions , we may hope that this shift will coincide with the decision to restrict semantics to the truth-conditional aspects of meaning . |
| 3 | Once again we may stress that any attempt to describe syntax by assessing the logical possibilities of combination of the " type " meanings which words and other lexical items may have in the dictionary will simply launch us into the wrong enterprise . |
| 4 | We may infer that this pattern is a residue of some earlier English vowel pattern that has not been well identified or described by historical linguists . |
| 5 | And since Pooh knows what bees look like , we may assume that this observation is a good one : the belief the bees give him ( namely , that they are bees ) will be true . |
| 6 | We may decide that our-own contribution at this stage would be most usefully limited to a comparison between middle-class and working-class groups , and so we decide to do a survey in two such localities . |
| 7 | ‘ If , post-barrage , water flows slow down , we may find that less mud is pulled in and the situation may stabilise . |
| 8 | Because while from the safety of our historical vantage point we may doubt whether this kind of incident was anything more than an isolated occurrence , and while the details leave room to quibble about the gravity of the wounding cases , to commentators at the turn of the century here was a sure sign that something dangerously new was afoot , which had come all-too-terribly alive in the person of the ‘ Hooligan ’ . |
| 9 | In which case we may predict that this craft activity was on a small scale producing no concentrated evidence . |
| 10 | However , we should emphasize that this stalemate is highly unlikely . |
| 11 | We should notice that this view is not just a flight of fancy from the loony left , the pederast lobby or children themselves . |
| 12 | Having reached some understanding of Hobbes 's method in terms of its application in natural philosophy , we should recall that that subject , which deals with ‘ bodies natural ’ , is simply one part of philosophy as such , and not the only part to which the resolutio-compositive method is to be applied . |
| 13 | However , before we discuss the difference between this finding and that of Marslen-Wilson 's demonstration of facilitatory effects of context in auditory word-recognition , we should note that another experiment carried out by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ) showed that some facilitation did occur with words which were very predictable from their context . |
| 14 | Again we should note that this increase in conceptual precision can be achieved , and is achieved in other languages , without recourse to grammatical devices of this kind . |
| 15 | We should note that this analysis involves an element of special pleading . |
| 16 | We should note that this fixing of the deictic centre is particularly appropriate to what Lyons ( 1977 : 637 ) calls |
| 17 | We must show that this legislation is unworkable , that the unemployed are not to blame . |
| 18 | In order to use the algorithm , we must assume that all edge weights are positive . |
| 19 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 20 | We must ensure that that balance exists . |
| 21 | Many dedicated single-handed practitioners remain , and we must ensure that that option remains so that GPs are free to practise how they wish . |
| 22 | We must ensure that each deal is completed to our client 's maximum advantage . |
| 23 | We must ensure that any recycling point or any , any er disposal er points that we have and they may be er recycling points if , if , if , if this proposal is , is actually accepted . |
| 24 | We must know whether this company is insolvent and therefore whether it should continue trading . ’ |
| 25 | We must remember that this collection was put together in late 1955 , when most Jewish thinkers ' minds were somewhere between the atrocities of the Holocaust and the fearfully questionable use of the Bomb . |
| 26 | We must wait until this thing with Bragad is resolved . |
| 27 | Well alright we 'll do that that way |
| 28 | We might think that this change of life would bring joy primarily to the person who is redeemed . |
| 29 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 30 | If we take the optimistic view , we could suggest that any group of wage-earners who managed to secure a wage increase of 60 per cent can not have ended the period to any real degree worse off than they began it . |