Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John has found much to do which will not require to be again done in N.S.W. I still hope we may not exceed two years in our absence and I think John is as anxious as myself on the subject . |
| 2 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 3 | We may not see this place again for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There are times when we may not find each other attractive . ’ |
| 5 | I mean we may not like heavy lorries thundering along , whereas we do like ambulances , and computer use is precisely the same . |
| 6 | there is an issue and clearly if we are not in the sixteen double O four six eight O seven business we are going to lose share , we may not lose total volume , I am confused about that , but do n't try and sort it out now , but those are the issues that need to be tackled , and you need to produce between you some sort of projection paper which lays out the way that you see this bit of the steering business going in the future , and recommends what we should be doing , and what the volumes are to support that , and what the volumes are likely to be . |
| 7 | Just to kind of get a feel of that importance , erm let's think about some categories of communication which we may not use verbal channels for very much , okay ? |
| 8 | We may not have many estate agents and delis in Tottenham , but I like it here . |
| 9 | Cos we may not have sufficient information . |
| 10 | Well , we may not have enough time for that , so erm , let's imagine that you 're a sales director , and , now this is more difficult . |
| 11 | If Andropov is snubbed , and his overtures dismissed , we may not have another opportunity , even in the lifetime of the youngest among us . |
| 12 | To suppose , as Levi-Strauss and others have done , that rules about exogamy " those we may not marry " and rules about incest — " those with whom we may not have sexual intercourse " — directly match up , so that one kind of rule can serve as an explanation for the other , is an ethnographic mistake . |
| 13 | We may even analyse such behaviour in semi-anthropomorphic terms . |
| 14 | At this rate we may even have several games in hand . |
| 15 | Having already considered major or lexical word classes , we may here consider minor word classes ( " function words " ) : prepositions , conjunctions , pronouns , determiners , auxiliaries , interjections . |
| 16 | We may here respond that Quine is overreacting . |
| 17 | Despite all the theoretical and intuitive objections to a Martian origin — the uncertainties of the evidence and difficulties of proof — excitement is mounting at the possibility that , without waiting for a mission to return samples from Mars , we may already have Martian samples at hand . |
| 18 | We may also choose another set of axes ( 1 " , 2 " , 3 " ) different from the first and in these axes the vector X has different components . |
| 19 | We may also collect factual information on the ability and attitude of individual pupils and on their background in the subject concerned ; this last is of importance because the level of demand on pupils can only be judged in the knowledge of how far the material concerned is new to them and of their record of success or failure with it in the past . |
| 20 | We may also have further instructions to manipulate the index register or registers . |
| 21 | We may also discern close similarities between Hayek and Oakeshott on law and government . |
| 22 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 23 | I think w we may well see some kind of shake out . |
| 24 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That we may swiftly pierce all defences , as our commanders have conceived we shall — |
| 26 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 27 | We may therefore say that sir conventionally implicates that the addressee is male and socially higher in rank than the speaker ( see Chapter 3 ) |
| 28 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 29 | I 'm hoping to get ashore after lunch for a while , but we may still get that swim . |
| 30 | The present value of the firm is now dependent on the firm 's results of its past investment policies ( Y t ) and the prospects of its current investment decisions ( I t ) We may now generalize this result so that the present value of the firm is independent of any future dividend decisions . |