Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 2 | Holding a child responsible is not the same as making her responsible ; we may succeed in the former , without her cooperation we can never succeed in the latter . |
| 3 | The statement said that younger Nahda members appeared to have been involved in the February incident " with the agreement of some of the movement 's leadership " , and that Nahda 's membership and activities would therefore be " frozen … pending the decisions which we may take in the near future " . |
| 4 | We may see in the modern confusion surrounding the Portland Vase a tendency , particularly marked in later works of the Claudian period ( AD 41–54 ) , to liken idealised figures to portraits . |
| 5 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 6 | The Lord 's Prayer teaches us that we should forgive in the same measure we have been forgiven . |
| 7 | I , on the other hand , he wrote , have always held that precisely because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in the greatest possible self-created order . |
| 8 | Okay and that sh we should have in the next day or two . |
| 9 | Thus , although SS continues to show the labour supply curve in terms of the after-tax wage , we must draw in the higher schedule SS ' ; to show the supply of labour in terms of the gross or pre-tax wage . |
| 10 | Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity . |
| 11 | But we must live in the real world , as I said earlier . |
| 12 | But I 'm sure we 'll finish in the top six . |
| 13 | No you do n't this is it , we 'll just dump everything , I said to Mark we 'll just dump everything in the back room and we 'll stay in the back room till we 've sorted the front room |
| 14 | So we 'll walk in the general direction of Tamsin . |
| 15 | we 're not eating in the back room , he can get stuffed , we 'll eat in the posh end for a change Jul , like we did last time |
| 16 | I have n't really asked you very many questions so I 'll , I 'll ask you a question which sets us up for a programme we might do in the next series , having discussed the wedding , next the honeymoon ! |
| 17 | But I was determined to get her ready for anything we might meet in the great outdoors . |
| 18 | Can I Can I anticipate what er we might say in the bad taste bit then , did anybody think one was in in bad taste ? |
| 19 | We might proceed in the following way . |
| 20 | I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington ( Mr. Forman ) that by far the most useful thing that we could do in the short run would be to fund a payments union among the commonwealth of independent states so that they could at least have a currency in which to trade with one another . |
| 21 | Its most striking answer in International Relations has been systems theory , which we shall examine in the next chapter . |
| 22 | You should also note , in using hedging and qualifying expressions , that they will affect the overall tone or REGISTER of your essay ( as we shall examine in the next chapter ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I can not guarantee we shall legislate in the next session since one never can — it is always understood that a final decision is taken nearer the Queen 's speech , ’ Mr Lang said |
| 24 | ( It is a story which we shall tell in the following chapter . ) |
| 25 | As we shall show in the later sections , a great deal of the activities of the fans can be understood as symbolic activities in the mode of metonymy . |
| 26 | British imperial and industrial success appeared unlimited , but in fact was already being compromised by long-term processes of economic and political change , which we shall outline in the next two sections . |
| 27 | They favoured unitary authorities for most of England though , as we shall explain in the next chapter , this recommendation was never implemented . |
| 28 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |
| 29 | This is an issue to which we shall return in the final section of this chapter . |
| 30 | Daraprim ( pyrimethamine ) , a very different substance , evolved some years later from research of more general significance , to which we shall return in the next chapter . |