Example sentences of "we may [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 . |