Example sentences of "we may [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , we may return to the fundamental difference between the mediation and differentiation theories of acquired distinctiveness — for the former the associations formed during distinctiveness training play a critical role , whereas for the latter these associations are essentially irrelevant . |
| 2 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 3 | There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite . |
| 4 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 5 | We may think of the initial photon as being absorbed , so that the molecule is excited to a ‘ virtual ’ state , whose lifetime is so short that there is effectively immediate re-emission of a photon whose energy may be different from hν by a quantum of vibrational energy . |
| 6 | In the same way , we may think of the ideal encounter of a particle with a molecule as an elastic collision in which no energy is transferred . |
| 7 | Whilst we may learn about the legal principles which regulate our daily lives , both at work and at home , the actual process of ‘ going to law ’ and bringing an action before the courts is not necessarily as simple as one may imagine . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | Our spiritual eyes need to be opened , that we may see into the spiritual order , and become aware of the constant activities of God . |
| 10 | 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 . |