Example sentences of "[noun] we may [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 As the numbers of socially deprived people , immigrants , and people with AIDS increase , and tuberculosis notifications no longer decline , who can dismiss the risks we may face in Britain in future ?
2 When we go down to the shops we may see an acquaintance on the other side of the road .
3 Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display .
4 Any intuitions we may have about Anderson 's loquacity and the way in which it is affected by the events of the play are thus lent support by the results of tabulating the distribution of long turns .
5 Yet with a quiet , observant and empathetic mind we may begin to see what is before our eyes , before our mind , actually .
6 In England we can date its beginning with the passage , on 22 June 1822 , of the Ill-Treatment of Cattle Act , while in the United States we may point to the passage of anti-cruelty legislation by several of the states , beginning with New York in 1828 .
7 And then the 7am BBC News announcement settled any remaining doubts we may have had .
8 Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes .
9 On the basis of this analogy we may call a ring current a magnetic dipole , or more precisely we should say that sufficiently far away from a ring current the magnetic field appears as if it was created by two closely spaced magnetic charges ( which of course do not exist ) .
10 Since charged particles rarely travel close to the velocity of light we may conclude that the magnetic forces are by orders of magnitude smaller than the electric forces .
11 In practice we may find it difficult to separate the hardware of the data manipulation unit from that of the control unit .
12 This must be equal to the integral over the surface were v is the velocity and — the density ; n is the outward normal to the surface S which enclosed V. By Gauss 's theorem we may write and hence Since this must be true for any volume element we have the equation of continuity The conservation of momentum in continuum mechanics relates the rate of change of the momentum integrated over a volume V to the resultant of the forces on that volume .
13 The separation also resolves the problem of remorse when we tax ourselves about an unphilosophical action we may have taken .
14 Can he say what further action we may take to establish democracy firmly there ?
15 The danger , however , is that by creating a western European defence force we may repeat the errors of old .
16 These are just some of the losses we may experience in life .
17 Using the hypothetical data we may calculate a riskless hedge for the investor :
18 While recognising that conflict is something we bring to a relationship and is not inherent in the substance of the relationship itself , the circumstances of those relationships can nonetheless bring enormous pressure to bear on the responses we may make .
19 If our beliefs have never been challenged or put to the test we may doubt their validity now .
20 He was to add that the French should also be glad to be allied to the Scots , ‘ for from Scotland we may repulse the English , and from thence enter easily into their country , which gives no great odds against them , and thus enables us to curb and check them . ’
21 For example , as parents we may react with undue stress to a teenager who flouts our authority , because we are afraid of losing our self-esteem which is dependent on being able to control our family .
22 I reckon when we get the actual shoes we may find some more .
23 In this approach to the location of education management we may begin to find a new relationship between professionality and management , and to explore in a different way the questions of who does what , where and when in the whole management process .
24 Through this exercise we may obtain an insight into the richness of these styles .
25 It is certainly not if we keep to rigid serial usages , but with only a little modification we may produce harmonic results which suit well enough .
26 In some circumstances we may wish to solve unbalanced problems ( ) .
27 We are readily persuaded to postpone any criticisms we may have of his mode of telling the story , and the next two lines make it clear that the tale is only there to bring out a moral .
28 The ability of mother and child to form a bond with each other is not necessarily restricted to a blood relationship ; it is an urge , a power , a need that may & d other channels through which to operate , so that during our lives we may create more bonds of a similar nature , finding new ‘ mothers ’ or ‘ children ’ to attach ourselves to .
29 Bishops , archdeacons , canons , civil servants , monks : these are the men whose lives we may study in the sources , whom we can meet face to face in their own writings , the educated , privileged clergy .
30 Rollin 's confusion stems from his assumption that because animals have needs we may conclude that they have interests , which , like those of human beings , are owing to the possessor .
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