Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are disappointed too , on your behalf , but at least the Hertford offer sounds very interesting , & we shall look forward to hearing more about it . |
| 2 | Indeed foreigners Germans are now anticipating us & we shall learn from them to understand the production of our own country , always excepting the ornithology . ’ |
| 3 | Many of these weaknesses will emerge more clearly in later chapters , where we shall see how powerfully the pendulum has swung away from the position of Liberal Theology in recent generations , at least among the leaders and pioneers of theological thinking . |
| 4 | Thus the difference between prenominal attributive , ordinary predicative , and postnominal attributive adjectives is that they instantiate , respectively , the position of the P in the three intensional structures which , for the moment , we represent as follows : ( 37 ) Note that the structure in ( b ) is equivalent to a sentence , whereas that in ( c ) corresponds to a noun phrase ; this is an issue to which we shall return at the end of this chapter , where we shall propose a slight modification to these representations . |
| 5 | Stewards were appointed to bear the cost of the entertainment and on one occasion Petiver wrote to Dr Sloane about fixing the next Herborising , ‘ and Putney Heath being a place not this year visited , I have determined ye Bowling Green there for ye lecture of Botany , where we shall dine on Tuesday next . ’ |
| 6 | And what is more , I might never ever have to look at German again except on a menu in a restaurant on the Rhine where we might go , like other people do , for a real holiday instead of borrowing mildewed cottages and cardboard holiday-houses from people to whom we than have to be disproportionately grateful . |
| 7 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the most instructive gloss on ‘ externality ’ is to be found where we might expect it , in Pound 's 1916 memoir of the sculptor , Gaudier-Brzeska , where he writes of Gaudier and Lewis and other ‘ vorticists ’ , painters , and sculptors : |
| 9 | Thus , using a plural in a continuation based on the verb + with conditions , where we might expect some sort of strain , does indeed produce a reliably higher number of continuations using both . |
| 10 | But we have noted ( 4.1 ) that creative users of language often overstep these limits to produce original meanings and effects ; and that the limits of the code are uncertain , even in grammar , where we might expect to find them determined by clear cut rules . |
| 11 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 12 | Really we know still know very little about what teachers actually do in the classroom , and it 's all very well standing back in university and saying teachers should do this and should do that , but in order to be able to offer guidance I think we really need to do more research in mixed ability classrooms to discover how teachers are at the moment dealing with the situation and where we might offer them more support , and that 's the direction I 'd like to see research go in , rather than more erm of the grandiose large-scale quantitative studies , which collect lots of figures and statistics — I 'd like to see a lot more studies in actual classrooms looking at actual teachers teaching . |
| 13 | Really we still know very little about what teachers actually do in the classroom and it 's all very well standing back in university and saying teachers should do this and should do that , but in order to be able to offer guidance I think we really need to do more research in mixed ability classrooms to discover how teachers at the moment are dealing with the situation and where we might offer them more support , and that 's the direction I 'd like to see research going ; rather than more of the grandiose large-scale quantitative studies , which collect lots of figures and statistics , I 'd like to see a lot more studies in actual classrooms looking at actual teachers teaching , looking at what they do and how we can improve that . |
| 14 | On the Corniche we asked a traffic policeman in a white booth where we might find a hotel . |
| 15 | But I 've just realised where we might find some of the answers we 're looking for . ’ |
| 16 | Where we might have expected these to vary in the same direction as the specialist team 's , they in fact exhibit a different set of distinctions , particularly in the high rate of service provision and the trend towards maintaining cases as live . |
| 17 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 18 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 19 | Thus where we might add that he killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed , Zande would say he did so because he was bewitched . |
| 20 | This is often a major concern of law , where we might hear claims such as : |
| 21 | I know a little restaurant in a back street not far from here where we 'll do reasonably well . |
| 22 | Then you come back to Frau Huber 's apartment with me where we 'll share the spare room . |
| 23 | That way , if the worst happens an' they fire the house an' make a run fer it , we 'll drive most of 'em back towards the highway , where we 'll have a reception committee waitin' to meet ‘ em ! |
| 24 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Where we may boast of our striving for perfection , Jesus had only humility . |
| 27 | There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information , eg when booking a holiday . |
| 28 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 29 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 30 | So many attempts by Christians to communicate the gospel begin where we would like people to be rather than where they are actually at . |