Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | And then the 7am BBC News announcement settled any remaining doubts we may have had . |
| 5 | Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes . |
| 6 | These are just some of the losses we may experience in life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I reckon when we get the actual shoes we may find some more . |
| 10 | In some circumstances we may wish to solve unbalanced problems ( ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For present purposes we may turn directly to societies in which the most significant relations were already vertically structured . |
| 16 | For analytical purposes we may normalise X so that unc which imply , inter alia , unc Having set out some preliminary considerations , we now state the method . |
| 17 | Denoting the intrinsic energy change by — U we have the equation and for the whole body Now the rate at which work is done by the external forces is The second integral converts by Gauss 's theorem to Now is we assume infinitesimal strains we may write and the second term vanishes in the summations . |
| 18 | As a rule of thumb , with samples of around 1000 individuals we may say that , if the difference in proportions is greater than 0.1 , then an interaction is present , and it is unwise to average the effects . |
| 19 | In some cases we may wish to compare the categories themselves such as the advanced/underdeveloped dichotomy , in order to illuminate any evolutionary aspects of industrial relations . |
| 20 | In a third class of cases we may take the latest condition , the one closest in time to the effect , as the cause . |
| 21 | In some cases we may have no difficulty in finding several groups , but in every case we shall find one ( or two ) . |
| 22 | As further examples of postverbals we may cite : ( 50 ) Lola felt angry ( 51 ) the victim was standing very erect ( 52 ) it was the oldest competitor who emerged victorious As was also true with the adverbals and predicate qualifiers , it is quite easy to distinguish postverbal adjectives from adverbs occupying the same structural position ; in some examples we find a substantial difference of meaning : ( 53 ) Margaret was acting incompetently ( 54 ) Margaret was acting incompetent ( See Ferris , 1983 , though we would no longer seek to explain the data in the way proposed there . ) |
| 23 | There are lots of reasons we may feel worried about this . |
| 24 | Are we to understand that all work , when not alienated , is to provide the same freedom for the creative development of mind and feeling as do those pursuits we may choose to follow when our time is our own ? |
| 25 | Perhaps if we look beyond superficial disagreements we may find that today 's men and women of influence share fundamental beliefs and that these beliefs can inspire a common approach to community care . |
| 26 | In the UPS spectra of some quite complex molecules we may see resolved progressions . |
| 27 | This defect in the simple social structure of primary rules we may call its uncertainty . |
| 28 | At times we may realise that we ‘ know ’ something in our mind that has not come about through reasoning . |
| 29 | Alongside these luxuries we may consider a range of other imports to Kent , especially the numerous Frankish imports such as ornaments and weapons which were buried as grave-goods . |
| 30 | These are some of the feelings we may have to explore if we seek not to be victims of our emotional life . |