Example sentences of "[subord] we may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Where we may boast of our striving for perfection , Jesus had only humility . |
| 4 | There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information , eg when booking a holiday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is your inheritance and your birthright , and although we may appear to have taken that from you , we have not really done so . ’ |
| 7 | When a juggernaut passes , we only hear the rumble down to about 20 hertz , although we may feel lower vibrations . |
| 8 | Although we may perceive these levels as separate , they are in fact interrelated — we can not in reality separate the parts that make up the whole . |
| 9 | Although we may suffer several colds each winter we are not being re-infected with the same virus . |
| 10 | Although we may want to reject Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) specific formulation , it remains possible that other versions of associative theory might be able to explain the findings on context-specificity . |
| 11 | It is considerably harder to characterise the form of exchange at a local level , although we may hypothesise about its nature on the basis of the organisation viewed through alternative forms of evidence . |
| 12 | Although we may claim that we simply publish an objective report , the inference that exceptional evil existed during the occupation of Kuwait will naturally be made by those trying to justify the devastating Allied bombardment of Iraq , now retrospectively . |
| 13 | So , although we may wish that the monster would stop sprouting new heads , it is entertaining to look at some of the blind alleys of the past , most of which were investigated quite seriously at the time . |
| 14 | Although we may find a particularly explicit conceptualization of the autonomous self in certain contemporary societies , this may be only an aspect of the more general separation and autonomy of concepts evident in modernist theory . |
| 15 | Thus , although we may say of individuals that they know this or that proposition , we can only explain this fact if we take into account the network of practices in which they live . |
| 16 | Although we may recognise that , those involved are often not thanked . |
| 17 | But although we may have a spiritual or mental knowledge of the pregnancy , the actual physical development of the baby in the womb has to lie beyond our conscious control . |
| 18 | Notice , however , that although we may have views on the social class distribution of [ ta ; ] deletion ( it can be readily observed to be less common in middle-class Belfast English ) , social class is at this stage an external category . |
| 19 | Although we may disagree about detail , semantic relationships between subjects are reasonably stable and reflect the consensus of opinion concerning their connections . |
| 20 | And although we may concentrate attention on teachers ' socially regulated selves , " their own descriptions of their feelings about pupils , and their relationships with them and with their colleagues remind us that the regressive , passionate and unruly aspects of human nature are always present in the classroom and may sometimes escape from rational control " ( 1989 : 203 ) . |
| 21 | There are more of these signals than we may realise . |
| 22 | Reactions are sometimes excessive and irrational , suggesting that we depend more for our self-confidence on such reliable systems than we may care to realise . |
| 23 | As a result , the blood is deprived of much of the oxygen it needs to feed the body tissues , so we may end up feeling listless or suffer vagueness of thought . |
| 24 | We need an investigator of your reputation , Curb , to seek out the criminal , so we may punish him ’ . |
| 25 | The context makes it clear that the two cousins are of different sexes ; however , the sentence is not zeugmatic , so we may conclude that cousin does not have two senses ‘ male cousin ’ and ‘ female cousin ’ . |
| 26 | In exactly the same sense as we may speak of cuckoo genes having ( phenotypic ) effects on the colour and shape of cuckoo gapes , so we may speak of cuckoo genes having ( extended phenotypic ) effects on host behaviour . |
| 27 | In the simplest possible photoionization event the whole of the photon energy is transferred to the electron , so we may write where hν is the energy of the incident photon , BE is the binding energy of the ejected electron and KE is its kinetic energy . |
| 28 | We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours . |
| 29 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 30 | looks like we may have struck lucky , cross fingered and everything else |