Example sentences of "[conj] we [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information , eg when booking a holiday . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Where we should expect to match France and Germany for industrial growth , we are about to fall below the levels of Greece and Portugal ’ . |
| 10 | We might as well take our time and make quite sure where we 'd like to have them . |
| 11 | Where we can hope to gain is on the publicity front . |
| 12 | GUIL : Our names shouted in a certain dawn … a message … a summons … there must have been a moment , at the beginning , where we could have said — no . |
| 13 | He could quite easily have asked to meet me or my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces — with whom he has been corresponding , as he said — at the Ministry of Defence , where we could have discussed the matter in a more suitable environment . |
| 14 | If it was a warm , sunny day we would pack all our belongings into the caravan and then we would head to the beach or we would go swimming in the pool on the park . |
| 15 | So er obviously I did n't know anything about the money owed or we would 've endeavoured to pay it off straight away when we went to the bank er originally when it went when it folded . |
| 16 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 17 | We got here in the nick of time or we would have had the rotten table otherwise . |
| 18 | Or we may live to see the vines ploughed up and turned into orchards as has been happening in other areas . ’ |
| 19 | When searching , we may know where to look or we may have to scan around to find out where to direct our search more intensely . |
| 20 | Or we might hope to define justification in terms of knowledge . |
| 21 | Or we might want to know how cold it is to the nearest °C , in which case we have no choice . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , get your best friend to take you home , ’ said the first constable , ‘ or we might have to take you down to the station for the good of your health . ’ |
| 23 | or we might have to bring this back a bit |
| 24 | God might have annexed colour sensations to the kind of light reaching our eyes in ; quite different way from that which he has done , so that the very same things ( in their real nature ) which are red to us might have been blue , and vice versa , or we might have experienced , quite different range of colours in the same physical situations . |
| 25 | Erm if the if office jobs are appropriate then they 'll be provided or we 'll seek to provide them , erm some jobs will be industrial jobs and no doubt that there will be office jobs . |
| 26 | the scheme will be redundant or we 'll have retired at |
| 27 | ‘ We 'll either be here next year — or we 'll have gone under , ’ he quipped at the awards ceremony in London on September 23 . |
| 28 | So we 'll copy that , or we 'll have to change it to survey manager , this one anyway . |
| 29 | So either we shall have to disallow such a possibility and decree that nothing qualifies as a genuine proposition unless its truth-value is fixed for all time , i.e. that all propositions are what is sometimes called " eternal " propositions , or we shall have to accept that truth-value is not an integral part of the objective propositional content . |
| 30 | We had to stop drinking or we 'd have got nothing done this year , like ! ’ |