Example sentences of "[det] [prep] we may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us may compensate for this by driving our cars like dervishes or creating dramas in our personal lives . |
| 2 | Erm , some of us may go to tomorrow and |
| 3 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 4 | Er , we heard yesterday from some of your phone calls , and indeed we heard , and some of us may have seen on the television news on Wednesday evening , the desperate plight that many Iraqi civilians are now in . |
| 5 | Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey ; most of us will have taken part in the census . |
| 6 | The predominant influence of parties in deciding which of their candidates shall win seats is an inescapable fact of political life , however much some of us may deplore it . |
| 7 | Some of us may see in these bloodied simian faces the image of our own hunting ancestors . |
| 8 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |
| 9 | We insist on an area of personal moral sovereignty within which each of us may prefer the interests of family and friends and devote himself to projects that are selfish , however grand . |
| 10 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 11 | I call upon everyone to begin to work to create such an agenda in the coming months , mindful that each of us may have to make some compromises along the way if we are to end with something in which we all can believe . |
| 12 | In conditions of rising population , such as we may assume for most of this period over most of Europe , land is scarce and labour plentiful , and the lords may commonly compel land-hungry peasants to accept their terms . |
| 13 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 14 | It speaks confidently of the existence of a wilderness in Britain which , like the wolf , many of us may have regarded as extinct . |