Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | ‘ Because although we 'll try to outwit Balor , we might have him with us for a goodish while , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Although we 'll have to sell that house . |
| 16 | That would explain why it appears in half the songs , which apparently deal with starvation , AIDS and the end of the world along the way , although we 'll have to take the press release 's word for that . |
| 17 | ‘ Now we 'll be able to get back to normal and replace the plaque , although we 'll have to make sure it 's bolted down so no one does this sort of thing in the future . |
| 18 | All of his slides were chosen for a purpose , and were of high quality , although we would have liked a garden plan . |
| 19 | It 's welcome , although we would have prefered full time jobs , but it 's a step in the right direction . |
| 20 | The Government have no plans to change the present public holiday arrangements , although we shall continue to keep the situation under review . |
| 21 | Although we shall continue to regard ‘ three-angled ’ as a criterial trait of triangle and ‘ female ’ as a criterial trait of mother , it must be conceded that there is a palpable difference in the degree of necessity of these two traits . |
| 22 | It is your inheritance and your birthright , and although we may appear to have taken that from you , we have not really done so . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No , it seems that the drifter will remain for the time being in the form of the original although we will keep working on it . |
| 25 | We support a separate funding council , although we should prefer to see that under a Scottish Parliament . |
| 26 | There is less reason to baulk at the term referent , although a referent is , by definition , something outside language , and although we should prefer to speak of syntactic entities in order to keep in harmony with the assumptions we have been following throughout this text ; however the latter are the linguistic correlates of what are perceived as extra-linguistic referents , and the patterns of intensional relations are exactly the same whether there is an external referent or not . |
| 27 | It is my understanding that as this would be a loan between two national bodies it would not be appropriate to issue an indemnity , although we should have to agree a value with you . |
| 28 | Sir Anthony Meyer : I my right Hon. Friend aware that the very ambitious urban aid programme that was announced today will be warmly welcomed and that there will be special pleasure that Clwyd has not suffered at the hands of south Wales , although we should have liked to see more projects ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Just above , the feature inlay as Mercier paints it is worthy of comment , chiefly because the panel with the semicircular ends is placed very much farther to the left than we would expect to see it . |