Example sentences of "we [modal v] see " in BNC.
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1 | And we may see another reason for the ambiguity in Leonard : Ashkenazi Jews expressed themselves in Yiddish , which was not merely their language ( resting on 16th-century Middle High German and many Slavic loan-words ) but in a particular sense a reflection of their world , their universe . |
2 | We may see it even in political fundamentalism — where the teachings of a reformer are still seen as the crystal clear teachings which are the pure source of revelation , and from which deviation is heresy . |
3 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
4 | When we go down to the shops we may see an acquaintance on the other side of the road . |
5 | I feared in Rome I detected a great change for the worse , but she has stood the journey well , better than might have been expected , and now , if all remains serene , we may see her build up again . ’ |
6 | The markets have already largely discounted this result but we may see shares and the pound slipping a bit further . |
7 | We may see in this encouragement of scholars not only an attempt to improve the status of the realm , but a genuine curiosity for learning on the part of Charles himself . |
8 | We may see here a way of expressing the double motif of God 's transcendence and immanence discussed above . |
9 | This is an interesting development and if the trend continues , we may see the demise of collateral warranties in the not too distant future . |
10 | We may see in the modern confusion surrounding the Portland Vase a tendency , particularly marked in later works of the Claudian period ( AD 41–54 ) , to liken idealised figures to portraits . |
11 | Both these approaches are being actively investigated and one day we may see a revolution in management of Type I diabetes . |
12 | We may see a road accident but we shall never be sprawled out on the tarmacadam like that . |
13 | Scientists have been penetrating areas beyond human senses , and they have developed more and more devices to augment our senses in order that we may see into the heart of matter or reach the ends of the universe . |
14 | Our spiritual eyes need to be opened , that we may see into the spiritual order , and become aware of the constant activities of God . |
15 | Looking backwards over the history of inquiry , from the security of our current views , we may see evidence of the cunning of reason bringing us gradually closer to the approximately true , but from that perspective we can offer descriptions and explanations of what was going on which show , for instance , that hypothesis selection was not ‘ blind ’ . |
16 | We may see an object ( visible in the earlier view ) disappearing , and being replaced by another one — as in a game of ‘ peekaboo ’ . |
17 | We may see one and the same ( rigid ) object moving , perhaps involving a change in its appearance due to rotation . |
18 | Finally , we may see an object moving and changing shape at the same time ( as does a walking mammal ) . |
19 | Then we may see a reversal of the policies whereby the deepest roots of public health misery are often ignored . |
20 | If the section works effectively , we may see the manager promoted and the unofficial task leader formally recognized and promoted to the position of manager . |
21 | Similarly we may see the nutter as a pathetic figure who has to resort to self-humiliation in order to establish an identity for himself . |
22 | We may see this idea reflected in a number of ways . |
23 | In more normal times , however , we may see a second effect of dominant values . |
24 | A problem is a problem in the person concerned , not because we may see it as being such . |
25 | Pulling them together , we may see that in marriage in Britain today , while freedom of choice makes for great potential satisfaction in the marital relationship as such , at the same time it makes for some instability if the satisfactions are not up to expectations . |
26 | This implies that in an operation I(k) we may see I ( ),; but unc will not appear in I(l) operations , except in a self-cancelling form , e.g. we could use I(l) with unc in the ith place , following with I(l) with unc in the jith place , so that the product of the two steps has unit determinant . |
27 | In place of Adorno 's search for an authentic individual productive subject in popular music , we may see glimpses here of new kinds of mass or collective subject . |
28 | We may see then that we chose our reference point at infinity . |
29 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
30 | Nevertheless , we have made a lot of progress in recent years , and as I shall describe , there are some grounds for cautious optimism that we may see a complete theory within the lifetime of some of those reading these pages . |