Example sentences of "we [modal v] try " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know . |
| 2 | We may try to explain them by pointing to the place they occupy in the larger narrative . |
| 3 | In Europe and America we may try to keep its goods out with tariffs and quotas , but Hong Kong does not retaliate . |
| 4 | We may try to assist the pregnancy by following a good diet and receiving medical care , but we can not make the baby grow , any more than we can manufacture the growth of a plant . |
| 5 | While we can not discuss these very fully , we may try to sketch some of the main issues raised by each group . |
| 6 | For example , we may try to explain an observed phenomenon well known to social workers , such as why children enter care . |
| 7 | The dream ( on which we may try hard to impose a narrative structure , to make sense of it ) is unlike much fantasy in that it often does n't , of itself , contain any such structure , and the ‘ story ’ , if it tells one , may be deeply unintelligible to us . |
| 8 | We all know that , however much we may try to deter it , death is the only certainty . |
| 9 | If our smile does not receive a response we may try a more straightforward communication — ‘ hello Jill , it 's good to see you again . ’ |
| 10 | We may try , as has been done in the past , to arm prosecutors and judges with better procedures for discovering police mistakes . |
| 11 | Perhaps , too , we may try this beer that your men find so tempting . ’ |
| 12 | We may try to re-introduce them . |
| 13 | ‘ I think we should try and find you something tomorrow , though . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps we should try it . ’ |
| 15 | My own feeling in 1981 was that we should try to achieve something better and that just muddling through was not enough . |
| 16 | We should try to lay the groundwork for another novel this week — you agree ? ’ |
| 17 | Rather than defend the arts on the grounds that they are a branch of the sciences and therefore useful , I believe we should try to start again , attempting to lay on one side both the crude criterion of utility and the assumed category distinction between science and arts , itself in fact equally crude . |
| 18 | We need to modify the way chickens are kept so that this is something which at least is extremely rare ; we should try to prevent it completely . |
| 19 | Perhaps now that he is dead we should try to make amends . |
| 20 | The strategic considerations tell us that we should try to find processes that have simple effects . |
| 21 | Obviously it 's right that we should try and persuade the German government to delay matters as much as possible . |
| 22 | This is the situation their digestive system has evolved to cope with , and we should try to approximate this in the aquarium if possible . |
| 23 | Secondly , just because a few old vegetables have survived so long , it does n't mean we should try and resurrect all the others . |
| 24 | Although it is actually possible to regress a patient to babyhood and even to the mother 's womb , I felt that perhaps in Maxine 's case we should try past-life regression ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 25 | It is a habit we should try to curb . |
| 26 | That aside , we should try to be happy with the body we have . |
| 27 | We should try to be happy in everything we do . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , but I believe we should try kindness first . ’ |
| 29 | Then we decided during one of my hospital visits that we should try again . |
| 30 | I do not think either that we can make sense of the Devil in the language of contemporary philosophy or science ; on the other hand neither do I believe that we should try and invent a modern mythology that makes the Devil more credible and accessible . |