Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We may secretly take pride in our traditions and truth , but we are deficient as long as others are left outside in the cold and unable to share with us the sacrament of the Lord .
2 We may ultimately have people pulling together plans where they assessment is done by a range of people outside social services . ’
3 We must all hope the negotiations succeed and that perhaps we may even see Bobby Fischer on the regular tournament circuit .
4 find their healing rather than bringing the remedy to the person , and we may again find healing in the landscape by tending and restoring old clumps .
5 The intellect merely helps us choose the means by which we may best achieve ends dictated by our instincts .
6 We may also admire people who have skills and strengths which complement our weaknesses .
7 We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) .
8 Whilst it is our preference to generate fees for the provision of professional advice on a transaction we may also generate fees for a brokerage transaction .
9 We may also know heroin users without realising it — a carefully managed habit is not incompatible with a healthy , active life .
10 ‘ Actually , we may just catch Jim Lewis .
11 Because we 're massively speeding up the evolutionary process , we may well create destabilisation within the ecosystem .
12 Then unc permutes with a diagonal matrix and is therefore itself diagonal : unc But ( see ( 3 ) ) is arbitrary to a postmultiplying diagonal matrix ; we may thus write unc and then from ( 5 ) unc In the special case where B , C are symmetric , we may evidently identify Y with X.
13 We may therefore use Choleski 's method ( see 2.4.2 ) to find a lower triangular matrix L such that
14 We may therefore deflate B , omitting its last row and column and continue the iterations with the leading first minor of B. It is found that , after 22 more iterations , working to six decimal places , unc Thus , the eigenvalues of A are , in descending order of modulus , 12.5 , 5.0 , 2.5 , 0 .
15 We may therefore imagine performances centring , as the Dionysiac mysteries did , on his dismemberment by the Titans and his hoped-for rebirth , which would be presaged in the worshippers ' songs of triumph .
16 We may roughly classify problems connected with fishing industries as those which are affected by very quick changes , such as uncertainties of the weather ; or by changes of moderate length , such as the increased demand for fish caused by the scarcity of meat during the year or two following a cattle plague . [ … ]
17 The USSR and the People 's Republic of China had recognised what we may now call North Vietnam since 1950 .
18 This exodus was mainly caused by the anti-Communist attitude of their priests : and most of all by the new premier of what we may now call South Vietnam , Ngo Dinh Diem .
19 Having considered the various modes of experience ( including science and practice ) and the different sorts of knowledge involved in concrete human activity , we may now address Oakeshott 's argument about the emergence of Rationalism in politics .
20 Assuming , we may now substitute equations ( 5A.6 ) and ( 5A.7 ) into ( 5A.4 ) , and hence .
21 We may now substitute Eq .
22 We may now amend Bukharin 's secondary equations in line with the above to read : and .
23 We may then apply Ampère 's law to the path shown in Fig. 3.8 yielding It is a bit of a coincidence that eqns ( 3.71 ) and ( 3.72 ) agree .
24 We may then apply Ampère 's law to the path shown by dotted lines to obtain
25 When we look at what the centre of the political spectrum ( if we may so classify Liberals , SDP and Liberal Democrats ) mean by citizenship and its implications , we discover different emphases in its constituent parts from the Conservative formula .
26 We may never see husband Joe , kids Brian and Melandra , and the other characters who have unwittingly contributed to seal Shirley 's domestic destiny .
27 Hopefully as we improve our business , we may indeed see TV advertising in future years and we hope that we will become as well known as IBM , 3M or ICI . ’
28 We may forever want confidence that we have come to the ultimate facts about some physical process .
29 These , for the most part , are theories about international relations ( hence the small letters ) , although we may occasionally take note of theories about the conduct of the discipline itself ( i.e. theories of International Relations ) .
30 To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things .
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