Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We may negotiate access over that road with you . |
| 2 | While we may request security for your loan , it can be unsecured . |
| 3 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 4 | Whatever the truth , it is to be allowed that in speaking of them as effects in the ordinary way , to the extent we do , we may make use of a conception other than the one we have been examining . |
| 5 | In particular , we may draw attention to the way that the two uses of the notion OLD — ordinary qualification of the entity of the noun phrase , and separative qualification of the relation between entity and descriptive property — are handled in French and in Thai . |
| 6 | If or when there is need to do so , we may represent assignment of equation by a double arrow and we have an example of this type already seen in ( 33 ) above . |
| 7 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 8 | There are many ways in which , in retrospect , we may find fault with the procedures adopted in Nigeria ; lengthy time gaps between conferences and in the production of the reports ; shortcomings in follow up and publicity ( largely due to inadequate funding and staffing of the NERC ) ; failures in articulation of content and approach between subject areas ; an overloading of committees with university academics . |
| 9 | Leaving aside for the moment the problem of determining a norm , we may define deviance as a purely statistical notion : as the difference between the normal frequency of a feature , and its frequency in the text or corpus . |
| 10 | Unless you have agreed that we may disclose information about your personal affairs ( or we are required by law to do so ) , such information will remain confidential to us provided you have not failed to repay us any money properly demanded from you ( see next bullet point b ) . |
| 11 | question , issue three C two and three er we say that in relation to two as a matter of have categorize this as a question of law we say it probably categories a question of fact because if they 're right in there analysis of law and article eighty directive , all it means is , is that there is no market outside and that the restriction is insignificant if that being so one would answer the question , is not capable as a matter of pure law of infringing article eighty five , but in the light of the discussion yesterday afternoon of course when my learned friend comes to apply for this strike out , we may have difficulty in contesting that provision it 's not , not er , a , a major part of our case that we , we would have to re-consider it and , and I did ask your Lordship erm if your Lordship would minded to find otherwise not to block out at least the possibility of application for leave to amend and of course we 'd have to make , have to consider whether we could make a proper case out of it on what we do |
| 12 | ‘ No , but we may have news of them . |
| 13 | We may shun involvement with other people because it threatens our identity , and so we remain aloof . |
| 14 | Pat is also establishing good working relationships with the organising bodies of sport , particularly the CCPR , Regional and National Sports Councils , so that we may take advantage of all the contacts and expertise at their disposal . |
| 15 | Lord Tyrrell , the former diplomat , who became BBFC President in 1935 , notoriously declared that ‘ we may take pride in observing that there is not a single film showing in London today which deals with any of the burning questions of the day . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | And although we may concentrate attention on teachers ' socially regulated selves , " their own descriptions of their feelings about pupils , and their relationships with them and with their colleagues remind us that the regressive , passionate and unruly aspects of human nature are always present in the classroom and may sometimes escape from rational control " ( 1989 : 203 ) . |
| 19 | it , yes it it 's his brief , so I suppose we ought to feed information to him |
| 20 | The ladies concerned I think were very pleased er , erm , I do I think it 's a very good idea , erm , to give a wife 's medal and er , with all the medals , and we ought to provide money for them the amount of waiting about they have to do |
| 21 | I like I 'm sure others , once the issues were published for the E I P , took advice from the Home Secretary and were simply advised that the location that that we should give evidence on locational matters to the E I P and that is what we have done . |
| 22 | We should give thought to cleaning up the environment generally . |
| 23 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
| 24 | We should protect convention in that way , according to conventionalism , even if we think judges should sometimes , in dramatic circumstances , flout convention . |
| 25 | His priority remains external appearance , for ‘ the advancement of Public Taste requires more than this — that we should combine convenience of arrangement with elegance in external appearance ; a point of much consequence to the general aspect of the country ’ . |
| 26 | Given that the net flow of support is normally from older to younger generations , we should expect support in this direction to be more extensive . |
| 27 | Does he agree that we should pay tribute to those civil servants who cycled around , before and after the Minister , to ensure his safe journey ? |
| 28 | We should pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith ( Mr. Soley ) , who produced a proper , comprehensive mortgage rescue package long before the Government considered taking any of their panic measures . |
| 29 | Clearly the popular genres are normally restricted to the more descriptive or ethnographic side of social comment though , bearing Powell in mind , we should pay attention to their more elaborate theoretical constructions . |
| 30 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |