Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we certainly do not wish to get diverted into a consideration of the nominal patterns of English , we may mention that even in a case like : ( 6 ) Claudia is a bus-driver we have no doubt that the relation is still one of equation . |
| 2 | We may assume that very often they exploited ignorance and helplessness , though the extremes of contract labour and debt serfdom were probably un-common in this period , except among the Indians and Chinese shipped abroad for plantation work . |
| 3 | Lastly , we may notice that even a wrongful possession , if continued for a certain length of time , matures into what may be , for practical purposes , indistinguishable from ownership . |
| 4 | First , we may notice that almost half the concrete nouns refer to general topographical features which , as it were , divide the field of vision into geographical areas and points of focus : domain , ocean , islets , sea , shore , sky , river , earth , cloud , guy , etc . |
| 5 | Perhaps if we look beyond superficial disagreements we may find that today 's men and women of influence share fundamental beliefs and that these beliefs can inspire a common approach to community care . |
| 6 | Similarly , we may say that merely verbal errors can be corrected in standard ways . |
| 7 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 8 | In reply to this we may claim that only by considering unrealized possibilities can we define the nature of a writer 's achievement . |
| 9 | But people are much more likely — and we should stress that only the lunatic fringe is involved — to believe it necessary that those they perceive as only minimally inferior to themselves should be annihilated . |
| 10 | We should remember that neither Marx nor Engels , his co-author , proposed a theory of crime ; and it has been later social theorists working within a Marxist framework who have developed a Marxist theory of crime . |
| 11 | We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs . |
| 12 | Mr Mayor on on a point of order Mr Mayor er standing order sixty two refers explicitly to community charge or the poll tax , I think that before we move into this debate we should amend that so that it does refer to the council tax which is what we will be debating . |
| 13 | On the basis of this analogy we may call a ring current a magnetic dipole , or more precisely we should say that sufficiently far away from a ring current the magnetic field appears as if it was created by two closely spaced magnetic charges ( which of course do not exist ) . |
| 14 | Therefore , before embarking on a policy of immediate angioplasty for patients with failed thrombolysis , we must recognise that even in centres with extensive experience involving angioplasty , there is still a substantial risk of mortality and that opening the vessel may not improve short-term mortality . |
| 15 | Most importantly , however , we must recognise that neither the individualistic man nor the collectivist man of the philosophers is truly Christian . |
| 16 | When we are talking about the end of privilege and we are talking about the future and training , we must remember that over half the population are hard done by . |
| 17 | When Charles heard this news , and we must remember that even the fastest military courier might take weeks to bring such a message , he returned to Saxony with astonishing speed , taking the Saxons by surprise . |
| 18 | But I 'm sure we 'll man we 'll manage that okay . |
| 19 | So I said Bill we 'll tape that so if there 's owt on |
| 20 | My concern is that you may , in b fact find yourself in a situation where you 're cementing yourself in to residential and institutional care at the expense of domiciliary care , and we 'll explain that later to you , er , as we go in . |
| 21 | Look , for the sake of argument , we 'll say that however much good you tried to do in society , in fact you 'd never do any good . |
| 22 | So alright , for the sake of again discussion , we 'll say that probably about another thousand might come forward . |
| 23 | Well we 'll try that once more and then we 'll let you go . |
| 24 | Given that usefulness was rated on an eleven-point scale ( 0 to 10 ) we might expect that relatively few would rate television and the press exactly equal . |
| 25 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 26 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 27 | Therefore , we could spotlight that here was a writer standing up for his rights . ’ |
| 28 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 29 | Er we would say that as , that as far as pension funds are concerned , stock lending in that way should be prohibited and the puerilely ca carrying on that er is that er it should be any account for a pension fund should carry the names of pension funds and any transactions involved with pension fund money whether it should be a duty of financial institutions to make sure that any account they were paying money into was a pension fund account . |
| 30 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |