Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 2 | These are just some of the losses we may experience in life . |
| 3 | As the numbers of socially deprived people , immigrants , and people with AIDS increase , and tuberculosis notifications no longer decline , who can dismiss the risks we may face in Britain in future ? |
| 4 | We may arrive in sight of the same conclusion , near enough to see the possibility of rooting all valuation in a single principle of awareness , by an approach from the opposite direction . |
| 5 | The old phrase , ‘ all is fair in love and war ’ , suggests how low we may stoop in order to conquer . |
| 6 | Non-monogamy may be less possible for us , and we may stay in relationships longer than we should because we are scared of not being able to find a replacement . |
| 7 | ‘ It was exciting ! ’ we may say in retrospect . |
| 8 | This method of reclaiming the dead , we may note in passing , survives in modern archaeology . |
| 9 | Who 's his solicitor , I think we ought to get in contact with him ? |
| 10 | There 's some sort of standard that we think we ought to have in order to do this thing right and we 're we 're below everybody else , yes . |
| 11 | sustainability , viability , as in a conceptual sense , and I would also like to suggest that in pushing this discussion forward we ought to bear in mind the , how shall I say it , the principles as espoused by the Department of the Environment in their planning policy guidance note three , er and in particular those spelt out in paragraph thirty three . |
| 12 | And ministerial statements have actually indicated that it 's not likely to appear , as a final version , until next year at the earliest , and so it would seem to me that there 's a great deal of thought to be gone into the precise wording of that P P G yet , and to rely on quotes from it wou is , is , is at best er , misleading , and I think we ought to bear in mind something that Mr Curtis mentioned this morning , that in fact the change that happened between draft P P G three and the final version , it is quite possible that the final version of P P G thirteen could be substantially different from the |
| 13 | He said that although " the French did not agree to that issue initially … now we have managed to secure their agreement that we should remain in Eurodif as a shareholder in the company which enriches uranium " . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure that we should talk in terms of any laws helping us to prevent violence in society . |
| 15 | He said that we should travel in pairs — never more than two at a time — so as not to arouse suspicion if we met any Germans or Fascists . |
| 16 | Expand this to encourage involving other adults , and we should feel in tune with the NCC . |
| 17 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 18 | Well , that of course er may be true but er as the Group Captain has has said here in the reduced er spec position which we now face and judgement was taken as to how much we should invest in stocks of reserve drop tanks at this point and the option exists to order more . |
| 19 | I think we should go in character tomorrow , ’ I explained , moving the Amex card out of his reach . |
| 20 | ‘ We should go in force , ’ C'zinsit said . |
| 21 | In other words , we should examine in detail the career mobility patterns within and between corporations , for those who succeed are more likely to have just those qualities which corporate crime requires . |
| 22 | But in agriculture , because the climate , crops and farm sizes are different , we should think in terms of national variations of the MacSharry plan — a national and regional flavour to any reforms . |
| 23 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 24 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 25 | However , we should bear in mind the earlier point about the resolution of the data , since such electromagnetic effects have a very weak effect beyond perhaps 50 m ( Wertheimer and Leeper 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Returning to our starting point ; the albino Oscars , like other albinos , lack pigment , and while they are probably not going to become sunburnt in our tanks , we should bear in mind that their eyes will be highly sensitive to light . |
| 27 | That apart , we should bear in mind that roses vary greatly in their ability to bloom more or less continuously after the first flush . |
| 28 | To imagine what a girl 's prospects actually were , we should bear in mind three by now well-established points about the employment of women in general : by and large women were doing different work from men of similar age and class ; women were concentrated in unskilled and low-paid jobs ; and a majority of women in paid work were young and unmarried . |
| 29 | We should bear in mind , however , that underlying the ‘ colonial ’ chronological argument and the Anglo-Norman argument , there is a more fundamental reason why scholars have been so willing to reject the evidence for [ h ] -loss . |
| 30 | We should bear in mind continually that the whole field is controversial . |