Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may legitimately ask why , given GPs ' professional concern with mental health , this should be the case to a greater extent than with other — frequently lay — referrals . |
| 2 | We may not present quite as many , but we plan to continue to be lively . |
| 3 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 4 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 5 | And we 're looking to , to do similar transactions in the U K , but of course with the lack of , or the reduced competition in the U K we , we may not do quite as well . |
| 6 | If we are drowsy we may not hear either the piccolo or the dog whistle . |
| 7 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |
| 8 | If we do not invest our oil reserves wisely , for the future , we may not get off so lightly next time . |
| 9 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 10 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 11 | We may even have earnestly studied and attempted to evaluate the varying utterance from the sublime to the ridiculous which emanates from a number of sources for our education . |
| 12 | From the debate on this ‘ thesis ’ we may here stand aside . |
| 13 | After all , if we want a representative sample of university students we may already know how they are distributed between departments or faculties and random methods , being based on chance , might now and then produce samples heavily biased towards one faculty . |
| 14 | But we may already point out that an objector who wishes to deny that there is any reality to the notion of assignment as distinct from qualification must pay the high price of asserting that there is no difference between ( 30 ) and ( 31 ) , or between ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) . |
| 15 | If only , thought Hugh , between amusement and anxiety , if only the lady has been gracious enough and considerate enough to keep the lid firmly on that reliquary of hers , we may yet come out of this without scandal . |
| 16 | As a detail of notation , if it seems useful to have a way to distinguish property-meanings from entity-meanings , then we may use round brackets for the former , thus allowing us to replace ( 7 ) by : We may also point out that the physical orientation of the arrowhead in our representations naturally reflects the direction of qualification , not the surface order of the instantiating elements . |
| 17 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 18 | Terry said : ‘ Shirley has a week off in September and we may well go down to Butlin 's . ’ |
| 19 | There is no limit to the wants we can express in language and hence we may well set up problems that are impossible to solve because they require the resolution of contradictions . |
| 20 | If our minds are not actively engaged and challenged by the world in which we live , we may well slip inexorably into the world of day-dream and make-believe . |
| 21 | And if we can learn more about their sensitivity to ultrasonic sounds , we may finally grasp how they can ‘ know ’ that someone is approaching from a great distance . |
| 22 | In the age of the life-support machine , we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days , when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable . |
| 23 | We may sometimes hear merely a fragment of a melody , yet we know immediately what it is , where it comes from . |
| 24 | All these questions become acute , and unless we have a clear understanding of what is at stake we may quickly go under and revert to the low expectations for church life that have perhaps characterised our previous experience . |
| 25 | We may merely set out to determine the main policies in the areas in which we are interested . |
| 26 | We may therefore sum up Robertson 's order in respect of Yugoslavs as follows . |
| 27 | We may therefore proceed directly to the phasor diagram representation of Eqn . |
| 28 | We may perhaps speak here of a discontinuous semantic constituent . |
| 29 | In the meanwhile , we may perhaps see here a reflection of a decline of noble and , possibly , of literary influence on the place accorded to the battle in war , in which it was no longer regarded as the great opportunity for individual acts of courage , but more as the culmination of a military process whose aim was the achievement of a particular political goal . |
| 30 | Furthermore , we may perhaps see in " make smooth , straight " a greater precision than in " prepare " in line A is properly " clear away " , i.e. " remove any obstacles " , which could apply to an already existing road-which might be what is meant by " the way of Yahweh " . |