Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |
| 2 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 3 | If British Telecom 's catchpenny peripheral services — dial-a-sex-kitten and so on are any yard stick , we may expect special issue stamps to become even more gimmicky and tacky than they ire already , come privatisation . |
| 4 | We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress . |
| 5 | I think , from the way Hans , her agent you know , Hans Kramer , was speaking last night , we may effect some kind of compromise . |
| 6 | We are sometimes scared that , if we tell the other person what we think , we may hurt that person . |
| 7 | We may build active status at work through : |
| 8 | Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right . |
| 9 | We ask God for the help we need to discover what we have in common with our neighbours of other Faiths , so that , with peace among all believers , we may promote universal peace together . |
| 10 | One day we may meet that villain , or the many like him , and have to fight for our very lives . |
| 11 | Lady Laura was insistent : ‘ though we may feel deep pity for them , their trade is not one of blessing to the nation , to our fathers , sons , husbands ; you have to think of that . |
| 12 | We may test this suspicion by reference to various statements concerning the perceived nature of the new Citizenship Education ( though unfortunately because of frequent postponements of its publication date , the National Curriculum Council guidance document on Citizenship as a cross-curricular theme is not available at the time of writing ) . |
| 13 | This is achieved by sound nutrition , adequate exercise , fresh air and sunshine , and above all , by seeking the ways in which we may find inner contentment . |
| 14 | At the same Lime local government is responsible for implementing central government policy and hence we may find mutual dependency between organisations . |
| 15 | This adds up to a very substantial collection , and I hope before too long we may find another set with the Organ and Piano Concertos , along with Prêtre 's recordings of the Gloria and Stabat Mater ( the earlier one with Régine Crespin ) and the almost unknown Sept Responses des Ténèbres , a simply glorious choral and orchestral piece with Prêtre recorded in 1983 and which appeared on a Pathé Marconi LP in 1984 . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) We may define political legitimacy as the quality of ‘ ought Ness ’ that is perceived by the public to inhere in a political regime . |
| 17 | If some studies of style are of doubtful value because of their emphasis on quantitative methods , the opposite tendency to rely entirely on what we may call stylistic intuition has , if anything , been even more prevalent . |
| 18 | Rather , an enlightened dualist will search for some significance , which we may call STYLISTIC VALUE , in a writer 's choice to express his sense in this rather than that way . |
| 19 | If , however , your Account is overdrawn we may require any amount outstanding in excess of one month 's transfer to be repaid . |
| 20 | Our passive exterior may conceal a ferocious anger at having limited our choices , and we may direct this anger into manipulating others . |
| 21 | We may write this equation as unc Equation ( 5 ) is known as a parametric solution : since we have only n — s independent relations we can determine only n — s unknowns ( y ) in terms of the remaining s quantities ( z ) , which may be regarded as arbitrary parameters in the problem . |
| 22 | If ex-post and ex-ante returns are equal , then we may rewrite this equation as follows , where and are the ex-post measures of the standard deviations of the portfolio and market returns . |
| 23 | This may be manipulated by subtracting the risk-free rate from both sides and dividing by the portfolio beta to obtain , and as we may rewrite this equation as , . |
| 24 | Perhaps , too , we may try this beer that your men find so tempting . ’ |
| 25 | The ILP wrote to the Labour party , the TUC and the Co-operative and Communist parties on 13 February 1934 calling for : an immediate consultation between representatives of all sections of the working class so that we may plan common action . |
| 26 | We may have drunk judgmentalism in our mother 's milk , or received a streak of meanness from our father . |
| 27 | We may have another woman prime Minister , but not necessarily another Margaret Thatcher . |
| 28 | At least things are moving now on 2807 and we may have more news in the near future . |
| 29 | For those of us with children , we may have more reason than just our own good health to consider in trying to find out what a healthy diet is . |
| 30 | It would be difficult to give a definitive answer , but we may have some clue . |