Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some societies parents do select the marriage partner for their children , but we have very little say in the partners our children choose , however strongly we may feel on the subject . |
| 2 | Perhaps the simplest of these is the expression , ‘ It is the law that … ’ , which we may find on the lips not only of judges , but of ordinary men living under a legal system , when they identify a given rule of the system … |
| 3 | We are all sensitive creatures , however we may seem on the outside . |
| 4 | Because of the obvious symmetry , we may concentrate on the singularity in region II . |
| 5 | Where their interests overlapped with the Maud Committee they reached similar conclusions , and we may concentrate on the latter as dealing in greater detail with the concerns of this chapter . |
| 6 | We ought to live on an ‘ all-out ’ basis and nothing else . |
| 7 | We ought to focus on the practical and urgent business problems we have of managing our growth and creating a business strategy that will unite us . ’ |
| 8 | He 's not saying we should explode on the slightest provocation . |
| 9 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 10 | Finally , we should comment on the relative abundance of ozone and hydrogen peroxide at Cape Grim . |
| 11 | Does she agree that we should build on the remarkable achievement of the Kazakhstani people who , before the break-up of the Soviet Union , succeeded in closing the main nuclear test site in Kazakhstan ? |
| 12 | ‘ I think we should ring on the doorbell , ’ he said , ‘ and just ask them , politely , what they 're doing with Hasan . |
| 13 | We should err on the side of restraint , rather than of excess . |
| 14 | Perhaps we should concentrate on the potential opportunities and rewards involved in the process of getting there , rather than the doubtful pleasures of its lull achievement . |
| 15 | Given the time and resources available to the project it was agreed that we should concentrate on the topics shown in Figure 1 . |
| 16 | With Samson we have to decide whether we should concentrate on the time of its circulation in the early 1670s or whether we should attempt to determine a precise date of composition . |
| 17 | It is bizarre that we should happen on the ultimate non-stop gamblers bar brawl after such hours of seamless desert desolation . |
| 18 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 19 | The pragmatists thus argue that all knowledge is hypothetical and fallible ; that the meaning of concepts must be rooted in their social context ; that we should focus on the consequences rather than the origins of knowledge ; that all distinctions and boundaries to inquiry are relative to the stage of development of the inquiry ; and that the standards or norms of inquiry are developed as part of the process of inquiry . |
| 20 | First , with talk of deregulation , laissez-faire , greater competition etc , it seems appropriate that we should focus on the role of economic analysis , in particular , the way in which economics can be used to shape law and public policy . |
| 21 | We must knock on the earth for ourselves . |
| 22 | He stressed that we must capitalise on the traditional Scottish capacity for inventiveness and recognise that education itself is always an investment rather than an on-cost . |
| 23 | We must resolve on the forty fifth anniversary to continue in our support . |
| 24 | We must build on the success and continue to press all political parties to develop financial and social policies which ensure that sufficient affordable homes for rent are made available as a matter of policy . |
| 25 | We must build on the experience of regional disputes which shows that there can be a role for international law , the United Nations and , above all , the permanent five of the Security Council . |
| 26 | But before we can even begin to do this constructively , we must agree on the nature — and the terms — of the problem . |
| 27 | Therefore Congress , we must call on the C E C to answer the confusion in plain English , so that I , and I 'm sure many other of our members , can understand in the form of a document circulated to the branches so that we can go forward into the future at least understanding where we fit into our own union . |
| 28 | John Nef , in his Wiles Lectures of 1956 , concluded that , if we seek the origins of our modern quantitative-mindedness , we must concentrate on the last decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 29 | To get at the true explanation we must concentrate on the fact that the bureaucracy 's ‘ particular functioning is not directly determined by its class membership , by the political functioning of those classes and functions from which it originates : it depends on the concrete functioning of the state apparatus , i.e. on the place of the state in the ensemble of a formation and on its complex relations with the various classes and fractions ’ . |
| 30 | but er , I think we must concentrate on the decisive people as well to get these places on |