Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good quality , additive-free , fresh lean meat is an excellent food , but our fast food philosophy means we may eat a lesser version . |
| 2 | Finally , we may detect a marked tendency to integrate subjects hitherto taught separately , a trend reflecting curriculum practice in Britain but also stemming from a desire to stress the relatedness of learning within a child 's own environment . |
| 3 | At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations . |
| 4 | If we drop a tin can probably nothing will happen ; at the worst we may make a small dent . |
| 5 | Thus we may recognize a general classification of three kinds of melodic phrase : |
| 6 | From these reports , we may identify a general category of the chronically sick : people who replied ‘ yes ’ when asked if they had a long-standing illness , disability or infirmity which limited their activities in any way . |
| 7 | Using elementary operations of this kind , we may construct a canonical form of lambda-matrices , which is diagonal , the elements in the diagonal being functions of |
| 8 | We may choose a professional sports person as our referent and bemoan the fact that our salaries do not compare despite the fact that we may have as much talent in our chosen fields . |
| 9 | If we begin with too cavalier an attitude toward them , we may miss a certain richness in our intellectual heritage and one that had a profound bearing on how the word science was understood , by both practitioners and their public . |
| 10 | Using the hypothetical data we may calculate a riskless hedge for the investor : |
| 11 | If these variations remind us of the history of the Alps , then so much the better : we may find a better balance to the continuing battle between development and conservation . |
| 12 | As before , we may find a suitable initial column such as ( 4 ) . |
| 13 | However , if this is not the case we may find a combinatorial explosion of word strings . |
| 14 | The problems are more urgent now because there is the possibility that we may find a complete unified theory in as little as twenty years . |
| 15 | We may find a common denominator in one particular character who plays central or peripheral parts in seven of her ‘ Empire ’ books . |
| 16 | If we recover more of a text 's historicity , recapture the lost agencies which originally motivated its emergence and come to understand more about the conditions of its emergence , we may find a cultural presence strange and apparently remote from our own . |
| 17 | I feel that although on the modern piano we may lose a few colours , we ultimately gain more : a wider expressive range , increased dynamics , the possibility to suggest a full orchestra , and much greater ability to permit cantabile in the higher region of the instrument . |
| 18 | The Martians were , if we may venture a fanciful interpretation of their character from the gantries , the dry vats , oubliettes and occluded vaults , the forthright aspect of their stairways , gutters and conduits , as of the famous canals themselves , a serious and resolute people , thorough in their undertakings , not given to digression or frivolity . |
| 19 | We may define a social movement , in broad terms , as a collective endeavour to promote or resist change in the society of which it forms part ; l but this statement needs to be qualified in some way if we are to retain a clear distinction between a ‘ movement ’ and a ‘ party ’ . |
| 20 | What do we believe of the connections between such a set , which we may call a causal circumstance , and the effect ? |
| 21 | People will probably go anyway , Sharp adds , ‘ but we may kill a few on the way , and we may get some wet noodles back . ’ |
| 22 | But although we may have a spiritual or mental knowledge of the pregnancy , the actual physical development of the baby in the womb has to lie beyond our conscious control . |
| 23 | ‘ We may have a mild winter , ’ she reminded him . |
| 24 | I do nt think we should get too complacent as we may have a genuine bad run and things are pretty tight in the top 10 at the moment , but then again I did say after the Oldham match that 4 more wins on the trot would see us averaging 2 points a game , which is statistically Championship form . |
| 25 | At the weekends , we are no longer constrained by the timetable of our weekdays and we may have a fuller social life in the evening . |
| 26 | We may have a genetic pre-disposition to cancer , but where or when it appears in our body is determined by a combination of factors . |
| 27 | We may have a theoretical reason for believing that the variable we are studying will require a particular transformation . |
| 28 | Well , we may have a few helpful hints . |
| 29 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 30 | We may follow a similar intuitive process for the limits of the value of purchased puts ( Fig. 7.15 ) . |