Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 2 | For the moment , however , we may briefly indicate some of the problems which the Ritschlian approach encounters . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind the strength of his views on " mere specialists " , we may surely see more than coincidence in the swiftness with which this final commitment was followed by the conversion to Schopenhauer . |
| 4 | We may even analyse such behaviour in semi-anthropomorphic terms . |
| 5 | We may even do this through becoming ill , working ourselves into the ground or suppressing our own needs in order to care for others . |
| 6 | At this rate we may even have several games in hand . |
| 7 | We may here take each of its main passages in turn . |
| 8 | We may here respond that Quine is overreacting . |
| 9 | We may best illustrate this with out usual example ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 10 | We may also choose another set of axes ( 1 " , 2 " , 3 " ) different from the first and in these axes the vector X has different components . |
| 11 | We may also note that with the reconstruction of the German trade unions after World War II , following their demise under the Nazi regime , the DGB was founded as a unitary organisation to include members of all occupations and political persuasions . |
| 12 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 13 | Dr John Pyle , chair of the Stratospheric Ozone Review Group , which prepared the report commented that : " We may well see this as the beginning of a much more significant ozone loss . |
| 14 | I think w we may well see some kind of shake out . |
| 15 | By definition , we have not had the range of experiences which occur in old age , although we may well have some relevant personal knowledge upon which to draw . |
| 16 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That we may swiftly pierce all defences , as our commanders have conceived we shall — |
| 18 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 19 | We may therefore say that sir conventionally implicates that the addressee is male and socially higher in rank than the speaker ( see Chapter 3 ) |
| 20 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 21 | I 'm hoping to get ashore after lunch for a while , but we may still get that swim . |
| 22 | We may now represent this simplest of linguistic situations as follows ( the minor complication potentially caused by the presence of PLURAL is ignored here ) : Naturally we shall use E as our symbol for the occurrence of an entity , and P for that of a property . |
| 23 | We may now hope that , with the rebirth of our own mythology from music , the abstractions and the shallow optimism that have degraded the German genius for so long will make way for a new strength and joyful seriousness . |
| 24 | The present value of the firm is now dependent on the firm 's results of its past investment policies ( Y t ) and the prospects of its current investment decisions ( I t ) We may now generalize this result so that the present value of the firm is independent of any future dividend decisions . |
| 25 | Although we may now know much more about the chemistry of the human brain , our capacity for thought has probably not changed much over the past five thousand years . |
| 26 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | But we ought perhaps to give more attention to another fact . |
| 28 | Probably more than half of our VDU operator chairs will meet the standard , but we should urgently check all workstation environments using the standard EC/HSE assessment forms . |
| 29 | ‘ We should probably see that again ; bring it back next week . ’ |
| 30 | We should finally note that for reactions involving solids and liquids only the term CAV in equation ( 4 ) is negligible or zero . |