Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may observe in the future a continued trend in the use of sub-contractors , consultants , and other external agencies , thus reducing the core size of currently large firms . |
| 2 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 3 | Holding a child responsible is not the same as making her responsible ; we may succeed in the former , without her cooperation we can never succeed in the latter . |
| 4 | Is it not a matter of great rejoicing , wherever we may sit in the House , that throughout the past 40 years , which have seen such momentous changes as the peaceful transition from empire to Commonwealth , the ending of the cold war and the coming together of former enemies in the European Community , Her Majesty has presided over this nation unfailingly , with a dignity and devotion to duty for which we are all greatly thankful ? |
| 5 | Bishops , archdeacons , canons , civil servants , monks : these are the men whose lives we may study in the sources , whom we can meet face to face in their own writings , the educated , privileged clergy . |
| 6 | ‘ Always I have let my horn cry at setting forth , and though thereafter we may walk in the shadows , 1 will not go forth as a thief in the night . ’ |
| 7 | We may live in a free country but you do n't feel free . |
| 8 | We are perfectly capable of breaking rules we believe in ( for , example , where conformity fails adequately to satisfy our other needs ) and we may comply in the absence of belief ( where the fear of the consequences of non-compliance is strong ) . |
| 9 | We do this because we fear that the other language may not contain the sophisticated concepts we may need in the communication . |
| 10 | The statement said that younger Nahda members appeared to have been involved in the February incident " with the agreement of some of the movement 's leadership " , and that Nahda 's membership and activities would therefore be " frozen … pending the decisions which we may take in the near future " . |
| 11 | The BHA plan was not in place to meet the deadline , but it 's something we may consider in the future . ’ |
| 12 | We may see in the modern confusion surrounding the Portland Vase a tendency , particularly marked in later works of the Claudian period ( AD 41–54 ) , to liken idealised figures to portraits . |
| 13 | Everyone feels we should react in a very strong way to these remarks . ’ |
| 14 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 15 | We should invest in the technology needed to make these images accessible and usable . |
| 16 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We should meet in a couple of days ’ time . |
| 18 | ‘ We should start in the engine room , ’ Nell suggested , shivering , ‘ work up through the crew 's quarters , and then into the complex . ’ |
| 19 | The Lord 's Prayer teaches us that we should forgive in the same measure we have been forgiven . |
| 20 | Perhaps , as Mister C might say , we should trust in the power of the rhythm and keep the faith . |
| 21 | Your belief , as I understand it , is that we should accept not knowing what the future will be like and that we should trust in the abilities of ourselves , and of everyone else , to be surprised by what happenS , to be changed by it , and to be able to react in new ways that at present we do not know ? |
| 22 | I , on the other hand , he wrote , have always held that precisely because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in the greatest possible self-created order . |
| 23 | That is not to say , however , that we should collude in a denial of the phenomenon . |
| 24 | Such representations will be considered as quickly as possible in deciding whether we should call in the application . |
| 25 | The criteria most commonly used to establish how many people we should have in a sample are such characteristics as age , gender , marital status and socio-economic status , although various other criteria may be used as appropriate . |
| 26 | Okay and that sh we should have in the next day or two . |
| 27 | Thus , although SS continues to show the labour supply curve in terms of the after-tax wage , we must draw in the higher schedule SS ' ; to show the supply of labour in terms of the gross or pre-tax wage . |
| 28 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 29 | We must go in the shop in the Pinge to buy something for my bunny . |
| 30 | We must build in the kind of rebate system that the hon. Member for South Dorset ( Mr. Bruce ) tempted me to describe — a rebate system which concentrates on people 's ability to pay and which is not concerned with an artificial concept of status . |