Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The context makes it clear that the two cousins are of different sexes ; however , the sentence is not zeugmatic , so we may conclude that cousin does not have two senses ‘ male cousin ’ and ‘ female cousin ’ . |
| 2 | We may conclude that violence is such a wide term that we need a typology , each item of which may have its own consequences and causes and so be best dealt with by different interventions . |
| 3 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 4 | Taking this into account , we may suggest that English come glosses as " movement towards either the location of the speaker , or towards the location of the addressee , at CT " . |
| 5 | When pressed on this , one member of the team assured us that schools were by no means excluded from consideration on these grounds , but we may speculate that members ' own positions regarding comprehensive reorganisation will have played some part . |
| 6 | We may speculate that GPs may become less willing to maintain the very elderly on their lists when they have to provide care within a specified cash-limited budget . |
| 7 | Among many other activities of other fellows we may record that Professor Anna Davies gave the Carl Newell Jackson Classical Lectures at Harvard University , that Barbara Harvey has become a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts , and Hilary Ockendon a deputy director on OCIAM , the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . |
| 8 | Only John took the ‘ poorter 's oath ’ necessary for those who wanted to establish a business , and from this we may surmise that James Champneys lived with John and Jane and that the business was solely in John 's name . |
| 9 | We may infer that Nietzsche , although now somewhat distanced from the detail of Schopenhauer 's doctrines , had shortened the distance under the stimulus of Wagner 's interest in the philosophy of music . |
| 10 | In the example of ICI the ratio was 9.8 and so we may assume that investors were willing to pay 9.8p for 1p of earnings . |
| 11 | we may assume that households will move so as , in effect , to subscribe to the clubs ( local governments ) whose policies most closely match their own preferences . |
| 12 | In Barat et Haimet the sexual innuendo of Barat approaching Marie 's bed in the dark , and successfully imitating her husband , Travers , is difficult to miss , and since we may know that bacon , the term generally used for the meat that is stolen and stolen back over and over again , can also be used of a girl 's thighs , there is a strong suggestion that the actions are really a sexual allegory : is it Marie that the three men are trying to appropriate ? |
| 13 | We may know that authors work within determinate social and cultural conditions , but we still emphasize the fact of individual production . |
| 14 | Similarly , we may find that arms and faces are raised , or that kneeling is an appropriate response in the congregation . |
| 15 | But if not , we may find that Britain , which entered the war arm-in-arm with the US , will leave it arm- in-arm with the Europeans . |
| 16 | Similarly , we may argue that Campbell 's political strategy is founded in a view of the realities of international relations between states which does not , for example , reflect the fact that the usual benefits of legal process are not immediately obvious to individual states , particularly where nuclear weapons are concerned . |
| 17 | In the light of what we in our omniscience now know of Falkenhayn 's intentions , and of the hideous tragedy that was to ensue at Verdun , we may say that France should not have decided to hold the city at all costs . |
| 18 | We may say that thinking is essentially the activity of operating with signs . |
| 19 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 20 | Also in January 1950 , Sukarno paid a state visit to India which was returned by Nehru in June : in a typically ruminative speech ( so different from Sukarno 's declamatory style ) Nehru told his audience , Politicians are accustomed to making this kind of speech on a foreign tour , but we may believe that Nehru , with his almost mystical sense of Asian-ness , meant every word . |
| 21 | We may suspect that Polybius ' contemporary , the Stoic philosopher Panaetius of Rhodes , did not disagree on this . |
| 22 | First , we may note that consumption plans are determined by the present value of lump-sum transfers ( ) . |
| 23 | We may note that Lieberich also spoke again at the RI , this time on the real and the ideal in portraiture , in March 1875 ; by then he had both an MD and MRCS after his name . |
| 24 | We may assert that people are essentially good and born in a ‘ state of grace ’ because we need to convince ourselves of these facts . |
| 25 | We may doubt that Beerbohm had the acumen or the catholicity to respond to this provocation as conclusively as he should . |
| 26 | We may doubt that Siegel 's is a complete theory . |
| 27 | When we include uncertainty , er , we ought to acknowledge that farmers may behave not as profit , profit maximizers erm , but as profit satisfiers , and that 's reflected in their , in their risk-aversion . |
| 28 | In assisting a client in defining or refining its acquisition criteria , we should ensure that consideration is given to the following parameters : — |
| 29 | Obviously a longer , longer lead in on that , erm , and , and the county would , clearly need to put some funding into the development to ensure that those er , those satellite businesses operate , and only when you fund those out of the rural economic development 's initiative , but it seems to me to be important that we should ensure that businesses operating in the rural parts of the county have equal access to the facilities of business link and business advice . |
| 30 | Women work slightly fewer hours than men on average , even when we are only comparing fulltime workers , so we should expect that women would earn less than men . |