Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we may return to that in a moment |
| 2 | For example , as parents we may react with undue stress to a teenager who flouts our authority , because we are afraid of losing our self-esteem which is dependent on being able to control our family . |
| 3 | The cost is exorbitant and the Government should take this opportunity to tell that to local authorities , especially in relation to students , although there are other categories to which we may refer in other clauses and amendments . |
| 4 | At present we 're limited by the powers available under the Trustee Investment Acts nineteen sixty-one , this sets out the amounts which we may invest in narrow and wide ranges of investment . |
| 5 | Whatever we may make of this , it is interesting to observe that Professor Hartman of New York has established a link between those who suffer from this nocturnal disposition and a high level of creativity . |
| 6 | Where there are definite intuitions about which elements belong at a given level , we may speak of substantive levels . |
| 7 | We may contrast with this the phrase semantic components , where the two interpretations are virtually indistinguishable ; it will be seen that this phrase will always come to the same thing in practical terms , whether we regard the components as being semantic , with ascriptive use of the adjective , or as components connected with semantics , taking the associative interpretation . |
| 8 | LADY DAVERS : Child , prithee do us the favour of taking a turn or two across the room that we may arrive at some degree of certainty whether or no thou art the identical little Pammy formerly so famous for thy tarts and cheesecakes . |
| 9 | This argument invites us to ignore the relevance of any distinctions which we may draw between subnormal human beings and other animals . |
| 10 | We can see then , that as conscious subjects , we may draw upon common sense as explanation , and that there is a struggle for the definition of this vis-a-vis the State . |
| 11 | Naturalism as an aesthetic may work as a tool of catharsis — we may suffer with those we see suffering — but it does not illuminate methods for action after the catharsis . |
| 12 | We may infer from these two cases that Anselm set no great store by an extensive knowledge of Canon Law , and that the test of valid authority was agreement with the voice of Christ . |
| 13 | In conditions of rising population , such as we may assume for most of this period over most of Europe , land is scarce and labour plentiful , and the lords may commonly compel land-hungry peasants to accept their terms . |
| 14 | Once we are through the mountains and out on to the plain of the Moistr ’ River we may split into smaller groups , but I will decide who will be given individual commands when that arises . ’ |
| 15 | The strait is here fifteen miles [ 24 km ] wide , so that we may pass in two hours from one great division of the earth to another , differing as essentially in their animal life as Europe does from America … ’ |
| 16 | We may talk of such categories as ‘ professionals ’ , ‘ managers ’ , ‘ technicians ’ , ‘ foremen ’ and ‘ manual workers ’ ( and sub-gradations of these ) , but we have to recognise that these terms do not have homogeneous referents , and the degree of real social distinctiveness and cohesiveness of these categories may be highly variable . |
| 17 | However we may feel about overseas aid , the requirement for agricultural research is a matter of tens of millions of dollars , not billions . |
| 18 | To say nothing of his general right of liberty or reputation , his rights as a husband or a parent are not proprietary rights , nor is his right to recover damages for personal injury or defamation ; but we may include among proprietary rights the right to recover damages though unliquidated ( i.e. of uncertain amount until settled by a judge or jury ) for breach of contract , or , probably , even for injury to his property . |
| 19 | ‘ We may come from different parts of this great nation of ours . |
| 20 | We may pray in particular that communities will survive and flourish and that the anger and depression caused by the announcements will be healed . |
| 21 | We may agree with much of Wilson 's emphasis on the need for public policy that promotes universal programmes and increases employment and training opportunities open on the same basis to all people . |
| 22 | We may say of each braking that it was alternatively required for the effect , and that the effect alternatively required each braking . |
| 23 | We may live on one of the most advanced planets in the Galaxy ; other planets , if they exist , may either be completely lifeless or populated with creatures too stupid to send any radio signals at all . |
| 24 | ‘ The final decision will be made in the New Year and we may bow to public pressure , ’ says the spokesman . |
| 25 | I do not want any criticisms that we may have of some home owners or some trends to detract from that important fact . |
| 26 | We may inquire at this point whether non-cooperation and civil disobedience do not involve an element of coercion . |
| 27 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 28 | In Eliot 's poem the status of God as objet d'art is stressed ( ‘ And there above the painter set / The Father and the Paraclete ’ ) so that for all that we may penetrate beyond that either to gesso ground or vestiges of primitive fertility ceremony , the ultimate point of origin , the postulated God , is to be explained simply in terms of sexuality , or else remains unreachable and inexplicable . |
| 29 | We may proceed in two ways . |
| 30 | Opposition Members may well decide to make some progress and we may get to new clause 9 and to others further down the list , we can not be sure about that . |