Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [adj] " 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 | Having already considered major or lexical word classes , we may here consider minor word classes ( " function words " ) : prepositions , conjunctions , pronouns , determiners , auxiliaries , interjections . |
| 8 | We may here take each of its main passages in turn . |
| 9 | We may here respond that Quine is overreacting . |
| 10 | Despite all the theoretical and intuitive objections to a Martian origin — the uncertainties of the evidence and difficulties of proof — excitement is mounting at the possibility that , without waiting for a mission to return samples from Mars , we may already have Martian samples at hand . |
| 11 | We may best illustrate this with out usual example ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We may also collect factual information on the ability and attitude of individual pupils and on their background in the subject concerned ; this last is of importance because the level of demand on pupils can only be judged in the knowledge of how far the material concerned is new to them and of their record of success or failure with it in the past . |
| 14 | We may also have further instructions to manipulate the index register or registers . |
| 15 | We may also discern close similarities between Hayek and Oakeshott on law and government . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We may well feel cynical about the type of best-selling adventure which assumes heroism without accounting for it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I think w we may well see some kind of shake out . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That we may swiftly pierce all defences , as our commanders have conceived we shall — |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We may therefore say that sir conventionally implicates that the addressee is male and socially higher in rank than the speaker ( see Chapter 3 ) |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 'm hoping to get ashore after lunch for a while , but we may still get that swim . |
| 28 | We may perhaps discern four separate factors . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |