Example sentences of "what we may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we may expect , know or not know about our audience can present other dimensions of difficulty and challenge . |
| 2 | What we may recognize as a scientific principle was enunciated via the theological concept of divine immutability . |
| 3 | What I looked for , but only occasionally glimpsed , was the recognition that , though differing frameworks of shared assumptions may be barriers to effective understanding , the rewards can be substantial — if not for what we learn about the alien systems then for what we may discover about our own previously unquestioned beliefs . |
| 4 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 5 | Now , perhaps , people will be more inclined to do just that , and if they are , then what we may need is a trade union link review group mark two . |
| 6 | The great strength of capitalism , I suggested , whatever its failings , is what we may call its psychology of opportunism , its offer of more . |
| 7 | Yet we are also familiar within ourselves with what we may call our rational streak . |
| 8 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 9 | The first phase , that of the theologians of the 1950s and the central issues of the Council itself , might be characterized as ultramontanism versus what we may call ( using an old term , now largely abandoned ) Cisalpinism . |
| 10 | Thus we have the impression of what we may call a ‘ sacred history ’ , threaded through history : the history of the liberation of people . |
| 11 | One area of controversy surrounding the nature of the change to ‘ silent independent ’ reading has to do with the role of ‘ inner speech ’ — what we may call ‘ the voice in the head ’ . |
| 12 | If some studies of style are of doubtful value because of their emphasis on quantitative methods , the opposite tendency to rely entirely on what we may call stylistic intuition has , if anything , been even more prevalent . |
| 13 | There is no doubt that factors like these are important in what we may call the social ‘ life ’ of language , and they are implicated in many aspects of linguistic variation and change . |
| 14 | Thus he slices through the old argument between ‘ formalism ’ and ‘ realism ’ by inserting what we may call a notion of intervention . |
| 15 | What we may call ‘ the generation of 1760 ’ was composed of paternalistic modernizers and enlightened patriots in the eighteenth-century sense of the term . |
| 16 | -WA serves to create a theme by identifying NP 's [ i.e. noun phrases ] that are to be placed on what we may call the ‘ thematic stage ’ . |
| 17 | This is the central concern for what we may call the ‘ top-down ’ approach to the study of implementation : why do n't those who are expected to carry out policies do what is required of them ? |
| 18 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 19 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 20 | We do not know what we may encounter , however , and thus our duty requires us to ensure our success by using our knowledge to build a better ship . |
| 21 | What we may have to do is actually balance the air conditioning 's needs up to suit the building , if you like , rather than individuals concerned , and then we 'll have to address the individuals concerns the same , in terms of moving the desk , or moving the person if they 're in a draft . |
| 22 | Asking questions to which we know the answer is a useful exercise because it formalises in answer form what we may have only held vaguely before : " Why are we doing this ? " |
| 23 | ‘ What we may consider doing is to threaten to refuse to renew the temporary planning permission for the portakabin , ’ said Coun Christine Russell . |
| 24 | To gain that knowledge means we must not be afraid of what we may uncover within our nature in this process of self-analysis . |
| 25 | Not to be over-selfish with what we may gain , |
| 26 | It is possible to some degree to distinguish between those implementation issues that arise essentially from the ‘ distance ’ between what we may describe as ‘ centre ’ and ‘ periphery ’ and those that are facets of other aspects of relationships within complex organizations . |
| 27 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 28 | I think what we may get away with then is handouts and less overheads . |
| 29 | This led us to concentrate our attention on what we may term ‘ main morality ’ religions where , whatever their nature , the spirits involved act as the puritanical censors of traditional morality . |