Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the text he puts considerable effort into emphasising that any conclusions we may arrive at about the Universe and the objects within it are only scientific theories . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Using matrix algebra we may arrive at a numerical solution for the factor premiums , where F -1 is the inverse matrix of F , . |
| 4 | We may scoff at the sort of community action that was represented by ducking-stools and pillories , by ‘ sending to Coventry ’ and by , in its extremest form , lynch law . |
| 5 | ‘ We may guess at something like a good reason for the terrible earthquakes in South America , ’ observed Kingsley . |
| 6 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 7 | However hopeful we may be , however much we may snatch at the more encouraging indicators , we can not look forward with any great confidence to a consumer recovery . |
| 8 | We may inquire at this point whether non-cooperation and civil disobedience do not involve an element of coercion . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | We may look at this example from another angle . |
| 11 | " We ought to go at once , " said Fiver . |
| 12 | So I , and , and to be honest I think that 's what we ought to do at this stage , |
| 13 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
| 14 | I do not believe that it is , and we ought to look at it again . |
| 15 | Erm of course two thousand and six is a consideration that we ought to look at once a new settlement location 's identified . |
| 16 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 17 | I think we ought to look at , not necessarily with the agencies , our own delegation might well be able to do something . |
| 18 | But I do believe that we should seriously look at getting say , internal usage bags for nutrients er bags for lime , anything that we have printed , we ought to look at the and say to Mike or get 'em printed or something . |
| 19 | I do n't think we 're gon na solve it today , but what I 'm saying is did we ought to look at some sort of action plan brainstorm , call it what you will for the very near future to look at how we 're gon na tackle this problem . |
| 20 | We are working within a straight jacket imposed by central government , but our choice was that budget , for all its faults in totality , for the fact that it was half a million less than it could be , and the budget put forward by the Labour party who had totally refused to negotiate on their budget , and therefore we ought to look at that budget in detail to see what was on offer , because it was n't very pretty . |
| 21 | On the other hand , we do n't want to get in your way , and we should clarify at the start our respective roles . |
| 22 | It is my considered opinion that we should stay at a safe distance and await further developments . ’ |
| 23 | The English Tourist Board 's half of that erm is designed to persuade us , to persuade the British that erm is the year that we should discover Britain , this is the year that we should stay at home and take our holidays in the view of everything that 's happened , and in view of prices overseas . |
| 24 | We should emphasise at this point that Garrett is much less specific than we are being in describing the model . |
| 25 | It wo n't be as comfortable as this , but the fucking Mausers are the same , and the shelling and the mortaring , so we should feel at home . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I think we should go at once and see Patrick . ’ |
| 27 | Pusey suggested that we should meet at his flat at six o'clock and that suited me well , for with luck I should know the outcome of Redpath 's interview with the dentist , and have Miss Macdonald 's list . |
| 28 | And I also think that we should looking at harm reduction methods , in schools definitely not drug- wise . |
| 29 | I think we are all agreed that we should aim at keeping the moratorium in place , at least until the year 2000 — I wo n't go into the reasons for that choice — and that meanwhile we do n't necessarily have to try to resolve the ideological problems . |
| 30 | But we should distinguish at least between the meaning of an utterance and what the utterer meant by it . |