Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] 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 | On the other hand , we do n't want to get in your way , and we should clarify at the start our respective roles . |
| 12 | It is my considered opinion that we should stay at a safe distance and await further developments . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We should emphasise at this point that Garrett is much less specific than we are being in describing the model . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I think we should go at once and see Patrick . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But we should distinguish at least between the meaning of an utterance and what the utterer meant by it . |
| 20 | If we have not got through for what we need to er examine then the proposition is that we should reconvene at five thirty this evening . |
| 21 | We should stop at any one place |
| 22 | We should state at the outset that it is not the purpose , nor within the scope , of this book to try to answer such questions in their entirety . |
| 23 | No , they it 's the council collects it and in Uttlesford , that 's why I said we should get at the same time an Uttlesford councillor because I would |
| 24 | Women wept as Barry Ryan , in a moving tribute to his twin , said : ‘ You were at my first breath and I felt your last breath , we should smile at such perfect symmetry . ’ |
| 25 | I have been offered the living of the four merged parishes , and we should live at Lulling Vicarage . ’ |
| 26 | So we should establish at the outset that , over geological time , certain continents have indeed been ‘ lost ’ . |
| 27 | According to our size , we should die at about 25 years , by which age we should have also run out of heartbeats , having used up well over 800 million . |
| 28 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 29 | We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR . |
| 30 | In conclusion , and to end near to our starting-point , we should look at Pound 's second apology . |