Example sentences of "but we may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 2 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 3 | But we may hope that the small differences in binding energies that correspond to the chemical shifts between different samples will be correctly reproduced . |
| 4 | Farrar s sentimentality may be excessive but we may envy his freedom to recognize and express childhood affection as well as childhood aggression ( ‘ I 'll kill you for that , ’ said Barker , leaping at Eric , and seizing him by the hair' ( ibid . |
| 5 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 6 | First , the caring population is diverse but we may identify two main groups ; spouse carers and children as carers . |
| 7 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 8 | We may praise the detailed work and massing of information , but we may sleep . |
| 9 | The identification of these needs and the allowance that should be made is a normative issue , but we may want to deduct items from the definition of income ( e.g. , for the expenses associated with illness or disability ) or to calculate income per equivalent person ( e.g. , allowing for differing family size or age ) . |
| 10 | There were obvious problems resulting from the overcrowding of working-class homes but we may speculate that the social-purity agitation over incest reflected middle-class anxieties and tensions concerning the sanctity of the family rather than the objective reality of working-class conditions . |
| 11 | When pressed on this , one member of the team assured us that schools were by no means excluded from consideration on these grounds , but we may speculate that members ' own positions regarding comprehensive reorganisation will have played some part . |
| 12 | And if something else really was slipped aboard at the last moment , he thought , who knows but we may recover that , too ! |
| 13 | All were agreed that multiple homage was an aberration , displeasing to God ; but we may assume that it was rare for a man to refuse a good gift or a bargain on this account . |
| 14 | The precise criteria and procedures whereby schools were included in the project are discussed at length elsewhere in this report , but we may note that a set of guidelines for school participation was drawn up and developed by the Project Coordinating Team ( see Appendix 3 ) and that these gave direction to schools as they established library committees and developed their plans . |
| 15 | The detailed functioning of the panel is the subject of further discussion in Chapter 7 , but we may note that the minutes of its meetings reflect a considerable involvement of at least one DCSL in key initiatives . |
| 16 | A copy of these is included in Appendix 3 , but we may note that they include a statement of aims and objectives , a list of members of the Coordinating Team , a structure for the school 's policy proposal ( including a spending plan ) , some notes on how schools might go about developing their proposal and certain limits within which the money must be spent . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it may be , but we may get Place to tell us . ’ |
| 18 | An open question gives great freedom to respondents but we may get just what happens to be uppermost in their minds . |
| 19 | People will probably go anyway , Sharp adds , ‘ but we may kill a few on the way , and we may get some wet noodles back . ’ |
| 20 | Very often the bereaved will not come to find us , but we may need to make the approach to them . |
| 21 | Well we 're probably alright for the other things for the time being , but we may need about the the Weber erm . |
| 22 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . |
| 23 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . ’ |
| 24 | We 're going to get jobs , of course , but we may have to keep you waiting for ages before we can settle your account . ’ |
| 25 | Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it . |
| 26 | It would be difficult to give a definitive answer , but we may have some clue . |
| 27 | ‘ No , but we may have news of them . |
| 28 | We do not have to provide sites for them , but we may have to very shortly because they themselves are going to the High Court to seek legal definition of their status and their due . |
| 29 | Also in January 1950 , Sukarno paid a state visit to India which was returned by Nehru in June : in a typically ruminative speech ( so different from Sukarno 's declamatory style ) Nehru told his audience , Politicians are accustomed to making this kind of speech on a foreign tour , but we may believe that Nehru , with his almost mystical sense of Asian-ness , meant every word . |
| 30 | The markets have already largely discounted this result but we may see shares and the pound slipping a bit further . |