Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private . |
| 2 | At first the joys of freedom and release will seem more reliable and beneficial , but in ecstasy there is one of the great potentialities of the transcendent for one day we may reach a state of perpetual ecstasy . |
| 3 | Good quality , additive-free , fresh lean meat is an excellent food , but our fast food philosophy means we may eat a lesser version . |
| 4 | Finally , we may detect a marked tendency to integrate subjects hitherto taught separately , a trend reflecting curriculum practice in Britain but also stemming from a desire to stress the relatedness of learning within a child 's own environment . |
| 5 | If we drop a tin can probably nothing will happen ; at the worst we may make a small dent . |
| 6 | At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations . |
| 7 | We may make a trip to Glen Nevis next month . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We may make an easy start with the short circuit and a bit more , but do we not then have to include in the circumstance the absence of a burst in a water pipe at the right moment ? |
| 10 | We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements . |
| 11 | Thus we may recognize a general classification of three kinds of melodic phrase : |
| 12 | From these reports , we may identify a general category of the chronically sick : people who replied ‘ yes ’ when asked if they had a long-standing illness , disability or infirmity which limited their activities in any way . |
| 13 | We may identify a number of different reasons for this lack of clarity . |
| 14 | Now , he thought , there is none to whom we may entrust a message . |
| 15 | We may construct a table for such definitions ( Table 1 ) . |
| 16 | Using elementary operations of this kind , we may construct a canonical form of lambda-matrices , which is diagonal , the elements in the diagonal being functions of |
| 17 | Here we may draw an analogy between geriatrics and paediatrics , another age-based medical specialism . |
| 18 | We may choose a professional sports person as our referent and bemoan the fact that our salaries do not compare despite the fact that we may have as much talent in our chosen fields . |
| 19 | We may swear an oath only two or three times , and unless we are a judge , or a princess , we are unlikely to sentence anyone or name any ships . |
| 20 | If we begin with too cavalier an attitude toward them , we may miss a certain richness in our intellectual heritage and one that had a profound bearing on how the word science was understood , by both practitioners and their public . |
| 21 | In passing records of our culture to future historians we may pass an indication of our cultural myopia as certain types of records are selected for preservation at the expense of others . |
| 22 | ‘ We may move an amendment on Report . |
| 23 | Certainly we may feel a resistance to the idea that mental events are in space . |
| 24 | Using the hypothetical data we may calculate a riskless hedge for the investor : |
| 25 | We may find a use for you one day in some undercover job . ’ |
| 26 | We may find a common denominator in one particular character who plays central or peripheral parts in seven of her ‘ Empire ’ books . |
| 27 | As before , we may find a suitable initial column such as ( 4 ) . |
| 28 | Although we may find a particularly explicit conceptualization of the autonomous self in certain contemporary societies , this may be only an aspect of the more general separation and autonomy of concepts evident in modernist theory . |
| 29 | The problems are more urgent now because there is the possibility that we may find a complete unified theory in as little as twenty years . |
| 30 | If these variations remind us of the history of the Alps , then so much the better : we may find a better balance to the continuing battle between development and conservation . |