Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When SAVE was launched in 1975 , good photographs of endangered buildings were very scarce , but with today 's improved methods of printing we can use any reasonable snapshot we are sent . |
| 2 | Without loss of generality we may take |
| 3 | Without any loss of generality we can take AOB to be in the equatorial plane of the parent star so that the acceleration is purely in the coordinate φ . |
| 4 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 5 | We decide on which piece of equipment we will buy next . |
| 6 | The list of fax cards and fax modems with which the software will work is extensive , and covers just about every piece of kit we can think of , which is reassuring . |
| 7 | We will begin by looking at intonation in the shortest piece of speech we can find — the single syllable . |
| 8 | " Relative prominence " implies that for us to have a rhythmic response to a piece of language we must perceive some of its constituents as strong and some as weak relative to each other . |
| 9 | As a simple rule of thumb we could say that major differences in thermoregulation are determined by whether heat is derived solely from the environment , or is entirely internally generated , or is somewhere between the two . |
| 10 | When we defend ourselves too rigidly against threatening aspects of change we can precipitate the very situations we seek to avert . |
| 11 | This letter was only the beginning of a case with a long history , and by piecing together a number of disjointed fragments of information we can obtain an unusually clear picture of the sequence of events and of Anselm 's reactions to them . |
| 12 | To the strong boss , Jesus promised his Spirit in the midst of persecution , with all the violence of evil we may have to face . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a tin of pork we could have as well , ’ said Mick . |
| 14 | Somehow to grasp the essence of life we must probe more deeply . |
| 15 | In order to understand the basis of Oakeshott 's critique of Rationalism in politics we must appreciate its epistemological roots . |
| 16 | ‘ But if we can find the funds in future we would want to reinstate the service . ’ |
| 17 | She said the Sports Council would not abandon us but in order to qualify for full Grant Aid in future we must show great improvements in these areas . |
| 18 | And I think they 're actually picking out a particular area for a report is is not necessarily good practice. , erm I think we can identify er those areas piece by piece we will go through them , they can be brought forward to a variety of areas . |
| 19 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 20 | Ed I 've got some news for ya , there 's actually need every scrap of help we can get right now and anything that comes out of Europe that gives us that assistance needs our support . |
| 21 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 22 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 23 | If we can maintain our level of performance we will give the fans something to celebrate at the end of the year . ’ |
| 24 | Note that at the level of phonology we can abstract smaller elements such as the phoneme /g/ in glad , but such segments have no formal meaning . |
| 25 | Within each level of government we may find competing tensions inherent in the relationships between the different sectors . |
| 26 | Fans must not seek consolation from comments such as ‘ … we dominated but did n't score … ’ or ‘ … with a bit of luck we 'll do better … ’ . |
| 27 | But with a bit of luck we 'll know tomorrow . |
| 28 | ‘ With a bit of luck we should get picked for the Russian ship tomorrow Bill . ’ |
| 29 | Then we wrapped ourselves in every bit of clothing we could find and lay down on the ground to get some sleep . |
| 30 | So perhaps there 's a , a little bit of work we can do in er in that sphere . |