Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 2 | At the time , we had also been commissioned by a Hess sheep owner to take a party of shepherds and dogs to North Rona , where we hoped to cull the resident sheep flock , selecting a number for sale in Stornoway . |
| 3 | Eventually we reached the Aru Islands , close to the shores of west New Guinea , where we managed to record the first ever colour footage of the golden-tailed bird in its natural habitat . |
| 4 | On the other hand , we could see areas where we continued to hold the best cards and could build on our strengths . |
| 5 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 6 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations . |
| 8 | Perhaps in the post-election ferment of thinking about where Scotland goes now it is even more important that we seek to discover the appropriate role for Christian Aid in that . |
| 9 | I hope that Opposition Members will accept in good faith the undertakings given by my right hon. and learned Friend and myself and that they will accept that we seek to find the best possible way forward to meet the important points about victimisation . |
| 10 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 12 | One very interesting feature of the project is that we hope to use the old bridge which used to span the railway in Princes St. Gardens . |
| 13 | One reason advanced by some is that we tend to value the personal above other things . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been lucky that we managed to convert the right strategy into the right results , ’ says Lord Weir . |
| 15 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 16 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 17 | Certain things were asserted beyond peradventure : namely , that we had to get the public-sector borrowing-requirement down , because if it went up or stayed up it would keep interest rates up . |
| 18 | As an example , suppose that we wish to calculate the Retail Price Index for April 1985 . |
| 19 | ‘ I am convinced that we need to push the British disarmament boat out from the shore . |
| 20 | The German theologian Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) believed that we need to demythologise the New Testament because demonism was part of the cultural world-view of first-century Palestine that we must reject in order to discover authentic faith ( Bultmann 1953:5 ) . |
| 21 | We might speculate that we need to teach the next generation the principles of establishing the Lady of the Hearth , the ways in which an environment can be made a happy , welcoming place . |
| 22 | She also emphasizes that we need to study the subtle effects which expectations about gender have on learning , particularly in the case of female-male differences whose biological nature is often taken for granted . |
| 23 | The letter stresses that we breach the European directive in that we fail to consider the environmental impact of the station and the high-speed link together , as a whole , with all the direct and indirect consequences . |
| 24 | Well , there are always possible alternative forecasts that we might make , but on the whole I think we know that we have to decide the best possible forecast that we can give , and , well , when I say ‘ the best ’ , the most erm confident forecast that we can push out erm with the information that we have available . |
| 25 | IT is with great sadness that we have to announce the premature death , on , of , 's production planning manager . |
| 26 | Secondly the , the constraint reduces the opportunity that we have to pursue the ethical investment policies which will have regard to the aims and objectives of the Council as a whole , and then lastly there is the matter of practicality . |
| 27 | Assuming that we wanted to explore the harmonic potential of a basic C major scale ( remember you can and should apply this approach to other scale types as well ! ) , the first step would be to play through the triads ( a suggested fingering with each maj chord voiced 1,5,1,3 , each min chord voiced 1,2,1 , ♭3 , and the diminished chord voiced 1 , ♭5,1 , ♭3 is given in fig 1 ) . |
| 28 | To the extent that we continue to celebrate the traditional myth of the entrepreneurial hero , we will slow the progress of change and adaptation that is essential to our economic success . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman may not have noted the fact that we continue to encourage the Malawian Government to apply the principles of accountable government that they endorsed at the Harare Heads of Government meeting . |
| 30 | It is a wise precaution to ensure that we continue to have the nuclear deterrent which has served us so well in the past . |