Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb base] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We much regret that this involved a net loss of some jobs but if we are to remain competitive against increasing overseas competition , it is essential that we operate with the lowest possible cost base and the most efficient facilities . |
| 2 | How is it that what seem like random discharges from a part of the brain that we share with the humblest reptiles can end up as the elaborate , coherent , cognitive activity we know as dreaming ? |
| 3 | Wordsworth discovered and established those kinds of poetry which would best suit him ; it is in the German period that we travel to the furthest limits of the ‘ Wordsworthian ’ vision , in poems such as the ‘ Lucy ’ and ‘ Matthew ’ sequences , which are at one level blindingly clear , but in terms of prose exposition almost impossible to ‘ explain' . |
| 4 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
| 5 | We are constantly approached by people who want our help , and we respond in the best way we can . |
| 6 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 7 | " It has been dinned into the ears of our members without hesitation or scruple , and we repeat with the greatest force at our command that seamen , to whatever class they may belong , are false to themselves , to their cause and to their country in taking any course that may , even in the smallest degree , weaken the hands of those responsible for the conduct of the present campaign against the most ignoble foe that it has ever become Britain 's duty to tackle " . |
| 8 | If we succeed in the biggest executive operation , we can succeed with almost any operation . ’ |
| 9 | Finlay explains : ‘ Since we round to the nearest metre it could be 914.5 metres , say , which would make it a Munro . |
| 10 | We must , however , now accept that these plans are developments from the original forms and that great changes may have taken place before we get to the earliest arrangement we can distinguish . |
| 11 | ‘ So you can see , Commander Talbot , what we mean when we talk about the greatest good of the greatest number . |