Example sentences of "we began this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The seller may be entirely happy with the position or , as we began this discussion by assuming , he may decide that he does not want to hold so much wealth in the form of money .
2 We began this volume with two basic questions : what is stigma and why does stigma remain ?
3 When we began this study we qualified its title very carefully .
4 We began this section by stating that under certain conditions we could show that free enterprise or free markets led to a Pareto-efficient allocation .
5 We began this section by noting that , if free markets tend to overpollute , society can reduce pollution either by regulating the quantity of pollution ( as it does ) or by using the price system to discourage such activities by taxing them .
6 We began this section by noting that , unlike the United States which takes a structural approach to anti-trust policy , in which the possession of monopoly power is itself regarded as objectionable , the UK has taken a more open view of the benefits of promoting competition .
7 We began this section by asking what kind of explanation for complicated things would satisfy us .
8 We began this chapter with John of Salisbury , scholar , pilgrim and envoy to the papal Curia .
9 We began this chapter by noting the importance of certain ideas of science amongst both lecturers and students .
10 The top management group with which we began this chapter decided to begin to change their organisational defensive routines by beginning with the ones that they create in their own meetings .
11 We began this chapter by emphasising that fitness for purpose is the chief factor deciding whether an information product succeeds or fails in a given application .
12 The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it .
13 On the contrary , as we began this book by noticing , most people think that judges who act in this way are usurpers .
14 A system that forces some into the worst schools is hardly one that meets the canons of social justice with which we began this article .
15 Well , we began this argument by agreeing that Cairns-Smith 's theory , and the primeval-soup theory , sound a bit far-fetched and improbable to us .
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