Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I mean I , I mean have we really thought this through because er if we 're an anticipating having hundred , hundred and fifty people here which I suppose is of course about what we would hope for , the response that NUPE er as you know they would need to actually achieve the yes vote , I mean we need this sort of room full er would n't it not be more sensible to split up between co or not , would it not be normal for the tutor to expect the group to split up to address specific areas like , I do n't know , Labour Party membership , erm finance , I do n't know , whatever |
| 2 | Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams . |
| 3 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 4 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 5 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 6 | He , too , is constrained in his interpretation by past similar experience , by interpreting in the light of what we might call the principle of analogy . |
| 7 | And so we were involved a great deal in what we would call ‘ protesting ’ but as far as political activity , that was never my thing . |
| 8 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 9 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 10 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 11 | One of the most admired features of the educational systems in France , Germany , and Denmark is the way they integrate a substantial proportion of what we would call ‘ general education ’ into their vocational programmes . |
| 12 | Even if the brain were designed so that components could be easily removed , there is the issue of what we can conclude about the functions of its components from knowing the effects of removing one of them . |
| 13 | Thus to be a " bastard " , or the child of what we would call a " broken home " , means simply to have many parents and to be part of a larger , stronger family . |
| 14 | It should not be a question of making do with what we have but a question of what we should have . |
| 15 | Over the years , the experts seem to have got in all of a lather over what we should do to cleanse our skin properly . |
| 16 | The first phase , that of the theologians of the 1950s and the central issues of the Council itself , might be characterized as ultramontanism versus what we may call ( using an old term , now largely abandoned ) Cisalpinism . |
| 17 | But during our holiday visit we found exactly what we wanted , helped by the way Jonathan used his imagination about what we might like , even though we had n't specified it . ’ |
| 18 | Bagdikian argues that national boundaries are growing increasingly meaningless as the main actors ( five groups at the time he was writing ) strive for total control in the production , delivery , and marketing of what we can call the cultural-ideological goods of the global capitalist system . |
| 19 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 20 | Each new teacher is put through a period of what we can call social apprenticeship by the pupils in order to ascertain what sort of person and disciplinarian ( s ) he is going to be . |
| 21 | Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification . |
| 22 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that , if my account of neoteny in man is correct , even the relatively ego-less citizen of the totalitarian state is the possessor of what we might term the neurophysiological substrate of the ego and the superego , which almost certainly comprises some of the most recently acquired elements of the human brain . |
| 23 | ( However , throughout this discussion I have ignored those psychosomatic disorders which might be the consequence of what we could call ‘ somatic externalization ’ . |
| 24 | This led us to concentrate our attention on what we may term ‘ main morality ’ religions where , whatever their nature , the spirits involved act as the puritanical censors of traditional morality . |
| 25 | But I , I , I think there is a conflict between what we would regard as being a , an acceptable subsistence level and what it would appear that the peasants could possibly have been achieving . |
| 26 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 27 | The use of models , such as we have seen above , helps to clarify the relationship between what we can see and what we can only surmise . |
| 28 | We may thus envisage a gradient of what we shall term establishment of senses . |
| 29 | To a large extent we have to infer the nature of this earliest division from what we can learn of later arrangements ; in particular we are told by Gregory of Tours that in 561 Clovis 's grandsons took over the kingdoms of the previous generation ; thus , Charibert I ( 561 – 7 ) received the portion of Childebert I ( 511 – 58 ) , based on Paris ; Guntram ( 561 – 92 ) that of Chlodomer ( 511 – 24 ) , with its centre at Orléans ; Chilperic I ( 561 – 84 ) was given the kingdom of Soissons , once held by Chlothar I ( 511 – 61 ) ; while Sigibert I ( 561 – 75 ) inherited the realm of Theuderic I ( 511 – 34 ) and his descendants , Theudebert I ( 534 – 47 ) and Theudebald ( 547 – 55 ) , and established himself at Rheims . |
| 30 | There was a big argument about what we should buy so we had a vote on it . |