Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] we [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just la 's look to see if we can make a case all right ? |
| 2 | It 's more of a trick to see if we can get artistic freedom within a business structure — to see if we can create things and sell them without charging five times our cost . ’ |
| 3 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman , however , that all of us who are engaged in the democratic affairs of the Province — that does not simply involve Governments ; it involves also political parties — have a joint responsibility to see whether we can advance matters by way of dialogue . |
| 4 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 5 | But if we are seriously interested in promoting the quality of higher education , of improving the effectiveness by which teachers teach and students learn , it is to the teaching process that we must look . |
| 6 | Duly , when the Conservatives were returned in 1970 , Ted Heath asked me to lead a delegation to see whether we could work out an agreement . |
| 7 | It was breathtaking to be told by the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) that we should have approached the Opposition to see whether we could negotiate a deal . |
| 8 | actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone |
| 9 | We have some hard thinking to do and we must move forward with a positive and radical agenda . ’ |
| 10 | The Opposition believe that we should consider alternatives and the ability of magistrates to say that something must be done with first offenders and that an alternative can work . |
| 11 | The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones , and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes . |
| 12 | The sampling theorem indicates that we must sample these phenomena at a frequency of no less than half their wavelength if we are to avoid bias in measurement . |
| 13 | At the moment , the moratorium that the United States has announced on the development of its tactical air-to-surface missile programme means that we would have great difficulty getting a credible system from the United States if we wanted one . |
| 14 | These statistics can easily seem impenetrable and tedious , but they have important light to throw if we can tease out their implications . |
| 15 | So er obviously I did n't know anything about the money owed or we would 've endeavoured to pay it off straight away when we went to the bank er originally when it went when it folded . |
| 16 | The Watch Committee agreed that we should have , not we , the force , should have a motorbike combination . |
| 17 | But erm happily erm we managed to deal with the matters primarily because management agreed that we would have a meeting on a Monday and a meeting on a Thursday , both held in the afternoon , in the last hour of the working day . |
| 18 | So many attempts by Christians to communicate the gospel begin where we would like people to be rather than where they are actually at . |
| 19 | Peirce 's first philosophy requires that we can formulate substantive conceptions of truth and reference without recourse to the special sciences . |
| 20 | The House will remember that we had the effrontery to propose that we should have a property-based system founded largely on capital valuation and with legal liability falling on the householder alone . |
| 21 | Are you up to it ? planned , but the election campaign started before we could publish it — Ed . |
| 22 | And finance director , Barry Dale proclaims simply , ‘ When I arrived [ in 1987 ] there were no management accounts that we would recognise today . ’ |
| 23 | Quality Management means that we could have as much as 30% more time and effort to devote to our real jobs — for that is the amount of time and effort expended in British businesses sorting out things that have gone wrong . |
| 24 | So the question arises whether we can afford the luxury of giving equal social provision to ‘ remote areas ’ ? |
| 25 | On the whole we are , until suddenly panic reigns and we must rush to a class again and limber up . |
| 26 | Our terms of reference suggested that we should consider drama in the context of the great dramatic works of literature . |
| 27 | With this in mind er , this morning I 've written to George , the trade union secretary of the Civil Engineering Conciliation Board , the negotiating machine and suggested to him that he contacts the employers to seek a further meeting to see if we can restart the talks based on doing something about the longstanding commitment by both sides of the industry to have a positive and sensible pay structure for the future this may be one way forward , one way out of the deadlock . |
| 28 | It may also be appropriate to discuss with the firm supplying the original quotation to see whether we can obtain a discount . |
| 29 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 30 | Some twenty years ago , as a very young and inexperienced social worker , I and some colleagues working in a social services team decided that we would run a bereavement group . |