Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] 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 | If we wish to reclaim responsibility for ourselves we must aim for self-sufficiency because only then can we have control over our lives . |
| 3 | Instead of keeping the money for ourselves we will re-invest it on your behalf in your endowment plan . |
| 4 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 5 | Magic : it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand , and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams . |
| 6 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was our ‘ Marche Képi Blanc ’ , on completion of which we would have passed the tests to become legionnaires . |
| 11 | The instrument with which we shall purge our minds is the idea that I call the extended phenotype . |
| 12 | Because language appears such a natural instrument with which we can describe reality , its terms and expressions seem to describe the way things are and will always be . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 15 | There are two important fields of action in which we can work for the restoration of a vigorous and healthy economic life . |
| 16 | We put in a new sink and Malcolm bought us a Baby Belling cooker , one electric ring on which we could heat a an of beans very , very slowly . |
| 17 | Formal signals are often grouped together in an induction programme , and so anxious are we to reduce the total uncertainty to something we can understand that we will swallow the formal induction without even a whimper . |
| 18 | ‘ Solitude ’ and its cognates — a much more positive expression of the reality — but seven times , a not insignificant indication to which we must return . ) |
| 19 | Nor is it different in terms of another relation between cause and effect to which we shall come , or any relation between causal circumstance and effect . |
| 20 | It even had a creaking dock at which we could tie up directly alongside . |
| 21 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 22 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 23 | All these examples are part and parcel of what we can encounter in higher education courses . |
| 24 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | and if there 's plant out in the sun for one we can put one in a pot and keep it in the kitchen |
| 27 | Yeah right so go down and see him , and then go over to that place near Red Row and see if they 'll cut that wood for you we can see it 's just gone half past two now , I want a ball game on the fence post |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |