Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |
| 2 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 3 | The , the bright city lights that 's not what makes people uproot their , uproot their lives and go and move somewhere else , they are after economic betterment and that 's the driving force er behind migration so just before we leave the non economic factors what might they be ? |
| 4 | He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’ |
| 5 | We shall discuss this issue further below after we have examined the nature of the ECJ 's reasoning . |
| 6 | ‘ We know we have to reduce consumption but we 're going to get change more quickly if we do it step-by-step . |
| 7 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 8 | ‘ We know we can get the inhibitor genes into a cell but we ca n't tell whether we 'll be able to produce this inhibitor efficiently enough until we test it . |
| 9 | Peta and Isobel fell in love with the place as surely as we have and they , like us , concentrated on the commonplace . |
| 10 | On the motorways no problems at the moment as far as we know . |
| 11 | Of course , we can in theory expand the business as fast as we like , but even a major player like Sainsbury 's has n't got an infinite supply of skilled bakers and bakery managers on hand . |
| 12 | I 'd given the warden details of our itinerary , and the call got put straight through to my own room here just before we went for lunch . |
| 13 | We had tinned stuff all yesterday because we did n't know where to get the other . ’ |
| 14 | When I was a young conductor in Germany it was usual to conduct the finale much slower than we hear it nowadays . |
| 15 | We now know the Moon 's surface as well as we know the Earth 's . |
| 16 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 17 | By the next Prime Minister 's Questions on Thursday she knew the policy rather better than we did . |
| 18 | We can get a lift easy enough when we want to go , ’ Maxted assured me . |
| 19 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 20 | In fact , if we all had sex as often as we had surveys we would n't have time to answer the surveys in the first place . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's not getting paid one cent as far as we know . |
| 22 | We gave up the written report quite frankly because we found it a waste of time . |
| 23 | I gripped my mum 's hand very tightly as we walked along the playground . |
| 24 | ‘ We are trying to educate young people and point them in the right direction and I do n't think we are fulfilling our duty very well when we have a rule like this . ’ |
| 25 | We will know by the first of April this year rather more than we know at the moment but you 're right it can go up and down , but there are lots of budgets in Social Services which are subject to this and it 's part of our job to try and manage that during the course of the year . |
| 26 | It 's the first time he 's been brought out this way as far as we know |
| 27 | The Akhenaten is interesting because he was the first Ayatollah of history as far as we know . |
| 28 | Using contrary approaches — by examining the work of popularisers such as T. H. Huxley and John Tyndall , and by looking beyond the superficial , anti-scientific statements of imaginative writers — she has revealed an intellectual and emotional agreement far closer than we have been led to believe . |
| 29 | Overall , however , it has stood the test of time surprisingly well when we consider how little information on pre-capitalist systems they disposed of . |