Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] we [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 2 | The Honorary Members were John Couch Adams , the astronomer ; William Crookes , the chemist , of whom we shall hear more ; W. E. Gladstone , Prime Minister again early in that year in the midst of the Irish Home Rule struggles ; John Ruskin ; Lord Tennyson ; A. R. Wallace , the co-discoverer of natural selection ; and G. F. Watts , the painter . |
| 3 | Saussure speaks of semiology ( 1974 : 16 ) as a ‘ science that studies the life of signs within society ’ , a science of which we shall hear more in the chapter on modern French structuralism . |
| 4 | Other tribal cosmologies exhibit analogous features some of which we shall consider later . |
| 5 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 6 | Anyway , thank you all very much , er some of you we will see again tomorrow , ten o'clock . |
| 7 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 8 | The major groups into which we can fit almost all fossils from the Cambrian onwards , and all the living fauna , are called phyla ( singular : phylum ) . |
| 9 | By the time we finish with it we shall have just scratched the surface of the subject . |
| 10 | This image of the crocodile seemingly swallowing her offspring evokes a real primitive horror in human emotions ; it touches the fear of being taken back and devoured by the mother from whom we must grow away . |
| 11 | I wish to explore the progress from 1840 , with its clear problems and answers , to the present in which we must incorporate much subtler considerations about our relationship with animals and with plants and with the inanimate world about us . |
| 12 | This is a world in which we can grow closer to God . |
| 13 | Christ has called us to step out by faith and this is one very small way in which we can do so . |
| 14 | After a generation in which we can detect only rather humdrum work in the Kerameikos , the Athenians established their supremacy in the second quarter of the century . |
| 15 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 16 | If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done . |
| 17 | Once established they underwent a number of evolutionary ‘ bursts ’ in which diverse kinds of reptiles occupied a variety of habitats , the most spectacular of which was the dinosaur radiation in the Mesozoic , to which we shall return later . |
| 18 | Finally in this short resumé of the teachers ' predicament , we should mention the more personal factors to which we shall return later in the book : their aspirations , ambitions , values and concerns . |
| 19 | In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later . |
| 20 | This raises further issues about what is meant by the ‘ importance of manufacturing ’ , and how it should be measured , to which we shall return later . |
| 21 | Whether such a prognosis is indeed likely or not is a question to which we shall return shortly , but for the time being let us merely note the danger , which is in any event a very real one , and pass on . |
| 22 | He sees part of the answer in the massive recession suffered by the British economy at that time , a point to which we shall return below . |
| 23 | It was conceded by counsel for the defendant , necessarily and rightly , that the old offence of larceny by a trick is covered by section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , as well as by section 15(1) to which we shall refer later , despite what may be called the apparent consent of the victim . |
| 24 | This method allowed us to generalise the result to all Scottish schools but limited the extent to which we could explore potentially interesting responses . |
| 25 | This is a point to which we will return later . |
| 26 | The absence of any figures for turns longer than 60 words after scene six is suggestive of a change in Anderson 's conversational behaviour , to which we will return later . |
| 27 | This has the advantage from the point of view of the courts of largely relieving them of the necessity to enter into the merits of business judgment , a matter to which we will return below . |
| 28 | It has elicited a number of interesting points on which we would do well to reflect . |
| 29 | Holmes said , ‘ I think this is a matter on which we should lead rather than follow ’ . |
| 30 | We have seen that caf can have several roles ; to move toward it we must break away from keeping our learners straightjacketed in systems that do not allow them to express their individual needs and ideas . |