Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] we [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 2 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Other tribal cosmologies exhibit analogous features some of which we shall consider later . |
| 6 | There were , and still are of course , immense difficulties in the way of quantifying human phenomena , some of which we shall touch on later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Anyway , thank you all very much , er some of you we will see again tomorrow , ten o'clock . |
| 9 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 10 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 11 | We always look for a local engineering partner , with whom we can build up a strong working relationship , to provide knowledge of local practices and statutory requirements . |
| 12 | Christian joy is found when we hold on to God 's hand and when we learn that fabulous certainty with which we can step out into the uncertainties of the coming day . |
| 13 | When we talk about part-time holdings in any context — certainly in an island context — we are not speaking about small static parcels of land with which we can play about like pieces in a jig-saw puzzle . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | By the time we finish with it we shall have just scratched the surface of the subject . |
| 16 | Cos I was , I said to the youngsters yesterday , I says I 'll tell you what we 'll do , we 'll just take your trainers tomorrow , or we 'll go down the town and put your competition paintings in and then we 'll come round and get the bus up home , and then I thought ah the hell with it we 'll go on down to York Street |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In this chapter , I shall attempt to separate the parts that make up the whole , then to explore some of the ways in which we may bring about harmony to mind-body-spirit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There are two other ways in which we could break down those two unanswered situations . |
| 21 | The fire of the Lady of the Hearth also symbolizes the way in which we can reach back to the past and forward to the future . |
| 22 | Clearly any deliberation of future policy has to look and look very responsibly and comprehensively er both at the question of the commitments that our armed forces have er and the best way in which we can carry out those commitments . |
| 23 | This is a world in which we can grow closer to God . |
| 24 | Christ has called us to step out by faith and this is one very small way in which we can do so . |
| 25 | First , I want to discuss whether there is any way in which we can estimate how long is required for evolution . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend agree that one way in which we can cut down imports is to buy British ? |
| 28 | One way in which we can look over a writer 's shoulder , and observe the process of composition , is by examining alterations made both in manuscript , and in revised editions of a work . |
| 29 | A school cleaner married to a doctor is in Social Class I and a school cleaner married to a labourer is in Social Class V. A social classification system is one of the ways in which we can see how successful a society is in educating and sustaining the healthy life of its members . |
| 30 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |