Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TALKING of questionnaires we received a curious release about a job appointment at the National Westminister Bank at Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | Even if we tabulate only those time-words and their associated tempos for the movements where there is unequivocal evidence for such tempos , in H400D and the two Strasbourg motets that is without relying on those movements calculated by reference to tempo relationships we see a remarkable degree of unanimity . |
| 3 | According to the headteacher the intention was ‘ to give as many staff as possible a sense of responsibility of teaching and learning ’ , despite the fact that ‘ as in all schools we have a hierarchical structure of responsibilities ’ . |
| 4 | In the first few months we received a considerable amount of written advice from individuals and professional organisations , and so in making our decisions we could draw on a range of expertise . |
| 5 | Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home . |
| 6 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 7 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
| 8 | After Dr Jaffery had finished his evening prayers we ate a simple iftar together : dates , grapes and a plate of curried lamb . |
| 9 | To illustrate these models we consider a simplified version of the intertemporal substitution model developed above : we shall assume that consumers or demanders have full current information , but suppliers do not . |
| 10 | Following on these movements we have a marked regression followed by the widespread transgressions , both in Europe and North America , of the late Llandovery and Wenlock . |
| 11 | To meet these needs we have a wide range of plans which can be adapted to suit individual means and requirements . |
| 12 | After two weeks we got a three page fax from Isobel Lee , Helen 's assistant . |
| 13 | The RAF said : ‘ These days we have a different attitude to signs of stress and battle fatigue than they did , perhaps , in the two world wars . ’ |
| 14 | Where quantities are measured in spoonfuls we mean a level spoonful unless otherwise indicated . |
| 15 | One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters . |
| 16 | In coming years we have a unique opportunity to see mechanisms of social and political development at work . |
| 17 | At the height of his troubles we had a similar conversation … only the boot was on the other foot and I just used the same words back to him . |
| 18 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 19 | For our experiments we used a cubical tank of water seeded with silicon carbide grit of fairly uniform size , which was cooled uniformly from the top . |
| 20 | Under these conditions we detect a single band ( 3.6 kb Kpn I fragment ) which is equivalent to the two dysfunctional endogenous host Ea genes , or a band at 4.2 kb in BALB/c mice . |
| 21 | I was panicking a bit about a week before the sale as stuff was not coming in very quickly but thanks to Nursery Needs and all those who did last minute searches we had a good amount of stuff to sell in the end . |
| 22 | They are one in nine hundred similar food outlets in Cotswold District we deal with them all even handedly but where there are problems we have a statutory responsibility to deal with them |
| 23 | To help you get to know the local wines we recommend a special tasting at the Wine Forum , just a few yards walk down the promenade ( book on arrival — M9 per person ) . |
| 24 | Jack 's Rake is a difficult scramble and at one or two points positively frightening as we climbed the final yards we felt a great sense of achievement . |
| 25 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
| 26 | Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time . |
| 27 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 28 | I think maybe with this next issue of procedures we need a separate mode going round which says highlights the key things , yeah . |
| 29 | Because of uncertainty about the true palliative benefit of combined regimens we conducted a randomised study of the effects of chemotherapy and supportive care on survival and quality of life of patients with colorectal cancer . |
| 30 | If instead of point charges we have a distributed space charge p ( x' , y' , z' ) then the sum in eqn ( 2.23 ) goes over into an integral : |