Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ We export more to France than we do to the entire 50 countries of the Commonwealth . |
| 3 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 4 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
| 5 | How far such resistance is possible varies according to the research methods employed but , generally speaking , we know more about the poor and the powerless than we do about the rich and the powerful . |
| 6 | We know more about the poor , who have to fill in forms of all kinds in order to receive benefits , than we do about the rich , who have to declare their tax position only to the taxman , in strict confidence . |
| 7 | The weather is glorious , so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes , and find a hitherto undiscovered park . |
| 8 | This gives M I s , but a basis must contain 2M-1 variables , so we need among the basic variables . |
| 9 | cos there is n't no ventilator in it , and that 's the one we sleep in cos we 're frightened of people coming through the back door in the night , you know kicking in the back door , so we sleep in the other room . |
| 10 | ‘ But the demand is coming from the young so we look at the educational side to cut that demand . ’ |
| 11 | Alright but in any double logged mode , right , the coefficients you estimate are elasticities , so we look at the incoming elasticity , we get a measure , or we get an estimate point six eight , right , that 's a positive as we would expect suggesting that er erm textiles are a normal good , right . |
| 12 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 13 | Once we move beyond the primary sensory receiving areas the situation gets even more tenuous . |
| 14 | With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland . |
| 15 | After Bunyan , he is not a pioneer of operatic form until we come to the three Church Parables . |
| 16 | What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ? |
| 17 | What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ? |
| 18 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
| 19 | I Admittedly if we stay in the rural districts of England in 1700 we will discover that forty to fifty years is not unrealistic , but old age is rare . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not the end of the world if we go into the Second Division . |
| 21 | If we go into the New Year in 10th place , we are not going to be able to do it . ’ |
| 22 | If we go to the first style of A this is an activist and some of you have got high scores here we 've got sixteen fifteen and twelve these are , these are hard activist . |
| 23 | We can see the reason if we go to the opposite end of the scale and focus on selfishness . |
| 24 | If we go to the High Atlas of Morocco , we find even closer similarities , with basic intrusions and extrusions within the familiar red sandstone . |
| 25 | We 've been told if we go over the two pound , they wo n't sell , sell so well , erm , so really I 'm not too sure , but er , I , I can work on bigger , er , like I got this couple of days off living Manchester , I 'm sure if I approach erm , you know , the police , they might give me a couple of days selling out there . |
| 26 | For example , if we go from the 1792 clock 's slow ( perhaps spurious ) ‘ Quail ’ 'minuet' ( a ‘ traditional ’ title , no manuscript source is available ) to the 1793 clock 's fast Minuetto allegretto from Haydn 's ‘ Clock ’ symphony , the ranges on the Niemecz mechanical organs , flywheel going at 60 , go from dotted minim = 36 to 72 . |
| 27 | If we go round the same group and ask them how much management training they 've had , we 'd be lucky if we could dredge up fifty weeks . |
| 28 | if we stick to the original proposed target , we 'd only be now some twenty five minutes for general debate and I would be , this is probably therefore a serious issue |
| 29 | If we pivot in the first of these , as indicated in the tableau , we obtain P3/T2 in which θ = θ . |
| 30 | But I will plan ahead , even if we crash into the Fourth Division . |