Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We export more to France than we do to the entire 50 countries of the Commonwealth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The weather is glorious , so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes , and find a hitherto undiscovered park . |
| 6 | This gives M I s , but a basis must contain 2M-1 variables , so we need among the basic variables . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ But the demand is coming from the young so we look at the educational side to cut that demand . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Once we move beyond the primary sensory receiving areas the situation gets even more tenuous . |
| 12 | What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ? |
| 13 | What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If we go into the New Year in 10th place , we are not going to be able to do it . ’ |
| 17 | We can see the reason if we go to the opposite end of the scale and focus on selfishness . |
| 18 | If we go to the High Atlas of Morocco , we find even closer similarities , with basic intrusions and extrusions within the familiar red sandstone . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , they argue that if we persist with the established electoral system then we will continue with the problems of government which they identify . |
| 21 | If we speak of the stylistic values of a non-literary text , we are interested in the way in which linguistic choices are adapted to communicative function — to such functions as newspaper reporting , advertising , scientific exposition . |
| 22 | Since the transformations are similar , all the derived matrices B , C , D , … have the same eigenvalues as A ; and if we proceed to the diagonal form , then the chain product X3 … gives the modal matrix X. |
| 23 | If we enquire into the evolutionary background to this situation , it is immediately clear that the evolution of behaviour in both humans and primates rests on a common mammalian basis which can doubtless be traced to the greater adaptiveness , activity and independence of environmental conditions which the acquisition of warm-bloodedness provided . |
| 24 | If we write for the current value of ( it will be zero unless is basic ) , we have seen that , when , we can still satisfy ( 8.1 ) with where for reverse , for forward and zero for all other variables . |
| 25 | We can probably be most influential if we concentrate on the following issues : |
| 26 | If we turn to the other true private context , dispositions for restitution of property to another individual , we can move more quickly . |
| 27 | If we take as the distinguishing feature of devolution , as compared with deconcentration , the fact that it involves the removal of direct control by any of the organs of central government over the administration of the devolved powers , then two quite distinct types of devolution require recognition . |
| 28 | If we revert to the original problem , the solution of Ax = x , we now see that there are just n eigenvalues s and that correspondingly there are just n vectors xs ; i.e. we have n equations unc We can combine them all into the single equation unc or more briefly AX = X where X is ow the square matrix made up of the n column vectors xs , and unc is the diagonal matrix of the eigenvalues ; and our problem is now to find the matrices X and unc for the given A. |
| 29 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 30 | If we start with the Financial Times well by their standards it 's not a good result er , but again let's get it in context , the newspaper 's trading margin is just , just under ten percent , it 's er it 's about nine point six percent er , and on the circulation front they 've done well in market share terms where we 've marginally improved our our market share in the quality market . |