Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 2 | We never learn how Sya and Sohy have raised the money to come to Britain any more than we discover how the unemployed thespian lodger pays the rent . |
| 3 | So far as Trading Standards is concerned Chairman , the major income are weights and measures testing fees and they are set down by LACOTS , that 's Local Authority Courts on Trad on Trading Standards on er , an agreed scale , so we charge exactly the same as other authorities , for the same , for the same work , and we increase the fees every year , er , in line with erm , the recommendation . |
| 4 | As a last resort MOD might tell us if we filled in the right forms . |
| 5 | Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four |
| 6 | You 're going to get more , it 's just as if we had just the big pipe from the |
| 7 | He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’ |
| 8 | Again , if we knew how the Euclidean curved space-times in the sum over histories behaved at early times , we would know the quantum state of the universe . |
| 9 | So far if we take on the ninety ninety two figures we attended something like eight hundred bonfires . |
| 10 | ‘ If we take off the reedbed 's top 30cm of vegetation — just enough so that we do not kill off the reeds — and put in some new dykes to give a good water flow we will restore the reedbed to its former glory . ’ |
| 11 | In the echo of the receding explosions and the sulphurous cordite of the rockfall , I said to Steve we might live longer if we abseiled down the rocky left side of the icefield , well away from the fall line . |
| 12 | He is bound to say this , indeed , for if we considered only the positive consequences of an action , and not those which would have occurred if it had not been done , one could not count in the suffering which an action prevented in its favour , which would be absurd . |
| 13 | Even if we accept only the four gospels as ‘ the records ’ for the purposes of Lewis 's argument , we have to see that they present a differing picture . |
| 14 | If we consider only the superficial elements of these changes in society , and deal with the problem purely at the level at which the Bill deals with it , we shall not do justice to the House or to the people of this country . |
| 15 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 16 | In fact , however , it turns out that if we have only the former of these two features , that is , gliding to , all the diphthongs which are ( -gliding to ) can be distinguished from each other in terms of their beginnings , using the features we have already introduced . |
| 17 | St Albans is a good example of this type , if we think away the large block of building that lies between the present market place and the street called Chequer Street that lies behind . |
| 18 | Indeed , if we leave only the slightest sign of our passing we should be satisfied . |
| 19 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 20 | If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like . |
| 21 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 22 | Whether we consider just the two cases of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas or the total of four cases there was a significant ( p=0.0070 and p=0.0034 , respectively ) excess of cases in Seascale in this period . |
| 23 | ‘ But we want all the complications down in black and white before we switch on the green light , ’ said Mr Wright . |
| 24 | We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values . |
| 25 | When we pass away the direct line will end . ’ |
| 26 | The logic of the exercise becomes apparent when we observe how the same behavioural detail is used in different ritual contexts . |
| 27 | ‘ At first , we were apprehensive about the process of signing , then it was the same about deals in Europe and now I think Brian will be helpful when we sort out the American side . |
| 28 | Lizaveta once mended his clothes : when we puzzle over the chance-induced actuality of her murder being so largely left to speak for itself we are creating a false problem by the inertness of our own metaphor . |
| 29 | If it is sensible to ask this question it has an answer — even though we have not the faintest idea what that answer is — we simply label it ‘ God ’ . |
| 30 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |