Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks alright on the surface , you 're not going through a hassle at the moment , and our memories are short , fortunately and once we come into a calm patch the hassles of yesterday are quickly forgotten . |
| 2 | Cos we advertise in a special format do n't we ? |
| 3 | Yes , we had the , we had the six foot drop in February do you remember ? were cos we live on a steep hill and |
| 4 | This process can be traced back until we arrive at a single cell which was formed at the moment of conception by the fusion of two parental germ cells , i.e. one egg and one sperm cell . |
| 5 | After a brief stay there , we move south-west into the ubiquitous rural ocean until we arrive at a remarkable experimental settlement just off the main road between Kharkov and Poltava . |
| 6 | If we subscribe to a truth-conditional semantics , we shall therefore be forced to find a place for such meanings in pragmatic theory . |
| 7 | If we go for a single currency because we wish to protect , above all , the position of the City of London — still the premier financial centre of Europe — and if we also concede ground on foreign policy , in terms of majority decision making , and on defence policy by creating effectively a defence community , and if we allow the Commission to issue visitors ' visas , we shall be on a slippery slope . |
| 8 | This means risks of the order of , say , being gored by a buffalo if we shoot an arrow at it , being struck by lightning if we shelter under a lone tree in a thunderstorm , or drowning if we try to swim across a river . |
| 9 | This procedure may break down if we get to a single pair of edges , but we will see that this can happen only if a pair of corners has also to be exchanged . |
| 10 | In fact , we know that if we get into a confined space with the intention of defying gravity we are running a risk and have decided to tolerate it . |
| 11 | If we advance to a single currency and monetary and political union , will we , as Members of Parliament directly answerable to the electorate , have responsibility without authority ? |
| 12 | If we allow for a stochastic element in lifetime income , then individuals may respond rather differently , having for example a lower propensity to consume out of windfall or ‘ entrepreneurial ’ gains . |
| 13 | For example , with a file that is only 50 per cent packed , we must expect 21.31 per cent of the records not to be stored in their home record positions if we randomize to a specific address . |
| 14 | From the table and figure , it is clear that far fewer records will be displaced if we randomize to a multi-record bucket rather than to an individual record position . |
| 15 | If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths . |
| 16 | If we look at a random list of typical game structures we shall find that they reflect some of life 's common interactions and are obviously just as important in drama . |
| 17 | Whilst we realise that if we belong to a national organisation , there will be some additional cost to individual Institutes . |
| 18 | If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's because we live on a bad star , is n't it , Tess ? ’ he said through his tears . |
| 20 | We know , too , that we exist in the fourth dimension , time , because we live for a certain number of years ; besides , the fact that we can move in three dimensions implies our existence in the fourth , because movement requires time . |
| 21 | However , the content through which these mathematical skills are taught has a set of messages all of its own and because we live in a capitalist society we can easily be unaware of these messages — about the exploitation of labour , the sexism , the inequalities based on racism and social class — that are all a part of the ideology of capitalism . |
| 22 | To prevent the spread of infection ( and because we live in a throw-away society ) disposable needles are often used , although if your dog requires prolonged treatment your vet may keep a ‘ permanent ’ set especially for that purpose . |
| 23 | He can stay in the hospital till we decide on a safe house . |
| 24 | There is no logical starting point , since we bring to a literary text simultaneously two faculties , however imperfectly developed : our ability to respond to it as a literary work and our ability to observe its language . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , since we live in a capitalist society , the argument is an important one for those who would take up a correctionalist stance under it . |
| 26 | Arthur Scargill put it that ‘ Whilst we exist in a capitalist society we have to extract from that society the highest possible reward for the labour power that we sell , whilst at the same time trying to change the society . ’ |
| 27 | All except ( 6 ) have an introductory adverbial clause or phrase providing a point of orientation before we launch into a main clause . |
| 28 | Before we embark on a major explanatory exercise , however , we must be sure that the effect is truly causal , and not just the spurious result of joint association with a prior explanatory variable , as explained in chapter 12 . |
| 29 | A rest , a quick conflab and we decide to do another twenty miles and reach our tent before we stop for a long rest . |
| 30 | In short , when we hear of a peaceful society , we are likely to envision a society that is somehow the antithesis of the self-absorbed individualism of the modern urban-industrial world . |