Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] today " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , are we painting them today ? |
| 2 | In medieval times the word ‘ road ’ denoted something rather different to the meaning we give it today . |
| 3 | ‘ Will we see you today at Fortingall , Donald ? ’ |
| 4 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 5 | The symptoms of psychosis as we know them today appear in all literatures from the earliest times . |
| 6 | IBM Corp 's Digital Domain Inc special effects — FX as they are known in the trade — company , which brings the company together with writer , director and producer James Cameron , Academy Award winning character creator Stan Winston and special visual effects studio executive Scott Ross ( CI No 2,116 ) will locate its facilities in the Los Angeles area and plans to combine the latest digital technology with a unique ‘ creator interactive ’ philosophy , IBM says , offering a full range of special visual effects services for feature films , television , commercials and simulator attractions ; high resolution moving images will fundamentally change applications and their development as we know them today , IBM reckons . |
| 7 | The Record Offices of these counties possess a considerable number of awards made by the commissioners , often accompanied by a map showing the new lay-out of the parish , with the fields and roads marked out pretty much as we know them today . |
| 8 | Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) . |
| 9 | He became a key figure in the early 1970s when the public employment service was modernised and Jobcentres as we know them today were first established . |
| 10 | Will it be the organised medical practitioners as we know them today or those who are practising in the area ? |
| 11 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 12 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 13 | Perhaps the tennis circuit as we know it today does not suit the British temperament . |
| 14 | Moreover , just as natural science as we know it today is , to an important extent , a product of seventeenth-century philosophical ideas , so one of the pillars of the orthodox scientific establishment in England now is the Royal Society . |
| 15 | A list of Cornish saints recently studied in an early tenth-century manuscript , where in several cases the saints are listed according to geographical contiguousness of parochial dedications , suggests that the parochial structure of Cornwall , as we know it today , was already in existence at that time . |
| 16 | ‘ The science of chemistry as we know it today is in the throes of revolution . |
| 17 | Scion of an ancient family of Scottish gentry , the Stirlings of Keir , he was the founder of what was to become the Special Air Service Regiment as we know it today , although with typical modesty he always insisted on sharing the credit with others . |
| 18 | Historically local government in England and Wales is a fascinating subject and from its study it will be found that local government whilst not quite as we know it today , existed for centuries before the first parliament was ever convened . |
| 19 | However , it was the establishment of colonies and overseas trading companies that necessitated the development of international banking , i.e. overseas branch networks , as we know it today . |
| 20 | The legend enshrines a popular belief that it was Dom Pérignon who created sparkling wine and invented Champagne as we know it today . |
| 21 | These lesser varieties are not widely planted , nor do they contribute significantly to the quality and reputation of Champagne as we know it today , but they exist and do possess a certain curiosity value and are therefore dealt with in this chapter . . |
| 22 | Almost certainly these were table wines for local use or intended as supplies for ships — not madeira wine as we know it today . |
| 23 | On extended trips to their native land they produced vigorous and fluent drawings and sketches of their dramatic and mountainous country using all their collected expertise to capture and convey that image or Norway by which we know it today . |
| 24 | Fascinating museum outlining the development of the city as we know it today . |
| 25 | It is fair to state that Christianity as we know it today derives ultimately not from Jesus 's time , but from the Council of Nicaea . |
| 26 | The New Testament , as we know it today , is largely a product of Nicaea and other Church councils of the same epoch . |
| 27 | but it was not until the introduction of the Vandervell British Formula Three Championship in 1979 that the Championship , as we know it today , was born . |
| 28 | Local administration , as we know it today , was itself the product of social action to a considerable extent . |
| 29 | However , the potential for desktop publishing as we know it today was born . |
| 30 | Town planning as we know it today was created out of the initiatives taken to tackle the problems of the late Victorian city , particularly its housing and environmental inequalities ; the late twentieth-century urban crisis is once again calling for a re-assembly of skills and methods of approach which cut across established ways of doing things . |