Example sentences of "what we shall [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is what we shall do . ’ |
| 2 | As I said to you yesterday , I have no idea what we shall do without you when you finally decide to depart . |
| 3 | These past actions often can not be undone ; we have to think what we shall do . |
| 4 | Goodness knows what we shall do if it needs any alterations , since we have discovered that Ruth is not a needlewoman , and I have far too much to do before we leave . ’ |
| 5 | and I tell you what we shall do we shall change arms |
| 6 | What we shall do instead is to restrict the definition to one selected sentence type which happens to work , namely , that represented by the schema A is f(X) , where f(X) is an indefinite expression , and represents the minimum syntactic elaboration of a lexical item X for it to function as a complement of the verb to be . |
| 7 | What we shall do is solve where only terms linear in are retained . |
| 8 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 9 | It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do . |
| 10 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 11 | That is what we shall do . |
| 12 | I do n't want to leave the country , but I do n't know what we shall do . |
| 13 | ‘ We told the public meeting a fortnight ago that we would report back with all the facts and this is what we shall do , ’ said committee spokesman John Daley yesterday . |
| 14 | but , then again with Eileen you never know with Eileen she says well it 's , it depends on our Sandra she said I 'm not building up on it cos you know what she is , but she says if you know she might want Alan to come and then she goes on and , and then , then she says I do n't know what we shall do really if we do come , she says cos if Eileen wo n't , she 's work , really ca n't come if Alan comes |
| 15 | It is clearly Labour 's vision to have high tax rates , but it is the hope of the people of this country to have the lowest possible tax rates , and that is what we shall offer . |
| 16 | What are called ‘ proofs for the existence of God ’ are not attempts to show that there must be a divine kind of thing ( we have no concept of a divine kind of thing ) , they just seek to show that if and when all other questions were answered we would still be left with this mystery : and this is what we shall call ‘ God ’ . |
| 17 | … a rational maximizer of his ends in life , his satisfactions — what we shall call his self interest … |
| 18 | Although the use of everyday common-sense beliefs is usually not only unsystematic and inadequate but also often contradictory , if we look more closely at common sense it is likely such explanations of the world are based on what we shall call here ‘ individualistic ’ and/or ‘ naturalistic ’ assumptions . |
| 19 | Another example of such openness is provided by what we shall call the unit-type ambiguity . |
| 20 | The most fundamental structural relation of any hierarchy — without it there would be no hierarchy at all — is what we shall call the relation of dominance . |
| 21 | The simplest form of remedy for the uncertainty of the regime of primary rules is the introduction of what we shall call a ‘ rule of recognition ’ . |
| 22 | The remedy for the static quality of the regime of primary rules consists in the introduction of what we shall call ‘ rules of change ’ . |
| 23 | You decide the question type by concentrating on what we shall call the " instruction part " of the question . |
| 24 | The first of these relations is what we shall call qualification . |
| 25 | Such aspects are conventional but non-truth-conditional elements of sentence-meaning , e.g. what we shall call conventional implicatures , and ( at least on many theories ) presuppositions , and perhaps even aspects of illocutionary force ( concepts expounded in the Chapters below ) . |
| 26 | We shall miss his humour , his smile , his sometimes quite brilliant prose and always remember that if the name was mentioned it always brought a smile , and that is what we shall remember . |
| 27 | We may thus envisage a gradient of what we shall term establishment of senses . |
| 28 | Certain aspects of word-meaning , however , are difficult to reconcile with this view : particularly awkward are what we shall term sense-spectra . |
| 29 | The history of Marxist anthropology since The Origin has , as a result , been the difficult , painful , and incomplete recovery of Marxism for pre-capitalist social formations , and the story of this process is what we shall consider in the second half of this book . |
| 30 | And if he does n't believe me , well , we shall have to see what we shall see , wo n't we ? ’ |