Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we may come to the third proposition of this book : THE SEDIMENTARY PILE AT ANY ONE PLACE ON THE EARTH 'S SURFACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TINY AND FRAGMENTARY RECORD OF VAST PERIODS OF EARTH HISTORY . |
| 2 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 3 | Then we thought we should nip over the next craggy bit to get a better view . |
| 4 | Okay and that sh we should have in the next day or two . |
| 5 | And that 's something we must do before the next meeting so that I can answer the questions , cos we do n't really know at this moment . |
| 6 | John Nef , in his Wiles Lectures of 1956 , concluded that , if we seek the origins of our modern quantitative-mindedness , we must concentrate on the last decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | Now we must look to the next stage of development . |
| 8 | Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity . |
| 9 | Setting these and other tricks and experiments aside , we must turn to the second of the two chief methods of covering a book which , oddly enough , is by binding it . |
| 10 | So this group of fifteen here that 's your five pound between you and then we 'll go onto the second group of fifteen people and they could have the second five pound and the third and the fourth and so on . |
| 11 | We 'll skip over the next verses for a few moments ; let's turn to another set of pages of the newspaper to see the message from the foreign correspondents about alliances — verses 14 to 19 . |
| 12 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
| 13 | I 'm always saying , right I 'm going to bed now and you say you know well we 'll wait till the next one then , we 'll wait you know and it 's it 's it is really . |
| 14 | I have n't really asked you very many questions so I 'll , I 'll ask you a question which sets us up for a programme we might do in the next series , having discussed the wedding , next the honeymoon ! |
| 15 | And that 's how it started and it was really just you know we said we 'd do a bit of fund raising and I think the men were pretty sceptical of you know they thi they thought we might fight over the first tin of beans or whatever . |
| 16 | We were both disappointed but Nellie said we could wait until the next time . |
| 17 | So we thought we 'd walk to the next stop , and then we see this bag on the floor . |
| 18 | Its most striking answer in International Relations has been systems theory , which we shall examine in the next chapter . |
| 19 | You should also note , in using hedging and qualifying expressions , that they will affect the overall tone or REGISTER of your essay ( as we shall examine in the next chapter ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I can not guarantee we shall legislate in the next session since one never can — it is always understood that a final decision is taken nearer the Queen 's speech , ’ Mr Lang said |
| 21 | British imperial and industrial success appeared unlimited , but in fact was already being compromised by long-term processes of economic and political change , which we shall outline in the next two sections . |
| 22 | They favoured unitary authorities for most of England though , as we shall explain in the next chapter , this recommendation was never implemented . |
| 23 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 24 | Daraprim ( pyrimethamine ) , a very different substance , evolved some years later from research of more general significance , to which we shall return in the next chapter . |
| 25 | As we have already mentioned , and as we shall reiterate in the next chapter , the distinction between these two forms of insanity is probably more a matter of psychiatric convenience than aetiological reality . |
| 26 | Hence Behaviouralism , the version of a more general behaviourism specific to International Relations , which we shall meet in the next chapter , is commonly spoken of as a Positive approach and often contrasted with Realism on this score . |
| 27 | Some products and places provide a few exceptions to this pattern , as we shall discover in the next chapter , and there were considerable , if patchy and delayed , efforts towards ‘ re-industrialization ’ ( Chapter 10 ) , which created the estimated increase of manufacturing employment across all regions of the North from 1987 to 1989 , averaging 1.4 per cent , probably arrested by 1990 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Spirit is no less than the personal , moral , active power of the Lord God , and for the further revelation of his nature we must await Act Two , the coming of Jesus , to which we shall turn in the next chapter . |
| 30 | As we shall discuss in the next chapter , there is a lot more work to be done before the causal process underlying this relationship is laid bare : we do not know whether it is through buying a better diet or better medical care , for example , that richer countries improve their life expectancy . |