Example sentences of "we [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 2 | Data-gathering should only be undertaken if we intend to act upon the information which has been accumulated . |
| 3 | We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct . |
| 4 | Against these dramatic changes , we intend to remain at the centre as an effective resource for the voluntary sector , and an important bridge between the sector and others . |
| 5 | We tend to refer to the World Church as something outside our particular constituency and we must n't forget that we must own the World Church . |
| 6 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 7 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 8 | We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role . |
| 9 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 10 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 11 | We forget to listen to the tone and the expression which are used , and these are vital because we tend to use words in a fraudulent manner . |
| 12 | Er , yes in the studies in nineteen ninety two er Eurofighter suggested that there could be reductions in the holdings of spares , rolled equipment and support items as a result of the more accurate forecasting which we expect to emerge from the logistics support analysis . |
| 13 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 14 | We , also , have to be able to goto Blackburn and come away with a result if we expect to advance in the Cup any further than the 4th round . |
| 15 | We propose to remain within the centre of the Community , framing the future of the Community in the interests of the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe . |
| 16 | In this chapter we propose to deal with the arrangement of passages for various combinations of woodwind and horns , but before doing this we will deal with the question of laying out full chords for the wind . |
| 17 | We want to go to the beach . ’ |
| 18 | General Secretary , you may be ready to dive in now , but we but we want to wait till the time is right . |
| 19 | Finally in this chapter we want to return to the source of all social science data , and the ultimate object of social scientific investigation , namely the members of society . |
| 20 | A horse 's degree of tolerance , or passivity , as opposed to impatience and irritability , will be very important in relation to what we want to do with the horse . |
| 21 | Anything else Now , just before we all er disappear , can I just quickly check what we want to do about the departure . |
| 22 | We must move on , because we 've got to have a commercial break , and then we want to check on the traffic . |
| 23 | We want to stay in the area as we both like walking , especially in the Dales , ’ said Audrey . |
| 24 | But this particular case Mr Deputy Speaker what we want to know from the minister is on these new boundaries what do we actually have to do ? |
| 25 | This is in addition to the letter written to the two of you and Tim , which you will recognize as being a step on the way to telling Tim that we want to reprogram from the top . |
| 26 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 27 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |
| 28 | ‘ In general terms we want to work with the industry and do our best to build a scheme based on existing systems . |
| 29 | They think , they seem to think that we want to think about the election all the time . |
| 30 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |