Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall comprehension of this order requires either a complete assimilation of all relevant information on the lines described by Descartes , or an instant of penetrating insight that we may classify as a Gift from God . |
| 2 | It will be a more competitive one but one that we ought to welcome as a company . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Metzinger , Le Fauconnier , Delaunay , Léger and I , ’ writes Gleizes , ‘ had decided to show at the next Salon des Indépendants … but … we should show as a group , everyone was agreed . ’ |
| 4 | And I think what we should get as a Parish Council , is an assurance from Biffa , that they , or from the District Council , from Severn Trent , really , if they are the people that contracted out the work , that a re any resident in Southwell who , who is afflicted by sewerage problems is going to get immediate and urgent attention . |
| 5 | The Green Paper which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health published this summer , entitled ’ The Health of the Nation ’ , suggests , as part of the consultation about health targets , that we should adopt as a target a further reduction , within the time span of the White Paper , when it is published , of that proportion of the population who smoke from 33 per cent . |
| 6 | Whether we should include as a consideration whether this particular eighth new settlement in this particular sector would have the capacity to expand beyond two thousand and si In saying that I 'm conscious that we have ducked because as a panel we have to duck . |
| 7 | I think we should know as a service |
| 8 | Given that we need to ensure that we should have as a priority the conservation of resources and energy efficiency , whatever the amount of reserves of oil and gas , what progress has been made by the Department and the Treasury in discussions with the European Community on the value added tax harmonisation talks with a view to the introduction of a lower level of VAT for environmentally friendly technologies which conserve resources ? |
| 9 | Now we have the opportunity to be more proactive , we 'll act as a clearing house for standard models from various parts of the company , and will develop our own standard models . |
| 10 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that most Conservative Members accept that , while some taxes may fall on income and others on spending , there is scope for a modest tax to fall on what we might describe as the amenity of property . |
| 11 | We could end as a line of pantun . |
| 12 | ‘ We could go as a crowd . ’ |
| 13 | I think what we 'll do , just start by writing up what we could describe as a sort of theoretical er , supply function . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm after a Brian Clough-style dynasty , which we could use as a base on which to build everything else . ’ |
| 15 | Once again , we shall take as a starting point the ordinary use of the word " style " . |
| 16 | They will rightly look to a Labour Government who will not look at the matter in the narrow economic calculus that we have heard from Conservative Members but will recognise that , unless we are prepared to accept the role of women in the labour force , we will fail as an economy to receive and achieve our full potential . |
| 17 | In a new book on the history of the IRA by Conor Foley ( Legion of the Rearguard , Pluto ) , Mr Adams , in a telling phrase , remarks : ‘ We will move as a movement or we will not move at all . ’ |
| 18 | And the spirit of the exercise is that we will work as a team , and the most cost-effective procedure will exist . |
| 19 | ( Normally the one that we will use as the background colour for the whole screen . ) |
| 20 | In effect , this occurs by what we can regard as a self-timing of the system . |
| 21 | Lewis had his two slender volumes of verse , and Tolkien his learned edition of Sir Gawain and the Green knight and his article on Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meith-had ( which combines deep linguistic learning with a justly famous account of the world of this West Midland prose writer which we can recognize as a foretaste of the Hobbit 's native Shire ) . |
| 22 | ‘ If the track authority is less cost-efficient than it might be , it 's going to shackle what we can do as an operator , ’ he says . |
| 23 | He indicated that Soviet leaders had themselves to clarify their agenda for economic and political reform and added that " if they do … we can serve as a catalyst " . |
| 24 | We can use as an example the mining of xyzkqu , which is used in zyxuqk machines . |
| 25 | To put Saussure 's point in a different way , we can take as an illustration an area of language to which he did not pay particular attention , but which subsequent theorists have considered significant : that of colour terminology . |
| 26 | We can take as an example Strathtay bus company in Tayside , which is to be privatised and which has only 461 employees . |
| 27 | His target of attack here is positivism , which we can understand as the identification of natural science with knowledge itself . |
| 28 | ‘ There are areas in which we can act as a sounding board in general business issues and where the accountant ca n't ’ said . |