Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We want to research whether this campaign over a short period of time can improve this situation . ’
2 We want to stress that this vision is designed to stimulate thought and debate .
3 We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period .
4 You could choose to portray the positive achievements we 've witnessed or some aspect of that .
5 Just to remind everybody that we 've decided that this year we were n't going to put pressure on people .
6 I think we 've reviewed that this morning , early and we are doing quite well on forms , but do we need any further action on that ?
7 We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future .
8 We have seen that each system was forced to delay making a decision about the identity of a stretch of sound .
9 Several times , in bars , glancing up from our Bud or our Molson or our Miller , we have seen that same shot on the mounted TV : like a eugenic cross between swordfish and stingray , the helicopter twirls upward from the ocean and crouches grimly on the deck of the aircraft-carrier , ready to fight .
10 However , we have seen that this approach can be criticized on the grounds that the discourse structure of the interview is still present and that attempts to obscure the nature of the speech event are likely to lead in practice to confusion and difficulty .
11 In the north we have seen that this village planning may have taken place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries .
12 We have seen that this strategy had addressed the relation between certain population habits ( what Farr had defined as the vital statistics of marriage and divorce , fertility and fecundity ) and the nation 's economic prosperity , health and happiness .
13 We have seen that this information is really only useful if it can be obtained accurately and consistently across writers .
14 Finally , while we certainly agree that the policy of the law in regard to the formalities for the creation and transmission of interests in land should be upheld , we have to acknowledge that that policy has been substantially modified by the developments to which we have referred …
15 By mutagenesis we have shown that this residue constitutes part of the DNA-PK recognition site and is required for DNA-PK phosphorylation of the Jun-Core protein .
16 We have shown that these word matches occur so frequently that competing hypotheses can not be pursued and compared over the length of the entire utterance .
17 In terms of a common form of theism , we have suggested that those world religions we have examined are all fundamentally monotheistic — they believe in one God .
18 As we have seen , it is hard to draw the line between a conscious human being and a conscious machine likewise , we have to accept that any entity possessed of consciousness is in reality a living organism — whatever its physical characteristics .
19 In a country in which education up to the age of 16 has become universal and compulsory , and education up to the age of 19 an option for everyone , we have to recognize that this education must be designed to meet pupils ' needs .
20 We have to assume that this point is in some sense typical .
21 Whilst originally described as a universal buffer for restriction enzymes , we have found that all modification enzymes required for cDNA synthesis have close to 100% activity in 0.5 KGB buffer .
22 The cards are now larger than in previous years and we have found that this size proved very popular .
23 We have found that this sort of discussion requires a certain amount of structure , but a great deal of flexibility , and is best carried out in environments other than our normal working environment .
24 It 's not just an event in history two thousand years ago , something that happened way back i in a back water of the Roman empire , that 's not the really important issue for you and for me today it 's , the important thing is that you and I have to stand in that same place that Pilate stood and we have to make that same decision , what will I do then with Jesus that is called the Christ ?
25 In order to advance the debate about God , we need to presume that this debate is between ‘ meaning ’ theists and ‘ meaning ’ atheists .
26 This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers .
27 make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities .
28 We need to ensure that this situation does not develop .
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