Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We walk over to a dusty square where over a hundred women , migrants from the countryside and recently closed state mines , are digging and paving with picks and shovels . |
| 2 | Eventually we drop down onto a steaming red earth track which cleaves a disappearing seam through dark green ribbons of corn . |
| 3 | ‘ We stand again at a historic crossroads … |
| 4 | We stand now at a turning point . |
| 5 | The Law Society will then make representations to the Lord Chancellor in support of the application , and we look forward to a favourable outcome when the Lord chancellor and the judges consider it . |
| 6 | We look forward to a long and growing relationship . ’ |
| 7 | Microvitec Plc , Bradford told the annual meeting that trading in the first three months of 1993 ran ahead of budget : the firm 's chairman , James Bailey , said ‘ we remain profitable throughout the group , and we look forward to a successful outcome to the current year . ’ |
| 8 | That is one more reason why , across the south , there has been a greater swing to Labour than in any other region and why , I must point out to the hon. Member for Thurrock ( Mr. Janman ) , who seeks to speak for my native county , we look forward to a smashing victory in his constituency at the next election . |
| 9 | We look forward to a generous settlement in a few weeks ' time when he might deal with the London Regional Transport anomaly which is afflicting us as Members representing outer London . |
| 10 | The Agency 's work strategy has , has been made available to members , and erm , I think if we look back to a previous Committee , where the er , information was provided , that we had been successful . |
| 11 | All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again . |
| 12 | When we draw up in a pitch-black stonewalled alley I wonder about his reaction . |
| 13 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 14 | We sum vertically at a given quantity because everyone consumes the same quantity of a public good by definition . |
| 15 | While we wish to avoid the pitfalls of many earlier studies on ‘ peaceful ’ or ‘ violent ’ societies by pulling out one behavioural feature as overridingly important in the analysis , we feel nevertheless that several issues of general interest have emerged , all of which are suggestive for the further understanding of societal peaceful coexistence , and we turn now to a brief consideration of some major points that are raised in the ethnographic papers . |
| 16 | When he 's eaten , we amble out into a grey Glasgow afternoon and head for the Kelvingrove gallery and museum , a £2 taxi ride . |
| 17 | Life is very crude , and bonnie Princes Street a dream , but we soldier on with a good grace . |
| 18 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 19 | Yes just before we leave however the question of what occur in my mind how you 're going to get from the present position in what appears to be a cost plus basis as we go along to a fixed cost basis and presumably the programme and I in in , are running as it were , are running effectively on the cost plus basis |
| 20 | This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together . |
| 21 | ‘ We go in by a roundabout route . |
| 22 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 23 | Time and space " in nature " are continuous ; we make them discontinuous for our human social purposes , and we do so in a great variety of different ways . |
| 24 | We start tonight with a big row that 's brewing over this little pill . |
| 25 | If we come up with a different game each time we do drama , what are we teaching the children ? |
| 26 | I am making the assumption that Kirov will be able to fill in some of the blanks once we come up with a workable number … probably no more than three . |
| 27 | In keeping with the analogy , Campbell holds that the variations are ‘ blind ’ — that we come up with a particular hypothesis is not determined by our current experience , is independent of whether the hypothesis is in fact going to prove true or successful , and is not a correction of previous unsuccessful hypotheses . |
| 28 | We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science . |
| 29 | We come now to a full post-production assemble edit in which the camera-original material is completely re-arranged as it is copied onto a second tape . |
| 30 | He dug deep into his jacket pocket , the grin fixed on his face and his bloodshot eyes regarding Beth with interest ; at length he drew a mangled envelope from his pocket and , flourishing it grandly , explained , ‘ This ‘ ere 's from a lad we come across in a foreign port . ’ |