Example sentences of "we [vb base] [to-vb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays , increasingly , we try to listen to such works as Acis and Galatea and the Cecilian Ode in the form in which Handel composed them ; to hear them through the prism of the classical musical consciousness is disconcerting . |
| 2 | This is the sort of cheap bitter jibe we love to say to each other when we feel wronged by life and attribute it to the lukewarm stew of Englishness . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's nothing we have to say to each other , ’ she protested with irritation , ‘ and I 'm not in the mood for any more of your accusations . |
| 4 | ‘ What can he imagine we have to say to each other ? ’ |
| 5 | In order to show that there are differences in language , therefore , we have to listen to many hours of tape-recorded speech , select variables that we believe may pattern in some way , and quantify . |
| 6 | We have to listen to these views as well as to those who complain . |
| 7 | We have to listen to these views as well as to the views of those who have reservations . |
| 8 | On the contrary , we have to assign to each level a peculiar time , relatively autonomous and hence relatively independent , even in its dependence , of the ‘ times ’ of the other levels … |
| 9 | We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach . |
| 10 | Yeah you see , bric-à-brac is n't so readily available now there are car boot sales so we have to resort to other means like the sponsored dog walk and er this type of thing . |
| 11 | I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er |
| 12 | A further consequence of having time zones is that , when we travel we have to adjust to local time in the new time zone . |
| 13 | Surely if the skills desert the greater proportion of working men and women ; fewer apprenticeships being served for the faster rewards of assembly ; we have to look to new industries with high labour content as opposed to high capital content for our long- term social remedies . |
| 14 | We have to come to some kind of deal with the trade unions in this complex interim period . |
| 15 | Where they still exist , it is important that they are not undermined ; but where they have withered away , we need to look to new models which take account of the changing patterns and forces in modern society . |