Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I know it is sometimes bad to be very narrow in your outlook but I think it was a good idea to focus on , we consider as a pretty high priority and make as much progress as we can , without forgetting other things and try and teach ourselves to do something within a fairly short space of time . |
| 2 | We begin with a more general discussion of all forms of imperfect competition and monopoly power . |
| 3 | When we turn to A Very British Coup , it is clear that the approaches which allowed mainstream critics to exclude any ‘ extraneous talk of politics ’ in reviews of Distant Voices , Still Lives could not be applied here , for this is a film which does little else than talk of politics . |
| 4 | Because of the perceived importance of the Munn approach and because it represents a parallel exercise at defining a national framework , we turn to a more detailed examination of it next . |
| 5 | In short , we would wish to order and organize what we do in a morally respectable and defensible way . |
| 6 | Having consumed two lengthy paragraphs of structural information , the reader is assured , " All this provides useful information which we need to keep in mind as we move towards a more linguistic analysis of the poem " . |
| 7 | We live in a tremendously reactionary era . |
| 8 | But I would hope we live in a more enlightened age . |
| 9 | We live in a very unequal society |
| 10 | We live in a very competitive age . ’ |
| 11 | All adults need to be able to cope with diversity and to expect variety as we live in a highly varied world . |
| 12 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 13 | Editors might argue that because we live in a highly competitive world in which authors , readers , and advertisers can all go elsewhere with ease we are already sufficiently accountable . |
| 14 | So we will be able to locate the residents of whichever home we choose within a very tight geographical area , giving them choices as to where they go . |
| 15 | So we come to a somewhat catastrophic attitude to evolution . |
| 16 | Now we come to a very attractive idea . |
| 17 | Thus we come to a more general and tenable version of dualism : that every writer necessarily makes choices of expression , and that it is in these choices , in his " way of putting things " , that style resides . |
| 18 | Mr Hardiman took off his spectacles again , and waved them in the air as he continued : ‘ Now we come to a more problematic matter . |
| 19 | ‘ We come of a very long-lived family on both sides , but soon after Charlie 's death my father died , and then my mother , also . ’ |
| 20 | We check into a very fine motel . |
| 21 | ‘ We ask a blessing of you , O Lord , as we go out on the beaches , and we pray for a really neat time and some big swells . |
| 22 | ‘ We work in a very haphazard way , ’ muses Jim , the mixing desk whizz who used to be in , um , Altered Images . |
| 23 | Our concerns arise in relation to the new settlement of fourteen hundred households which we see as a quite different animal to the dispersed development proposed in Harrogate , Craven and so on . |