Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to classical criminology we mostly behave in a rational manner . |
| 2 | A sort of cat and mouse game followed , especially going up the long hill , but we eventually settled on a dead heat . |
| 3 | In principle , no , we only act in a consultative and advisory way . |
| 4 | Just it was a beautiful day , so I said why not stay for an hour , so we got out , out , in , so we , as it is , , you know we just went round a little bit , and it 's very tidy and nice , biscuits . |
| 5 | ‘ Could n't we just apply for a long-term permit for him now ? ’ |
| 6 | In talking about a subject we generally refer to a given area of knowledge or to the contents of an information source of a given scope . |
| 7 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 8 | We finally settled for a modern house in a village three miles away , where I am still living . |
| 9 | ‘ We already operate in a competitive market and Lloyd 's is unlikely to make that much more difficult . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We already operate in a competitive market and Lloyd 's is unlikely to make that much more difficult . ’ |
| 11 | Politics , for us , is evolutionary rather than axiomatic ; we recognize , in working toward a perfectly just state , that we already belong to a different one . |
| 12 | A program could allow the teacher to start at this level and offer as its flexibility the opportunity to introduce a random element into the problem and also to have varying levels of ‘ noise ’ fed in , so that we gradually move towards a suitable environment for real problem-solving . |
| 13 | We live in hope that John Hume 's mission to the Provos will succeed , like we always wish for a good summer . |
| 14 | We do not in scientific experience move from an external world of things to an abstract world of ideas ; we always move within a single world of quantitative ideas . |
| 15 | Over there we do work over there , we do work here but er , we always work in a relaxing way over there but here always tension . |
| 16 | We always look for a local engineering partner , with whom we can build up a strong working relationship , to provide knowledge of local practices and statutory requirements . |
| 17 | We still live in a dangerous and turbulent world . |
| 18 | I 'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam . |
| 19 | Because we , even if we ever came to a final close if |
| 20 | We also looked for a geographical spread of writers . |
| 21 | This year , we also insisted on a substantial strengthening of the nature of the health warnings put on packets and on any tobacco advertising . |
| 22 | We also take in a considerable quantity of aluminium in certain foods , but this is normally in a ‘ non-bioavailable ’ form . |
| 23 | We originally started with a six-session package but later increased its length to eight sessions . |
| 24 | By 1920 , 7 million workers had gained an average six and a half hour reduction in the working week — the equivalent , almost , of what we now see as a full day 's work . |
| 25 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |
| 26 | We now understand in a general way how strong any particular solid ought to be and why it falls short of that strength in practice . |
| 27 | We now live in a global village … a simultaneous happening . |
| 28 | In a sense we now live in a forgiven world . |
| 29 | Furthermore , when we do not notice an example , we often begin with a vague feeling that the text is poorly written and have to work quite hard to say just what is wrong with it . |
| 30 | We here came to a central issue in all our discussions . |