Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're wondering if we should send Sîan to La Sainte Union . ’ |
| 3 | Cameron Ward , a manager at the North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton , north London , said : ‘ We must give priority to emergencies . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And then the Great Vale , with the Great River , which we must follow north to Talisker . ’ |
| 5 | Two of the issues which stand out most clearly from staff responses to the assessment are ( i ) that we must provide training in the health and safety aspects of workstation use , and ( ii ) that we must provide information to staff on the procedures for eyesight testing for those staff who spend long periods in front of display screens . |
| 6 | We know that the British Medical Association say it 's under-funded to the tune of six billion pounds but we 'll say what we said before we took control of this Council , we 'll open the books and we 'll direct resources to priorities . |
| 7 | In the next two sections , we shall draw attention to effects on interpretation and consider informally the basis of the distinction ; in 2.4 and 2.5 we look at the grammatical consequences , and in the remainder of the chapter consider why the distinction may sometimes be hard to appreciate and argue that it is nevertheless quite generally available for the attributive adjectival construction . |
| 8 | It will be held in a central location , perhaps Leeds or York , and we shall send details to alumni within reasonable travelling distance and to anyone who ticks the box on the questionnaire to say they are interested . |
| 9 | We would issue slides to PS staff and let them run the charging system themselves . |
| 10 | Then we would sail south to Easter Island to explore the mysterious statues before going to the mutineers ' refuge on Pitcairn Island . |
| 11 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 12 | We will ensure access to clinics providing health promotion , counselling , family planning and screening services , particularly for cervical and breast cancer , and advice on maternity and child care . |
| 13 | We will reduce cruelty to animals within Britain and Europe . |
| 14 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 15 | The British Rail chairman , Sir Bob Reid , said last night : ‘ We have contacted Mr Knapp for urgent discussions and BR management are meeting him tomorrow with a view to finding a way through this so that we can avoid disruption to passengers . |
| 16 | Bishops , archdeacons , canons , civil servants , monks : these are the men whose lives we may study in the sources , whom we can meet face to face in their own writings , the educated , privileged clergy . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |
| 18 | Using the parametric programming procedure of Section 6.3 , we can connect T to T by a sequence of tableaux , each obtained by pivoting from its predecessor . |
| 19 | But it is difficult to see how we can have sensitivity to plants and rivers , trees and ecosystems if we have no sensitivity to the caged animal , or the animal undergoing product-testing or about to be slaughtered . |
| 20 | I believe that Wales is much better placed to ride out the worldwide recession than it has been and I can give the hon. Gentleman this pledge : I and my ministerial colleagues will continue to do everything that we can to attract investment to Wales . |