Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now suppose we try to analyse : ( 5 ) I am the mother of Napoleon We can not assess the truth of this sentence without taking into account who the speaker is ; for ( 5 ) is true just in case the person uttering the sentence is indeed identical to the individual who is the mother of Napoleon , and false otherwise . |
| 2 | To work at that speed we ca n't even drink a cup of tea . |
| 3 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 4 | I 've got ta liaise with the information centre in the computer centre tomorrow see if there 's any guidelines we could probably use . |
| 5 | " Before , we were only a minority who complained , but with the association we wo n't stand for it any more . |
| 6 | thinking we 'll soon get them and save you carrying it tomorrow , then . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but if you do n't want the horse we ca n't pay you . ’ |
| 8 | Would find ears we 'd rather it did n't reach ? ’ |
| 9 | I often think that if we dressed in old Barbours and flat caps we would n't create so much antipathy . |
| 10 | Promise carrots we ca n't deliver , or use threats that are destructive and cruel . |
| 11 | ‘ P'raps we should n't encourage those dockers ’ and carmen 's union men ter use that back room fer their meetin 's , ’ Fred suggested despondently . |
| 12 | This is disappointing for such a theoretically sensitive technique , but we found that tissue itself potently inhibits the polymerase chain reaction if not adequately purified , and despite our spiking experiment we may not have abolished sample inhibition . |
| 13 | Now we only have football we can only take footballs in on Monday and Thursdays . |
| 14 | At the finish of the contest we can just about call Jacob the victor . |
| 15 | They say that if you , if it was n't for the shooting we would n't have any grouse or pheasants cos they would n't be preserved . |
| 16 | It 's by , by ever successively smaller , smaller steps we 'll eventually head ever towards absolute zero without ever getting there , that 's true . |
| 17 | The brief introduction to Piaget 's ideas in Chapter 2 , and our realization that as adult readers we can not read , say , an Ordnance Survey map , a machine drawing , or art forms from cultures not our own with anything like total understanding , should cause us to be cautious and questioning when presented with these assumptions . |
| 18 | Mother and I decided that in the interests of hygiene we could not take Father 's body into Chiguana , but must bury him where he lay . |
| 19 | Until we have such a conception we can not describe the original sensation to ourselves ; it is just a useless this , for the concept of the sensation has no content until the rules have been set up . |
| 20 | Certainly , preventive strategies and modern medicine will tend to counteract negative selective forces and will maintain the frequency of the thrifty genotype in human populations , but , as Neel soberly pointed out , ‘ efforts to preserve the diabetes genotype through this transient period of plenty are in the interests of mankind , ’ for some time in the future we may again be glad to have it . |
| 21 | We wait with interest to learn something of the results , and hope that in the future we wo n't be having to leave Beaulieu gas platform to starboard during Land Rover Cowes Week . |
| 22 | In the future we wo n't be able to just do things , we 'll have to experience them all the time . |
| 23 | In future we will not be accepting any similar adverts and we 'll be donating the revenue from this advert to the RSPCA . |
| 24 | In an attempt to reduce administration costs , in future we will only notify your drug control officials of positive test results . |
| 25 | In The Prelude we can easily detect a similar pattern imposed upon experience , though Wordsworth is describing a poetic rather than a Christian vocation ; and though he may appear to use religious vocabulary ( see again the discussion on pages 89–91 ) , he is expounding a secular philosophy . |
| 26 | No , no oh I agree people should n't let dogs foul on the pavement and in shopping places and things , cos it can be dangerous , but out in the woodlands if it was n't for all the animals we would n't have any green stuff , trees and bushes seagulls are up . |
| 27 | If it had not been for Adam 's quick eyes we might never have seen anything amiss . |
| 28 | The speech came over the wires so late and the sheets were so confused by the Post Office — which is usual in these cases — that without the precis we could not possibly have got the leader through in time for the first edition . |
| 29 | In any event , since this study is concerned with adjectives , and since , out of the considerable variety of adjectival constructions , very few involve equation we shall only seldom need to make any reference , in the following chapters , to structures built on this relation , whether combined with assignment or not . |
| 30 | Can the Minister allay my suspicions about this by assuring me that as a result of a few industrialists having contributed to the programme we shall not find the names of certain chairmen and managing directors appearing in the new year honours list ? |