Example sentences of "[conj] we [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 2 | Feature analysis is an attractively simple way of explaining visual perception but , it turns out , ‘ features ’ are much more complex than we first thought . |
| 3 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 4 | Elite theory accounts of state organization are developed and detailed , and we first review five aspects where the approach has made a distinctive contribution : the role of political leaderships in liberal democracies , the predominance of bureaucracies in shaping policy-making , the reasons for fragmentation ( or centralization ) of governmental tiers and sectors , the role of law , and the strong policy connections between government activities and major economic interests . |
| 5 | We certainly can make no statements about economic welfare unless we first convert national income into real national income per capita . |
| 6 | We we it 's it 's always difficult in January to say how many people are going to be there to take part , but we last year it was about about five hundred I think . |
| 7 | And now when we first start off er I know what it 's like . |
| 8 | The river we had crossed was to our left and was not , as we first thought , melt water from the spout ; that formed a river to our right . |