Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds . |
| 2 | Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . |
| 3 | As instances of mockery we can cite the reaction of the court of Navarre to the Pageant of the Nine Worthies ( Love 's Labour 's Lost , V.ii.484ff. ) , or that of Athens to ‘ Pyramus and Thisbe ’ ( Midsummer Night 's Dream , V.i.106ff . ) . |
| 4 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 5 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 6 | When we had association we 'd stand around and talk , or sit and watch telly or have a bath and wash our hair . |
| 7 | Thanks very much er , President er , to mark the occasion of the launching of the British er , Boxers ' Association we 'd like to make a little er , presentation to Barry , who 's the President of that Association and erm who you know , of course , is the Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sport and the Professional Boxers ' Association has got the honour of erm , immediately being part of that er , body and has the assistance , of course , of er , the many people involved there . |
| 8 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 9 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 10 | But neither of these was close to the grief we would have experienced in the real presence of death . |
| 11 | Because in fact if we 're holding far too much stock we ought to do something about reducing it because it 's all |
| 12 | Since all mammals evolved from a common ancestral stock we would expect their brains and bodies to have large numbers of common features which could be the basis of a reasonable level of extrapolation ( Sarnat and Netsky 1981 ) . |
| 13 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 14 | Erm I 'd liked to discuss the point about what aid we can give to try and promote the stability and the event of prosperity of the country . |
| 15 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 16 | On the gain side we might find that a choice which seems very attractive does actually miss out on an important priority . |
| 17 | On the supply side we can identify long- and short-term influences . |
| 18 | Therefore on one side we must assert the authority of the Bible over man and the Church , and not the authority of man and the Church over the Bible . |
| 19 | On the other side we must assert freedom of enquiry . |
| 20 | you go over the clubs on the other side we used to go up |
| 21 | Since most of the parameters here will normally be constant during a given experiment we can speak of the blackout level for a given light intensity . |
| 22 | For our third experiment we must move into the quantum world . |
| 23 | There are other principles of reasoning we could mention . |
| 24 | By the same reasoning we must conclude that K could plausibly have arisen , directly by a single change , from something slightly different again , which we may call K " . |
| 25 | ‘ Last summer it was the terrace after that we restored the pond area and next spring we 'll do the tennis court . ’ |
| 26 | A few months later Sanders recalled that Lloyd George had " prophesied great unpopularity for the government during the period of demobilisation and said if we had an election in the Spring we might get a Bolshevik Government . |
| 27 | With the spring we could begin the long slow climb out of the recession . |
| 28 | If this initial survey proves useful and gets good feedback we shall continue and do a series on all our local rivers . |
| 29 | Secondly she said there must be a change from the habit of dualism to , what she described as interconnectialism We must see a relationship between things . |
| 30 | All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock . |