Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 2 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 3 | It will , sadly , be too late for many young people , whose lives have already been ruined ; but it could set the agenda for future generations who might even get society better organised than we did . |
| 4 | ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place . |
| 5 | This might well be modified if we made alternative , and possibly more realistic , assumptions . |
| 6 | But the picture can be modified if we insert into it the concept of a primeval Natural Man , who lacks the corrupting appurtenances of modern civilization , and is , on that account , closer to Paradise than ourselves . |
| 7 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 8 | Or , it might be added if we wish to consider history rather than geography , medieval Europeans represented women as sexually insatiable , while the Victorians represented them as naturally frigid , engaging in sex only as a marital duty . |
| 9 | Probably the Khan will give Nogai some work to do to keep him occupied until we return from Kinsai , but we could just as easily find the whole pack of them travelling with us to the capital . |
| 10 | It will be recalled that Peirce made no use of natural selection for similar purposes , and the difference between the projects of the two epistemologists will be clarified if we note why Quine can do so . |
| 11 | The effects of an intervention can be clarified if we compare the experiences of different groups , such as recipients and non-recipients of services . |
| 12 | The idea that knowledge could be firmly established and disputes resolved if we began from clear beginnings always remained with Hobbes . |
| 13 | ‘ Many of our recent troubles in retaining and maintaining public confidence might have been less severe and more easily solved if we had not begun to depart from the traditional relationships between ranks , ’ he added . |
| 14 | What those looked like we do not know , but they too were in bronze . |
| 15 | But nothing will really be solved until we have a government with the moral courage to ban driving entirely . |
| 16 | First of all , I expect most of you have heard that the proposed holiday to Torbay has had to be cancelled cos we did n't have enough support . |
| 17 | Divisions are always artificial and often misleading , but the material can be more easily considered if we make a distinction between nobility and townsmen . |
| 18 | ‘ I will be devastated if we do n't win , ’ he admits . |
| 19 | The children will be devastated if we have to cancel . |
| 20 | But it can not be solved unless we change people 's ideas about punishment . |
| 21 | We punish ourselves for ‘ failing ’ and believe that we can not be loved , desired or respected unless we get thin ; and punishment is also linked to profit . |
| 22 | I was absolutely devastated because we thought we had done nothing wrong . |
| 23 | After the cover had gone to press , the piece was dropped because we felt , on reflection , that the Maxwell family deserved at least one week of post-mortem respite . |
| 24 | Those remedies were added because we believe the payment of debt by manageable amounts to be more civilised than distraint . |
| 25 | But er if you had to paper the parlour was always papered in the ceiling but he kitchen was always whitewashed because we had these , if I explain to you these er fireplaces that er were n't very successful burning coal you know and the smoke would rise and before you knew where you were the ceiling was black again so sort of every so often up went the whitewash brush and you 'd whitewash the the ceiling . |
| 26 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 27 | Yes , there were er , I think there was one , two , three , four houses , four or five houses that were occupied before we came in , they were still building The Chantry incidently and er you know it was a it was quite a shock to us and the wife was a bit upset you know when having to , we came from Plymouth actually , Devon , and er the wife was a bit er down you know all the night travelling all night with the children |
| 28 | This gives rise to a number of interrelated problems , all of which need to be solved before we have a normal form . |
| 29 | ‘ There was a feeling of disappointment that we were held to a draw in Bruges and the atmosphere in the dressing room at the Olympiastadion only lifted after we heard that Marseille had suffered the same result against CSKA , ’ said McCall . |
| 30 | But since the initial motion was put forward by the policy and resources committee the question of local government review has become more prominent within the minds of this council and other councils across the country , and I think that issue needs to be addressed before we make as a cou , a council our final decision on the County Farms estate . |