Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where once we ruled , now we serve . |
| 2 | Where once we had Tizwas and The Tube , we now have Bob and Paula 's Big Breakfast and The Word . |
| 3 | Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more , |
| 4 | Where sometimes we had the back of the heads and |
| 5 | Nothing particular follows from the fact that he visits them once a month , except perhaps we infer that he has a close relationship with them . |
| 6 | Although personally we believe this to be of only secondary importance , its probable role in motivating innovative acts can not be ignored . |
| 7 | Not specifically other than obviously we do n't know at the moment |
| 8 | It 's a slightly different way of looking at neuron networks than perhaps we 've seen before . |
| 9 | Their knowledge of the area may be slight , it may be greater than perhaps we think , but they will not be able to tell the Chief Constable what to do and that is the glory of our system . |
| 10 | In somewhat more precise terms than above we define the radiant exitance of a surface to be the radiation reflected by the surface in W. Curran consequently derives two dimensionless terms called reflectance : — |
| 11 | Consequently , more often than not we have exchanged old rote for new . |
| 12 | Life on the margins characterises the Christian church in advanced industrial societies , and more often than not we do not even notice it . |
| 13 | As we move into the single market , it is more important than ever we keep our inflation level at or below those of our competitors . |
| 14 | Now more than ever we need the help of our friends ’ . |
| 15 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
| 16 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although once we had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to ‘ high ’ to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 17 | Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters . |
| 18 | Next day we went ashore near Kapp Lee on Edgeøya , and had a long walk up through Rosenbergdalen , a fine valley which was much more vegetated than any we had so far seen . |
| 19 | The light in mid-river was silver , and the current stronger than any we had seen in Egypt . |
| 20 | ‘ Much worse than any we 've had , ’ he shouted . |
| 21 | But as he says , our planet has managed to come through worse cataclysms than any we have so far invented , and there are always winners . |
| 22 | The way the long folds follow the lean of the body instead of falling vertically is a primitive touch ( offset by the charming observation of the skirt-edge caught on the lifted heel ) , but the treatment of the face seems to fix the work later than any we have so far looked at . |
| 23 | ( This may indeed reflect the fact that such adjectives seem in some way to constitute a more sophisticated manipulation of language than any we have seen in the adjectives discussed before ) . |
| 24 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 25 | Although originally we demanded experienced crews , many actually started their operations with PFF . |
| 26 | Well , it was more disappointing than even we had expected . |
| 27 | Contrary to rumour our Clubreps are not Masters of the Universe , although even we admit that one or two of them seem superhuman . |
| 28 | In the Christian case , it led to the periodization of history , a chronological method that we still use , although nowadays we approach history from a purely secular point of view . |
| 29 | I think it 's worked on the whole , although sometimes we have reservations . |
| 30 | Learning is therefore seen in terms of where the child is rather than where we hope he might be . |