Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun] we [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's time we had ministers who will listen to Social Services and in a few months time we shall have them , a Labour Government . |
| 2 | In a few days time we 'll be sitting him on top of a bonfire and standing around in the cold night while we light up the sky with loads of colour . |
| 3 | IT , OT and CTT policies do not include a ‘ more specifically insured ’ exclusion so even if an expensive ring for example , which may be lost or stolen , is separately insured under a Home or All Risks policy we can still only deal with this on an independent liability basis . |
| 4 | We 'll do er we 'll do the traffic and trains and planes in full after the er main news in ten minutes time we 'll check the whole lot then . |
| 5 | In about ten minutes time we 'll be catching up with all the local football league results . |
| 6 | At 2 or 3 hours notice we may have to go to Manchester ; the women ca n't do that . |
| 7 | t to get it , is just right because i i in twelve months time we might have to tender for every job . |
| 8 | From a 1991 stand-point , in five years time we should possibly be looking towards SPARC-based workstations running from a large multi-user Unix file-server , but this is an area where rapid technological change requires planning to be a continuously updated process . |
| 9 | ‘ In 10 to 15 years time we could have thousands of people suicidally depressed because they took Ecstasy earlier in life . |
| 10 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 11 | So , so , two months time we should know where we 're going ? |