Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] we " in BNC.

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1 Well I was er Er the school days from were from er eleven to fourteen and er tt of course during that time we had the opportunity to try and pass for grammar .
2 ‘ Avast , ye swabs , ’ she shouted , astonished by the hoarseness of her voice , ‘ belay yeselves an' man the mizzen-mast. 'T IS a stormy course for Far Tortuga we 're sailin' an' the cap'n 'll not rest easy at the bottom of the sea 'til the treasure be ours ! ’
3 As we adjusted birth weight for gestational age we can say that environment in utero is an important factor in explaining the association between birth weight and lung function .
4 In our consideration of the interview for scientific enquiry we must always remind ourselves that the survey is merely a particular tool for collecting information which is deemed relevant for the testing of a hypothesis which stems from theory .
5 Sometimes this could be rather deflating to our egos as we enjoyed handling our ships , keeping them smart and clean and maintaining all the equipment and machinery in good operational order in readiness for any job we were asked to do .
6 ‘ I 've worked with Geech as he prepares the side for each game we play .
7 But of these failures in the experiment of agricultural society we know next to nothing .
8 For example , in the study of forward paddling we could look at slalom and polo as both classes of boat are short and directionally unstable , like our own .
9 In the study of colorectal cancer we are fortunate that there exists both a familial form of the disease and a precursor lesion , namely the adenomatous polyp .
10 We stop breathing when we are frightened — in sudden fear of any kind we hold our breath .
11 In the first chapter of this book we explained that language is an arbitrary communication system .
12 The oldest-looking piece of Greek sculpture we have is an over life-size marble of a woman ( fig. 11 ) from the sanctuary on Delos which Artemis shared with her brother Apollo .
13 On the other side of this coin we find Chip Beck and Lanny Wadkins .
14 In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ .
15 With the aid of this vector we can replace unc by unc where unc is the unit vector in the direction of point P at a radius r .
16 As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work .
17 With snow in plentiful supply we have a special section in this issue for those of you who want to get off the piste .
18 To look at the work of an art critic in this way we have to turn to historians of taste for the past and to journalists for the present .
19 If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome .
20 John said : ‘ By reducing our holding in this block we are spreading our risk and freeing up funds for development elsewhere .
21 The Liberal Democrats are opposed to the basis of this review at national level we believe an opportunity has been missed or perhaps I should say ducked for the common , fair electoral system for which this country is supposedly a signatory .
22 Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised .
23 In our er assessment of major morbidity we have included a return to theatre , er a postoperative blood transfusion of , of more than two units of blood and the development of postoperative sepsis .
24 Remember part of that time we were in div 2 getting only a fraction of the TV and Sponsorship money that Scum and Scouse were getting .
25 As part of that task we have promoted improved contacts and technology transfer between industry and the academic world through a number of special schemes , such as the LINK scheme which funds collaborative research work between HEIs and industry .
26 As a result of our extensive review of the design and build business in the early part of last year we have reinforced our operational and management capabilities in this area with the appointment of a number of experienced design and build professionals .
27 As part of this exercise we will perform a ‘ practice run ’ with the company 's executives to check the areas where they will be asked questions and to prepare them for the meetings with would be acquirors .
28 In the third part of this book we shall introduce various data analytic techniques to control for the effect of a third variable .
29 In the first part of this book we will be " filling the education gap " .
30 In the concluding part of this chapter we want to pass rough , but clear , judgement on these matters so that you know where we stand .
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