Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 2 | If the left hand end of the line is fixed by the co-ordinates of Bishops Cannings church , then the angle it makes with its horizontal base assumes a value , which we shall call angle ‘ a ’ . |
| 3 | Sentence 5 also illustrates another aspect of modulation , which we shall call linkage of traits . |
| 4 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 5 | And this is at a time , of course , when we have other doors opening to us , which we shall need match funding , objective rural Dent , and er , er for the for the for the budget to be , it to have been cut in this way , is is is is very serious . |
| 6 | This period — which we shall have occasion to discuss in more detail later — was known , for those living in it , as ‘ the Last Times ’ , or ‘ the Last Days ’ . |
| 7 | The basic rules of procedure for any such exercise , short or prolonged , remain very much the same : a six-week programme may well include a series of short ten-minute sequences as well as other episodes and exercises and in devising materials for either one would take into account the basic procedures of materials production which we shall have occasion to examine in a later chapter . |
| 8 | These include the famous letter " Solite " to the Eastern Emperor Alexis of Constantinople and a letter of 1200 addressed to the archbishop of Canterbury and concerning Bishop Mauger , which we shall have occasion to discuss later . |
| 9 | An important collection of exempla which we shall have reason to refer to on several occasions is the Disciplina Clericalis , an early twelfth-century collection of instructive tales put together by Petrus Alphonsus , a converted Jew , for his son . |
| 10 | One issue to which we would draw attention at this stage is the effect of injecting a specific sum of money from another source on the deployment of the school 's capitation and the way it is already supplemented by , for example , the PTA . |
| 11 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 12 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 13 | It seems that there is a high degree of creativity in the lexicon which we must take account of . |
| 14 | ‘ And then the Great Vale , with the Great River , which we must follow north to Talisker . ’ |
| 15 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 16 | The best way — indeed , the only way — in which we can make progress in that regard is by affecting attitudes and the culture that exists within companies . |
| 17 | The value of the ethological study of apes , monkeys and baboons is what it tells us about apes , monkeys and baboons ; only in very special circumstances , and in a very tentative way , should it be seen as a metaphorical alternative by means of which we can study man himself , as in a mirror . |
| 18 | There are a number of different ways in which we can measure wealth . |
| 19 | Then one way in which we can accommodate context-relativity is to say that the proposition expressed by a sentence in a context is a function from possible worlds and that context to truth values . |
| 20 | The only way in which we can achieve sovereignty is by sharing it . |
| 21 | ‘ There are two successive movements of consciousness , difficult but well within our capability , by which we can have access to the superior gradations of our existence . |
| 22 | Because language appears such a natural instrument with which we can describe reality , its terms and expressions seem to describe the way things are and will always be . |
| 23 | ‘ In addition , it provides a local market in which we can add value to 200,000 tonnes of commercially-grown pine which would otherwise be sold for processing outside the Highlands . |
| 24 | There is , then , I believe , a much better way in which we can understand Animal Liberation than the way provided by an egalitarian interpretation of interests . |
| 25 | This book suggests many ways in which we can use video in a different way to viewing television . |
| 26 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 27 | However , there are some matters on which we will seek clarification or assurance . |
| 28 | Often they are what we would call eye-witness accounts . |
| 29 | Darwin , with his inherited money , doing little experiments in his garden and studying what we would call ecology , seemed rather like a survival from the eighteenth century : the new way to end arguments about animals seemed to be through chemistry . |
| 30 | Er and they were what we would call medium to heavy type of er engineering . |