Example sentences of "we [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , but how were we to know about the crash ? |
| 2 | Are we to look within the Church for those kind of murderous emotions ? ’ |
| 3 | How are we to judge from an animal 's overt behaviour whether we are observing a well-oiled machine or a creature with some degree of intelligence and creativity ? |
| 4 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |
| 5 | Are we to account for the behaviour of a bureaucracy in terms of the behaviour of the human individuals comprising it , or vice versa ? |
| 6 | It is this " odd prejudice against his subject " which causes Tindall to move beyond the bounds of " decency " : " What are we to say of a research student who [ sets ] in an ambiguous light the author of one of the greatest books in our language , and one of the greatest religious forces in the life of England ? " |
| 7 | WHAT are we to make of a claim by the Surrey Wildlife Trust that more than a million wild animals and birds are ‘ probably ’ killed every year on the roads of Britain ? |
| 8 | First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ? |
| 9 | But what are we to make of the evidence which suggests that working class wives rarely knew what their husbands earned , or enjoyed sex , or of the probably greater incidence of violence between spouses ? |
| 10 | The question arises : What are we to make of the equality |
| 11 | And what are we to make of the claim that the twentieth century has seen no philosophical achievements on the scale of Locke and Descartes ? |
| 12 | Now , what are we to make of an incident such as this ? |
| 13 | If you add that to the er problems that the government has created for this County , as with other County Councils , then the two things make it quite impossible for us to continue with a capital programme as we would like . |
| 14 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 15 | The men did n't like us to sit on the platform . |
| 16 | It was just warm enough for us to sit at the table outside and drink cool wine in the fading sun . |
| 17 | He told us to sit by the fire . |
| 18 | Eadred invited us to sit round the table . |
| 19 | This was Madge , who made costumes for the rest of us to wear at the party nights . |
| 20 | He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water . |
| 21 | In the words of his 1906 paper , ‘ the seismograph enables us to see into the earth and to determine its nature … as if we could drive a tunnel through it . ’ |
| 22 | Cos she showed up , a lot of them show tendency at home or er say some of the ones she 's just asked us to see in the office anyway . |
| 23 | I would urge the panel to make a decision which enables us to go down a road of logical decision making to get the issue resolved one way or the other . |
| 24 | There was , however , no necessity for us to go down the hill for water , for if we continued a little further we should find a good spring on the road . |
| 25 | It 's been a godsend for us to go down the street shopping , if you 've got a load of shopping you just stop right outside the gate . |
| 26 | A call came over the radio for us to go to a RTA . |
| 27 | We went to bed — she was going to catch a plane and Dad said it was too late for us to go to the airport . |
| 28 | ‘ No-one wanted us to go to the spot where he died it 's right in the middle of what they call ‘ bandit ’ territory . |
| 29 | Do you want us to go to the store ? |
| 30 | Saturday was another day for outings , as they had arranged for us to go to an Art Exhibition in the afternoon , and to a singing and dancing programme by ‘ Minority Nationalities ’ ( Ughars , Kazaks , Mongolians , Tibetans , etc. ) in the evening . |