Example sentences of "we [vb base] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more dangerous is it when we insist that a man of two thousand years ago meant what we mean in so contentiously abstract a sphere as religious faith . |
| 2 | To assert those alternatives and to insist upon them we mean that a designer should cease to be the industrial Eichmann of a large corporation . |
| 3 | We seem to be on firmer ground , however , if we suggest that a singer who draws upon a training in the English choral tradition will not readily perform in a way that is bogus , trivial or solipsistic , for the choral tradition is none of those things ; it embodies the results of countless individual strivings for the best results in conformity to a communal discipline . |
| 4 | This is a result that is much easier to account for if we suggest that a body clock is responsible for the alternation between sleep and activity . |
| 5 | We cheer when a meerkat eats up a scorpion or a rattlesnake just for the hell of it . |
| 6 | Because much of the erupted magma was gas-poor , we propose that a subsurface connection exists between the intrusion and the summit feeder conduit ( Fig. 3 ) allowing gas to escape at the summit craters . |
| 7 | Mr Pienaar 's spokesman said : ‘ The Administrator-General is very disturbed that with the evidence at our disposal we realise that a situation could be building up which could lead to the ultimate defeat of the aims and objectives of Resolution 435 . ’ |
| 8 | We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person if , and only if , he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express — that is , if he knows what observations would lead him , under certain conditions , to accept the proposition as being true , or reject it as being false . |
| 9 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |
| 10 | When we say that a child enjoys the security of a familiar story structure , what tools have we for analysing that structure ? |
| 11 | When we say that a flag at half-mast means that someone has died , we refer to a social convention that death shall be marked in this way . |
| 12 | Just as a motor car can not run along the road without an engine , we say that a food service facility , be it a hotel or restaurant , can not run without its engine and that engine is the food production facility . |
| 13 | When we say that a ring round the moon means rain , we refer to a connection in nature . |
| 14 | We say that a divides b ( or that a is a divisor of b ) and we write unc there exists unc such that |
| 15 | The poem mentions the tolling of a bell ; we say that a bell ‘ tolls ’ when it sounds one repeated single note . |
| 16 | Here we show that a cable of filamentous actin appears to run continuously around most of the wound margin . |
| 17 | For example , we show that a tax on investment income may , in the malleable capital model , be shifted via a rise in the gross rate of return , with its redistributive potential being consequently reduced . |
| 18 | We conclude that a standing committee for library and resources should be a feature of the structure of every secondary school and that its membership should be such as to permit some cascade effect on the development of resources , syllabuses and teaching methods throughout a school . |
| 19 | We conclude that a project such as this needs to strike the right balance between , on the one hand setting criteria and a code of practice which wills structure and direct developments in participating institutions , and , on the other , permitting each institution appropriate independence and room for initiative and discretion . |
| 20 | We conclude that a bolus of cholera toxin of 6.25 to 25 µg can be used safely as an intestinal secretagogue when the described precautions are being taken . |
| 21 | He says we predict that a reservoir of this size will be essential if we 're to supply our customers with the water the need . |
| 22 | We consider that a child in care has a right to at least as good an education as any other child . |
| 23 | If there is an honest portrayal of human life and relationships , however extreme , we consider that a production can be judged according to the canons of aesthetic criticism . |
| 24 | ‘ We consider that a rewording of the ‘ definition ’ of charity is needed and we favour a definition which would allow of flexibility in interpretation . |
| 25 | We complain if a band stays away too long ; we complain if they outstay their welcome . |
| 26 | Indeed , we suspect that a rule which was never broken would not be a rule in our sense at all but rather an inevitability with the logical status of a law . |
| 27 | There 's a £5 Children 's World voucher for every letter we print and a £10 voucher for the writer of our star letter each month . |
| 28 | This is because our ‘ taxi schema ’ contains a ‘ taxi driver ’ , and we assume that a taxi that arrives at our house has a driver . |
| 29 | Once again , pragmatism can be defended as providing a good fit with what judges actually do and say in hard cases only if we assume that a pragmatist would have noble-lie reasons for constructing and deferring to the best account of the principle underlying past cases in these situations . |
| 30 | If we assume that a LECTURER can only teach one COURSE , and many LECTURERS teach on one COURSE , then the ‘ closed loop ’ shown in Figure 4.21 represents such a set . |