Example sentences of "we [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we intend to do in this chapter is discuss the inferential structure that forms the backbone of many of the methods of data collection currently in use . |
| 2 | ‘ We will not develop the business where there is no emphasis on quality , and we intend to continue in that framework . |
| 3 | The alternative explanation , involving a change in the rate of momentum loss through electromagnetic radiation or particle outflow might be accompanied by an observable change in the radiation pattern or the braking index ; we intend to search for these in our continued monitoring programme . |
| 4 | So starting with television , we said at the er , announcement of the Doulton , Camco demerger that we intended to develop further in the visual media , and so we are setting up a T D , T V division in which we 'll place all of our T V interests , at present just Thames , the investment in B Sky B and er , Yorkshire Tyne Tees , but watch this space , we e we intend to add to this er , division . |
| 5 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 6 | ‘ I think we tend to take up most of his engineering ideas . |
| 7 | During counselling we tend to talk about physical symptoms . |
| 8 | We tend to think of joint finance , in the English context , as involving the district health authority , but there is a range of agencies — from the highest level in the NHS down to the family practitioner committees — who must have a part to play in planning community services and of course in supporting community services . |
| 9 | Although we tend to think of industrial effluent , sewage is a more important source of pollution . |
| 10 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |
| 11 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 12 | We tend to think of light as being in some way ‘ different ’ from the other forms of radiation , but this is misleading . |
| 13 | Er being on the dole and having friends who were long term on the dole , we tend to buy from each other a lot . |
| 14 | As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity . |
| 15 | Broad-front exploration is expensive and tedious so we tend to look for some key factor that will simplify the task . |
| 16 | And so we tend to wobble between these two extremes in seeing our uniqueness . |
| 17 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |
| 18 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 19 | ‘ We want to stop in future anyone swinging the lead , ’ he stressed . |
| 20 | Mr Gloukhov told their hosts : ‘ We want to go to one of your garden centres so that we can take home seeds for flowers and vegetables . ’ |
| 21 | We want to go through that line by line so |
| 22 | If we want to use up most of our ration of luck in our theory of the origin of intelligence , then we have n't much left over to spend on our theory of the origin of life : we must come up with a theory that makes the origin of life almost inevitable . |
| 23 | and I do n't know if we want to agree to that straightaway in which case we get on to the next item . |
| 24 | Used to put animals to sleep , they do n't do much in the way of treatment , what we want to do from this is press for erm a P D S A grant . |
| 25 | What we want to do in this session as I said it will only take about twenty minutes , there are three key things we want to do . |
| 26 | Yes , we need to agree this , unpalatable as it is , to go forwards to P and R , to expose what the five percent reduction is , and to indicate as well to P and R other points that we , we want to say about these specific services . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't forget , ’ says Goldie , ‘ we want to leave by five . ’ |
| 28 | Talabani appealed to Kurds to return to their homes and stressed that " we want to stay in Iraqi Kurdistan , not leave it " . |
| 29 | We have all we want to know about that sort of thing and anyway it is not my job . |
| 30 | Well I I I would n't er pin point the German attitude on this one , I mean after all we did collaborate with Germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage . |