Example sentences of "we [vb base] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is , perhaps , salutary to reflect upon how difficult we make it for older people to use the range of leisure facilities provided either because of physical access problems , inappropriate classes and high entry costs .
2 Cos I thought if we round it off both ways
3 ‘ It has the range if we fit it with FAST packs , ’ the Air Force general told Morton Stannard at the Pentagon .
4 It 's got a bad reputation , we associate it with old age , the truth is , man loses his hair because he 's got too much male testosterone and he loses it because he 's got a sex drive like a rampant rhino .
5 We we just have this weird notation that we write it like this and we say it like that cos squared Z what we mean
6 We let it for short terms to captains and such like . ’
7 We cut it to four and those four are still our major selling products and the foundation of our business .
8 So we put it into this pot and we invest it in as many funds and spread the money out , so if , if one fund does n't produce very much in return , another fund will , and so we in fact , get a better spread throughout the market , than you could do as an individual .
9 So we take our example we put it through these decoders .
10 and when we put it in that toy machine , we could mix it like that would n't need you to do it would it ?
11 c ) certainly exists : we add it to each side .
12 In ordinary politics , however , we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all , because it can conflict with these other ideals .
13 WE OWE it above all to the example of John Harle , himself still young , that the saxophone is fast shedding its jazz/pop image .
14 I owe it to Alison , we owe it to each other , to live this openly and simply .
15 ‘ … I think we owe it to that pathetic creature in there . ’
16 We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge .
17 Yeah , we run it as such very much .
18 We extend it to this year as well as last ?
19 A pink milk pudding or blancmange is simple in the sense that , if we slice it in two , the two portions will have the same internal constitution : a blancmange is homogeneous .
20 It 's a matter , I think , of managing it properly , of making sure that we minimise any kind of deleterious effect on the environment , that we manage it in such a way that is tolerable and beneficial to ourselves , to our communities wherever we live .
21 ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne .
22 And because applications differ , we design it in two configurations .
23 Or if we do sow it , we sow it in vast , sudden blocks — before a mission , for example — which may appear so artificial to those on the receiving end .
24 And it we drive it at sixty miles an hour , for two hours .
25 Without the oxygen produced from water by green plants , life as we know it on this planet would be impossible .
26 The recognition that all men are equal in the sight of God is fundamental to liberty as we know it in modern Western societies .
27 The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such .
28 And we get it in two or three places , the toilets are , are the key one .
29 We er emphasised to him the impact this would have on Oxfordshire 's er spending requirements and er the hope that the er spending that we get , and we get it in two ways ; one is through , called the standard spending grant , that is a general grant that was given to authorities to spend as they wish , and the other is a specific grants which are given for particular purposes , and some of them cover the legislation that I have mentioned , which we are required to spend specifically on the items for which they 're given .
30 We have got , each one of us , to take our place as we find it in this world and make the best of it , and pull together with the others around us …
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