Example sentences of "we [vb base] to the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 2 | Finlay explains : ‘ Since we round to the nearest metre it could be 914.5 metres , say , which would make it a Munro . |
| 3 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 4 | NOT AT ALL — WE FLY TO THE ROMANIAN ORPHANAGE ON MONDAY … |
| 5 | These fears may be greater , for example , than those which we attach to the actual penalties imposed by the law — hence the use , and fear , of publicity in relation to criminal offences . |
| 6 | The importance that we attach to the further education of adults will be clearly demonstrated through this debate . |
| 7 | ‘ We object to the economic philosophy of the Treaty of Rome , ’ says Ms Lahnstein . |
| 8 | For the three cones indicated , we show to the left their individual absorbance spectra , which are typical of those on which we base our classification ; the solid curves fitted to the data are templates based on the Dartnall nomogram displaced on a log frequency abscissa . |
| 9 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 10 | But if the music changes , our attention is immediately alerted , and we listen to the new message with pleasure . |
| 11 | First , the ‘ European bookseller Year ’ link with the meeting of the EC bookseller associations has drawn a great deal of attention , leading we hope to the largest ever London get-together of European booksellers . |
| 12 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 13 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 14 | It is hopeless beauty that brings the tears to the eyes , a beauty we give to the dead hopes of our past . |
| 15 | We owe to the same Caesar the information that the Druids used the Greek alphabet ( 6.14 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ We will continue … to pursue steadily the path of co-operation with China and we look to the Chinese side to do the same . |
| 17 | We look to the independent film-makers ’ movement to help us do that , and we welcome their work to the screen . |
| 18 | We look to the British car manufacturing industry and its European counterparts to do the same as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | Today we travel to the other extreme and enter the microscopic world of the atom and its nucleus . |
| 20 | Wordsworth discovered and established those kinds of poetry which would best suit him ; it is in the German period that we travel to the furthest limits of the ‘ Wordsworthian ’ vision , in poems such as the ‘ Lucy ’ and ‘ Matthew ’ sequences , which are at one level blindingly clear , but in terms of prose exposition almost impossible to ‘ explain' . |
| 21 | DECEMBER ISSUE OF GOLF MONTHLY ON SALE NOVEMBER 12 DO N'T MISS YOUR COPY PLUS GOOD VALUE GOLF We travel to the Scottish Borders to find some of the best golfing bargains in the British Isles |
| 22 | We have seen significant changes world wide and that means that we should reappraise the amount of money that we devote to the diplomatic corps and to our aid budget . |
| 23 | ‘ Captain Carter , let me remind you that this Priory , of which I am in charge , is not only a house of God , it is a place where we attend to the sick and the dying . |
| 24 | As we indicate to the general assembly in the printed report , the Board could have insisted on its rights under contract made with those bodies and the Board was confident that it would have won any action in the courts . |
| 25 | When a person attempts to achieve a goal we refer to the behavioural outcome as ‘ motivation ’ . |
| 26 | But when we consider what might be deviant in terms of Lok 's own " dialect " , we refer to the secondary norm . |
| 27 | Structures where economic relationships are primary we call class societies , and in these we refer to the different unequal groups as classes . |
| 28 | By culture we refer to the shared values , beliefs and basic assumptions about what we are doing . |
| 29 | Now we get to the nitty gritty . |
| 30 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |