Example sentences of "what we [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what we use as a cleanser , is either a cleansing milk or a cleansing cream . |
| 2 | No reason no reason why that should n't be I mean we 've we 've got what we use as a as a clip display thing that 's about six foot high and three panels you know but erm |
| 3 | Perhaps ironically , more general social scientific studies of children , child care and family life have rarely been drawn upon to inform and clarify what we know as a basis for discussions of child abuse . |
| 4 | The purpose here essentially is to outline what we know as a prelude to tackling the themes and patterns which emerge in a more analytical way in subsequent chapters . |
| 5 | This club wants youngsters to choose what we regard as a special game . ’ |
| 6 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 7 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 8 | What we mean by a grapheme is the written representation of a single phoneme — so , for example , the PH in CHOOPH , is a single grapheme because it represents a single phoneme . |
| 9 | This argument , which amounts to a discussion of what we mean by a miracle , will occupy the rest of this chapter . |
| 10 | This is strictly speaking an impossibility , in that it is impossible to do and have what we recognise as a knot without at some point letting go of the rope . |
| 11 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 12 | We could replace what we have with a proposition relating variation in the operation of the heater , variation in its relative position , and so on , with variation in the temperature of the driver 's knee . |
| 13 | manual expression ( the child is requested to ‘ Show me what we do with a … ’ ) . |
| 14 | Now , pedicures is really a manicure of the toes , but what we do with a pedicure , we actually rub away the hard skin that you may have on the bottom of your feet , on the side of your big toe , that 's usually where it builds up , or on the ball of the foot . |
| 15 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 16 | The Horses ' sequence ( of which Nos.1 to 49 are also illustrated here ) provided " a dictionary of what we do to an image " . |
| 17 | In short , we would wish to order and organize what we do in a morally respectable and defensible way . |
| 18 | Notice that I have a red pencil and a blue one has no crossed interpretation , which is what we expect from a genuine ambiguity . |
| 19 | And we keep records of bookings , stating what is expected of us , and what we expect from a booking , ’ says the cheery singer . |
| 20 | Slavish conformity is not what we want of a child . |
| 21 | What we all want as individuals is not , in sum , the same as what we want as a community . |
| 22 | It is always a big event and probably just what we want after a bad defeat . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Ever and again comes the thought that what we see of a sign is only the outside of something within , in which the real operations of sense and meaning go on ’ ( 140 ) . |
| 24 | They 're going to work in leisure industries , in caring services , in education , all those things that go with what we think as a good life , and indeed , coming back to the third world , that 's the very kind of thing that we need in African villages and India — agriculturalists , erm teachers , health workers and so on . |
| 25 | What we record in an X-ray photoelectron experiment is a spectrum of kinetic energies of ejected electrons , each corresponding to the binding energy of one core level in the sample . |