Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm one of the things we agreed to do was to compile a list . |
| 2 | One of the things we intend to do is issue new , revised guidelines on portrayal . |
| 3 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 4 | All we got to do is enter , enter the horses in you get a paper called the Calendar . |
| 5 | All we got to do is keep it up , till the contact in . |
| 6 | Sometimes what we expect to hear is predetermined by cultural influences as well as the ways in which facts have previously been presented to us . |
| 7 | With SSDs , every penny we want to spend is examined by the auditors and they check to see whether our activity is HIV-related ’ . |
| 8 | That seems to me , to need a lot of thinking about , because if you 've got difficult children , ra the last thing we want to do is think you 've got a thousand pound fine or so . |
| 9 | All we want to do is go along and put forward our policies to discuss them in a well-mannered reasoned way . |
| 10 | I think really what we want to do is to decide whether or not we are using the annual report as a a list of jobs that we did last year . |
| 11 | Well , er , wh what we want to do , what we want to do is to relate this manifest content that you 've told us to what , what 's the other thing ? |
| 12 | ‘ The last thing we want to do is confuse anyone . |
| 13 | Well I think what we want to do is to find out the truth from the hype and the emotion , that is what we want to establish and I 'm sure we will correct it if there is any injustice . |
| 14 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 15 | The last thing we want to do is to start infighting on the S A Us |
| 16 | so we want to do is look at that one and we see that it 's keeping on track and er it 's doing the things that we actually want to do |
| 17 | Now what we want to do is try and draw some sort of picture for that . |
| 18 | What we want to do is to introduce a standard level of discount for everyone , a level playing field . ’ |
| 19 | The last thing we want to do is broadcast this information . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ All we want to do is get it out of the lorry . |
| 21 | What we want to do is to calculate the stress which will just separate two adjacent layers of atoms inside the material . |
| 22 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 23 | bits of where we 'd lived were scattered |
| 24 | Here , as elsewhere ( Bittner 1965 ) , we seem to have been misled by an essentialist definitional procedure which concentrates on the differences between phenomena and neglects those other matters which they have in common . |
| 25 | We seem to have been cut off . ’ |
| 26 | Since the seventeenth century we seem to have been caught up in this vicious cycle , alternatively applying the model of capitalist society to the animal kingdom , then reapplying this bourgeoisified animal kingdom to the interpretation of society . |
| 27 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 28 | At one level we discovered time being spent on different curriculum areas in similar proportions to those recorded by HMI and by other research projects . |
| 29 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 30 | Not only had a much slower rate of fall , but are actually detached nineteen ninety one from what we know has been happening . |