Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 2 | We rarely see the Old Testament as a whole and little attention is paid to the system of political economy which is set up under divine instruction in the Pentateuch . |
| 3 | Basta , che sol tu chieda ’ has all the solemnity for which we most admire the great bass arias from Messiah . |
| 4 | After a while , if we constantly wear the same , favourite scent , we can become immune to its charms . |
| 5 | ‘ If we constantly wear the same scent , we become immune to it ’ |
| 6 | It generates paper in sickening profusion ; it makes unconscionable demands on the heroes of the piece , the thirteen or fourteen hundred volunteers drawn mainly from ‘ that two-handed engine ’ we pompously call the binary system of higher education … but with all its faults the system works . |
| 7 | We greatly value the close contact we have with the Junior School prefects and the Sixth Year pupils , as well as the assistance we receive from parents in a variety of situations . |
| 8 | I remember coming into the store one Saturday at five minutes to four , I apologised for being so late and you said to me ‘ That 's alright Sir , we only shoot the last three ’ . |
| 9 | You see , we only get the German news in this Place , and of course that does n't mean a thing ’ |
| 10 | We only see the worst , and some of those are fairly horrible , I can tell you . |
| 11 | We only want the best teams on a project , if it is to stay on schedule . |
| 12 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 13 | we only address the urgent things . |
| 14 | We especially oppose the two-tier Health Service which the Government is creating . |
| 15 | ‘ We just cut the buttered bread into strips . |
| 16 | The tanks are not difficult to transport and we just hire the tropical fish from a pet shop in Belfast . ’ |
| 17 | Cos on ours , we just return the same thing that they send |
| 18 | To remove an inequality constraint is straightforward if the slack variable for that constraint is basic ; we just drop the corresponding row from the tableau . |
| 19 | my o my own personal view is if we just pay the fifteen and it 's sort of off in there straight away and then spend but not to sort of say , well you can spend it and update it ca n't you ? |
| 20 | plants up and everything for our normal you know , rock nights , I mean we just have the wrought iron up and whatever , but |
| 21 | What we do is we just leave the two for forty P if you think you 'd like to have a read , read of them . |
| 22 | We just do the first thing and then we do the second thing . |
| 23 | On it we normally get the full title and sub-title , the author 's name or pseudonym , his qualifications and , sometimes , the titles of other important or popular books he has written with , at the foot , the publisher 's imprint and , more often than not , the date . |
| 24 | We normally use the five percent significance level or the ten percent significance level which corresponds er ninety five percent confidence or ninety percent confidence right . |
| 25 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 26 | So there are educational erm resources erm as well as others and in my view one of the great gaps that 's starting er that 's growing and growing in the world is the difference between educational patterns in the more advanced world and that in some parts of what we normally call the Third World . |
| 27 | And that is why — now that human dominion is seen perhaps to be rather too complete , as we progressively eliminate the natural world on which our very survival depends — meat is now falling out of fashion . |
| 28 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 29 | We thus have the typical " skip " instruction ; If the condition is true skip the next instruction ; if it is false execute the next instruction On a single-address computer ( such as the DEC PDP- 10 ) we may find conditional jumps on a test of the contents of an accumulator , or on a comparison of two accumulators , but conditional skips on a test of the contents of a store location , or on a comparison of an accumulator with a store location . |
| 30 | We easily recognise the aggressive action of a horse that snakes its head towards a newcomer , puts its ears back , pulls up its nostrils , and raises one leg ready to lash out at the other horse . |