Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 2 | During counselling we tend to talk about physical symptoms . |
| 3 | We tend to think of joint finance , in the English context , as involving the district health authority , but there is a range of agencies — from the highest level in the NHS down to the family practitioner committees — who must have a part to play in planning community services and of course in supporting community services . |
| 4 | Although we tend to think of industrial effluent , sewage is a more important source of pollution . |
| 5 | We tend to think of light as being in some way ‘ different ’ from the other forms of radiation , but this is misleading . |
| 6 | ‘ We want to stop in future anyone swinging the lead , ’ he stressed . |
| 7 | Talabani appealed to Kurds to return to their homes and stressed that " we want to stay in Iraqi Kurdistan , not leave it " . |
| 8 | Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes , whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods ) , but the principle is much the same . |
| 9 | We want to specialise in high-reliability systems . |
| 10 | SDO Craggs said : ‘ We want to hear from young people in their early 20s . |
| 11 | The point we want to make for immediate purposes has to do with the way in which methodological problems arise from particular conceptions of the " order of things " . |
| 12 | We are the ones miserably fiddling with our shell necklaces while we wait to turn from anaemic to lobster . |
| 13 | We stop to chat about national affairs or the state of the Common , hardly ever about what was on the box last night . |
| 14 | So , every penny that we receive goes towards cost-effective direct provision for the single homeless . |
| 15 | So , every penny that we receive goes towards cost-effective direct provision for the single homeless . |
| 16 | Some of the tapes we receive arrive on dodgy cassettes , have various bits and pieces of other music on them , and we have to waste time trying to find the relevant bit of the tape . |
| 17 | It seems to me that many of the people involved in our industry have a fundamental lack of understanding of the needs and preoccupations of the modern child , and there are far too many groups , circles , committees and working parties which we seem to form in endless pursuit of the Holy Grail of better children 's bookselling . |
| 18 | Large as these numbers are , they are not large enough to account for all the particles that we seem to observe in strong and weak interactions . |
| 19 | He says success is judged on the number of people we manage to charge with criminal offences . |
| 20 | With the substantial reality of an ether existing in space as accepted by Quantum Physics , in line with the ancient Vedic teachings , we can now look at the movement of this energy and how it integrates and forms this material world we know according to modern twentieth-century understanding as well as past views . |
| 21 | There 's a common interest of course of avoiding war for most people anyway , but there 's also a common interest we know related to environmental issues and that can not be dealt with by each country , each country may have unique environmental problems but environmental problems straddle erm boundaries of countries as we saw from the Chernobyl problem of some years ago . |
| 22 | As we go deeper , there is a slight variation at three thousand metres which we know corresponds to Antarctic intermediate water . |
| 23 | ‘ One thing I would say is that we get inundated with rent-a-quote demands . |
| 24 | Of course we get co-opted onto other committees , so we are involved in with others you know . |
| 25 | Most of the telephone queries we get come from marine fishkeepers . |
| 26 | One test of our response to the change made by age is what we decide to do about grey hair . |
| 27 | We continue experimenting with different transformations from the summary values until we have done the best we can to promote symmetry and Gaussian shape . |
| 28 | A typical school policy statement about staff development will include definitions such as " it is essential that we continue to grow in professional stature and experience , backed by the support of a comprehensive programme of in-service opportunities designed to help all of us to meet the growing demands with confidence , a sense of purpose and , as can be the case , an increased personal job satisfaction " ( Hewton 1988:88 ) . |
| 29 | Furthermore , we keep hearing about other conferences being planned in Paris and in Hannover , Panofsky 's home town , and then we heard there has been a proposal that the International Congress of the History of Art in Berlin ( 15–20 July ) should have a whole section devoted to Panofsky , ( although there has been some disagreement about this recently ) . |
| 30 | Too many British rap tracks try and copy American stuff , but our sound has evolved through time and we keep branching into different styles . ’ |