Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do however consider in Section 10–5 the implications of the different approaches for the size of the public sector , and discuss some of the econometric investigations that have been made of the determinants of public spending . |
| 2 | We do rather think of ourselves in this area as ‘ Medaus out in the sticks ’ , being a long way from the hub , so to speak . |
| 3 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 4 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 5 | I mean it 's been a helpful conversation , erm you know I 'm not s I you know you persuaded me , rightly or wrongly , that it 's not that much of an issue in in our fellowship , but it 's something that we do always need to be aware of . |
| 6 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 7 | In the fluidity of contemporary values we do indeed sink into a relativism for which your opinion is worth as much or little as mine whenever we lose faith in awareness itself , and surrender to irrationalism . |
| 8 | And getting them to work was a constant problem and collecting the fines , and we do actually know about this . |
| 9 | I do n't want to bump too hard against the plane 's fuselage in case we do actually come into contact with it . |
| 10 | ‘ Just asking for more legal powers is not good enough : we need more debate about what we understand by racial equality and multi-culturalism . |
| 11 | We need more support from food producers and retailers . |
| 12 | We need more space for art … |
| 13 | We need more space in our branches to improve the comfort and convenience for customers and to talk to them and serve them better . |
| 14 | We need only think of laurel leaves ( from which cyanide is derived ) and the foxglove , which can be lethal unless cautiously administered . |
| 15 | For our immediate purposes , we need only keep in mind that particular public sector organizations can fall in either of the categories of Type A non-profit and Type B non-profit . |
| 16 | We need only look at the institutions . |
| 17 | To see the truth of this we need only look around us . |
| 18 | In order to describe the sequence , we need only turn to the lectures which Eliot gave during and just after its composition : here he talked almost coyly of a poem which might develop themes instrumentally and arrange transitions " comparable to the different movements of a symphony or a quartet " , of a poem elaborate enough to exercise the dramatic , descriptive and narrative talents of its maker . |