Example sentences of "we [vb base] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 2 | There is no logical starting point , since we bring to a literary text simultaneously two faculties , however imperfectly developed : our ability to respond to it as a literary work and our ability to observe its language . |
| 3 | Finlay explains : ‘ Since we round to the nearest metre it could be 914.5 metres , say , which would make it a Munro . |
| 4 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 5 | NOT AT ALL — WE FLY TO THE ROMANIAN ORPHANAGE ON MONDAY … |
| 6 | From this high point of religiosity we descend to an ironic concluding sentence , recalling another leitmotiv which makes its first appearance in passage [ 3 ] : [ 6 ] " Dear me , dear me ! |
| 7 | Economics , sociology , mathematics , law and accounting were suggested as the essential subjects , and although colleges could provide liberal studies also , ‘ we would stress the importance we attach to a liberal treatment of the whole curriculum ’ . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is right to emphasise the great importance that we attach to a successful GATT round . |
| 9 | These fears may be greater , for example , than those which we attach to the actual penalties imposed by the law — hence the use , and fear , of publicity in relation to criminal offences . |
| 10 | The importance that we attach to the further education of adults will be clearly demonstrated through this debate . |
| 11 | ‘ We object to the economic philosophy of the Treaty of Rome , ’ says Ms Lahnstein . |
| 12 | For the three cones indicated , we show to the left their individual absorbance spectra , which are typical of those on which we base our classification ; the solid curves fitted to the data are templates based on the Dartnall nomogram displaced on a log frequency abscissa . |
| 13 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 14 | But if the music changes , our attention is immediately alerted , and we listen to the new message with pleasure . |
| 15 | First , the ‘ European bookseller Year ’ link with the meeting of the EC bookseller associations has drawn a great deal of attention , leading we hope to the largest ever London get-together of European booksellers . |
| 16 | If we cling to an outmoded view of neighbouring , peering at it through deeply rose-tinted spectacles , we may make false assumptions about what is actually available to old people , or ought to be available . |
| 17 | Copse Corner , copse er , is , is a name which we give to a small wood , a small group of trees is a copse , in India that can be called a shola , S H O L A |
| 18 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 19 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 20 | It is hopeless beauty that brings the tears to the eyes , a beauty we give to the dead hopes of our past . |
| 21 | We owe to the same Caesar the information that the Druids used the Greek alphabet ( 6.14 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ We will continue … to pursue steadily the path of co-operation with China and we look to the Chinese side to do the same . |
| 23 | We look to the independent film-makers ’ movement to help us do that , and we welcome their work to the screen . |
| 24 | We look to the British car manufacturing industry and its European counterparts to do the same as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | Today we travel to the other extreme and enter the microscopic world of the atom and its nucleus . |
| 26 | Wordsworth discovered and established those kinds of poetry which would best suit him ; it is in the German period that we travel to the furthest limits of the ‘ Wordsworthian ’ vision , in poems such as the ‘ Lucy ’ and ‘ Matthew ’ sequences , which are at one level blindingly clear , but in terms of prose exposition almost impossible to ‘ explain' . |
| 27 | DECEMBER ISSUE OF GOLF MONTHLY ON SALE NOVEMBER 12 DO N'T MISS YOUR COPY PLUS GOOD VALUE GOLF We travel to the Scottish Borders to find some of the best golfing bargains in the British Isles |
| 28 | For example , with a file that is only 50 per cent packed , we must expect 21.31 per cent of the records not to be stored in their home record positions if we randomize to a specific address . |
| 29 | From the table and figure , it is clear that far fewer records will be displaced if we randomize to a multi-record bucket rather than to an individual record position . |
| 30 | We have seen significant changes world wide and that means that we should reappraise the amount of money that we devote to the diplomatic corps and to our aid budget . |