Example sentences of "we [vb base] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right to emphasise the great importance that we attach to a successful GATT round . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We refer to a rusted telescope as a ‘ rusted telescope ’ or more impressively , ‘ telescope , condition poor ’ . |
| 8 | When we say that a flag at half-mast means that someone has died , we refer to a social convention that death shall be marked in this way . |
| 9 | If we say newspapers are a mass medium , we refer to a particular kind of ‘ message — news . |
| 10 | Well , can everyone take on board the idea now , if there are new documents being prepared or we get to a major re-issue . |
| 11 | This procedure may break down if we get to a single pair of edges , but we will see that this can happen only if a pair of corners has also to be exchanged . |
| 12 | In Deseret , we adhere to a Biblical code rather than to the laws and statutes of the United States . ’ |
| 13 | Finally , we turn to a critical issue in any honest exploration of our attitudes towards old people , namely the value which our society ascribes to them . |
| 14 | We go to a Dutch city where motor traffic is banned from the centre and where more than half of all local journeys are made by bike . |
| 15 | When we go to a new group we always begin with a meeting with the women to see what they want . |
| 16 | Whilst we realise that if we belong to a national organisation , there will be some additional cost to individual Institutes . |
| 17 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 18 | If we advance to a single currency and monetary and political union , will we , as Members of Parliament directly answerable to the electorate , have responsibility without authority ? |
| 19 | If we subscribe to a truth-conditional semantics , we shall therefore be forced to find a place for such meanings in pragmatic theory . |
| 20 | Harry will probably get over his affection for Lucy once we return to a normal life again . |
| 21 | We come to a spatio-temporal individual or particular , but not one which is an ordinary thing . |
| 22 | We come to a stubby cylinder of undressed stone ; the second of the two chimneys from the old railway tunnel under the hill . |
| 23 | Here we come to a delicate area . |
| 24 | The ash-fall which buried Pompeii and the mudflow which covered Herculaneum , however , are first-class examples of two major kinds of volcanic phenomena , which have been repeated scores of times on different volcanoes in different parts of the world and we will be following them up more closely when we come to a detailed consideration of the mechanisms of eruptions . |
| 25 | Here we submit to a deep sea-change of hormonal rhythms and intestinal flora — and prepare ourselves for unknown months of deep immersion amongst the wilder regions of the archipelago . |
| 26 | It is an interesting curiousity that the nearest thing that we have to a minimum wage was introduced by Winston Churchill that one-time Conservative Prime Minister , in an earlier political guise . |
| 27 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 28 | these Coward films are probably the nearest things we have to a valid modern school in British cinema … . |