Example sentences of "we [vb base] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why company law should have been so concerned to legitimate the power of corporate managers is that this power potentially threatens the political-economic organization we associate with a liberal democracy . |
| 2 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 3 | We conclude with a brief discussion of the interaction of some recent participatory initiatives with the local representative system of democracy . |
| 4 | After a more general treatment of the direct vs indirect tax debate , we conclude with a brief look at recent reforms of local taxation and social security benefits . |
| 5 | The next shot is of the traffic itself , and we pan with a quaint three-wheel vehicle as it passes by on its way to market with a cargo of onions . |
| 6 | We begin with a brief look at the official figures , since , whatever the shortcomings of these statistics , and no matter how distorted a picture of ‘ real ’ crime they portray , they do nevertheless have real effects , since they are used , for example , in political debate and inform , at least partially , the public 's perception of the crime problem . |
| 7 | We begin with a brief and necessarily incomplete review of UK statistics ; the general provisions are typical of what is available in countries of the Western world . |
| 8 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |
| 9 | We close with a cautionary note : one should bear in mind that a source of potential confusion always present is the fact that certain verbs lend themselves to occurrence with more than one type of adjectival construction , and to illustrate let us observe that any of the following , with their different modes of interpretation , are fully acceptable sentences of English : ( 72 ) Mackay preferred the picture stolen ( postnominal attributive ) ( 73 ) Shelagh prefers her holidays adventurous ( predicate qualifier ) ( 74 ) we prefer the king ( to be ) beheaded ( clausal ) |
| 10 | We start with a young man , Thomas Fairfax , in military khaki and flying jacket , climbing into his old biplane and taxiing down a runway . |
| 11 | We start with a famous passage of the French religious thinker Blaise Pascal 's Thoughts , in which the seventeenth-century writer compared belief in a God to a bet or wager . |
| 12 | But of today 's trip to face Arthur Cox 's side at the Baseball Ground he says : ‘ This is a different season and we start with a clean sheet . ’ |
| 13 | We start with a common game theory model of an arms race . |
| 14 | We start with a brief summary of the nine cases which took most of the media coverage . |
| 15 | We start with a brief summary of the ‘ classical ’ economics which J.M. Keynes attacked in his book , The General Theory of Employment , Interest and Money in 1936 . |
| 16 | Instead and this is true of so much performance of pre-Baroque music we start with a ready-made ensemble or choir and ask , ‘ What will we sing or record next ? ’ |
| 17 | We live with a double command : to love God , and to love other people too . |