Example sentences of "we [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , but how were we to know about the crash ? |
| 2 | Are we to look within the Church for those kind of murderous emotions ? ’ |
| 3 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |
| 4 | Are we to account for the behaviour of a bureaucracy in terms of the behaviour of the human individuals comprising it , or vice versa ? |
| 5 | First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ? |
| 6 | But what are we to make of the evidence which suggests that working class wives rarely knew what their husbands earned , or enjoyed sex , or of the probably greater incidence of violence between spouses ? |
| 7 | The question arises : What are we to make of the equality |
| 8 | And what are we to make of the claim that the twentieth century has seen no philosophical achievements on the scale of Locke and Descartes ? |