Example sentences of "we [vb base] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes We regret that the tour is not entirely suitable for people in wheelchairs . |
| 2 | As it is , we regret that the printers , when they had the opportunity , did not make an end of the half-paid female labour and so established the principle for both sexes of " Equal work , equal pay " . |
| 3 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 4 | This is not so and we stress that the results in Fig. 1.1 are routinely found . |
| 5 | We stress that the list serves a heuristic purpose : it enables us to collect data on a fairly systematic basis . |
| 6 | And we stress that the absence of noticeable discriminatory behaviour says nothing about how defendants perceived their treatment . |
| 7 | We may scrape and spit and dab and rub , until the point when we declare that the truth stands plain before us , thanks to xylene and propanol and acetone . |
| 8 | If , however , we insist that the scribes were simply careless or poorly acquainted with English , we shall be inclined ( as many scholars have been ) to reject the evidence and date this sound-change much later — at a time when it was actually completed in ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 9 | This is why we only record minimal acceptances , or in other words , why we insist that the unc are incomparable . |
| 10 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 11 | ‘ We eat when the crops grow . |
| 12 | More and more sprays and chemicals have been used on the food we eat and the land on which it is grown and ingenious methods of preserving the appearance of freshness have been devised . |
| 13 | We have suggested that ‘ diata ’ means a way of living ; it means taking a holistic viewpoint on the food we eat and the exercise our bodies need . |
| 14 | This water is not only derived from the food that we eat and the fluid that we drink : much of it comes from the multitude of secretions which enter the gut lumen . |
| 15 | Small changes in the choices we make or the way we behave can make us part of the solution rather than the problem . |
| 16 | We require also to recruit and motivate the best people and this in turn requires a good reputation , not only for the goods we make and the worthiness of our contribution to society , but also the way in which we do these things , the sort of people we employ and the contributions we make in the area , and whether we are good citizens or not . |
| 17 | After follow-up work on numerous social issues by the individual parish groups in Warrington , Runcorn and Frodsham we trust that the ideas of growing into the society God wants will be put in action in our community . |
| 18 | Er we trust if the post is doubled in the way it has frequently been in recent years and indeed was in my case , the Chancellor of the Duchy in brackets also as the Chairman of the Conservative Party to maintain the dignitary of the magistracy to make sure that there is a firm balance amongst magistrates who are appointed . |
| 19 | We bomb what we hate and the pieces of torn flesh become our constant companions . |
| 20 | To put the record straight , I shall read the second paragraph : ’ We judge that the provisions of the Bill , as printed , are confused and inadequate for their purposes . |
| 21 | The champagne went down very well on the night the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's appeal substantially failed , but we fear that the hangover from this report may last rather longer . |
| 22 | A great number of federal nave ships have congregated in the Kornati National Reserve , and we fear that the area 's unique geomorphology and marine life may be threatened by mines they have left . |
| 23 | More importantly , we fear that the suggestion that this may happen may deter some doctors from giving adequate doses of these drugs when they are properly indicated . |
| 24 | We do this because we fear that the other language may not contain the sophisticated concepts we may need in the communication . |
| 25 | ‘ We fear that the construction of a sea defence wall will pave the way for road and business developments and will signal the end of Southport as a resort . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We fear that the major call-up … could , instead of helping to prevent violence , lead to serious intimidation of local communities and even more violence , ’ the ANC said . |
| 27 | We postulate that the alternation of homogeneous gabbro and graded layers is produced by a magma chamber that remains below the critical concentration for substantial periods of time and generates a steady accumulation of crystals on the floor in the cotectic proportions . |
| 28 | With this philosophy in mind , we postulate that the divergent process is the worst possible . |
| 29 | We postulate that the supradiaphragmatic segment of transposed colon has evolved a MAC type activity in an attempt to overcome the ‘ obstructive ’ effect of the diaphragmatic hiatus . |
| 30 | But sometimes when we say that every person is only required to sacrifice a little we mean that the antecedently expected sacrifice is small , i.e. that the odds that he will have to sacrifice a lot are small . |