Example sentences of "we [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that , while we lose the administrative costs incurred by property valuation , we could easily replace them with the valuations of the poll tax for many different households . |
| 2 | Can I make a suggestion then that on this we change the suggested If you just put down that the enquiry form is farmed by the researchers full stop , and leave any related documents entirely up to the discretion of each and |
| 3 | In that context , we commend the new council tax . |
| 4 | Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant . |
| 5 | It will be decades before most countries outside Western Europe allow themselves the luxury of being nice to animals , but the earlier we lay the technical foundation the earlier that day may come . |
| 6 | As your child grows he or she will pass from the totally secure , almost self-contained , world of the Lower Primary Department where we lay the basic foundations of the entire curriculum , good work habits , and mutual respect , into a carefully planned and ever widening educational experience . |
| 7 | Sight is so important to us that it dominates the way we perceive the sensory worlds of other animals , and even dictates the vocabulary available to describe those worlds . |
| 8 | ‘ Eternity is not endless time , nor infinity endless space ; they are the entirely different mental categories through which we perceive the unfallen world . ’ |
| 9 | This is were double bed tuck comes into its own , because the single needle per tuck rule no longer applies as soon as we bring the front bed into work and carrying stitches . |
| 10 | The end of the halyard goes through the end goes through the end fitting and then we tie a little stopper knot in the end , then we bring the other end of the halyard down and make it up tight on this crease at the bottom of the mast . |
| 11 | In this section we bring the basic rules together . |
| 12 | That we advocate the immediate implementation of the Scottish Old People 's Chapter , to strive to maintain and improve the standard of living of pensioners by ensuring that the pension will rise according to the cost of living or er or livings or earnings , which er whichever is the most advantageous . |
| 13 | That we advocate the immediate implementation of the Scottish Old People 's Chapter to strive to maintain and improve the standard of living of pensioners by ensuring that the pension will rise according to the cost of living or earnings , whichever is er is the most ad advantageous . |
| 14 | Yet if we do this we undermine the whole concept of cultural evolution and the spontaneous order which underlies Hayek and Friedmans ' defence of the market economy . |
| 15 | In moving now to consider the fate of the third PNP aim — that concerned with the promotion of ‘ flexible teaching strategies ’ — we stress the close connection with our discussion of curriculum in the previous chapter . |
| 16 | Whilst we stress the artificial nature of most time-cues , it would be misleading to suggest that natural light is without effect . |
| 17 | It 's only ten feet or so down , if we pick the right window . ’ |
| 18 | Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ? |
| 19 | Sometimes , particularly if we lack the formal rituals of grief , the healing of the bereavement process gets stuck . |
| 20 | We are naive , President Gorbachev said , if we repress the religious dimension of mankind . |
| 21 | Sometimes we repress the natural grieving processes by giving the mourners tranquillisers . |
| 22 | We insist the conceptual design , and I 'm underlining conceptual design , is the responsibility of the function and section engineers , who have bottom line responsibility for each project . |
| 23 | All of us , or perhaps , not all of us , but most of us do worry about our food , we eat too much , we eat too little , we eat the wrong thing ! |
| 24 | When we eat the Holy Bread , Jesus is with us . |
| 25 | In Third World countries , even or especially those only slightly affected by western economies , almost all active men and their wives and children are engaged in trade ; if we imagine the corn and wool from local sources , the oil and wine from further off , the spices from the Far East and the slaves from heaven-knows-where who filled the fairs and markets of Europe in increasing quantities in the eleventh and twelfth centuries — above all , if we contemplate the great stone buildings and recall the quarries whence came the stone — we can see that there is an immense effort here largely hidden from our eyes . |
| 26 | Whatever has gone wrong , it was all our fault , but we are trapped in helplessness , and as we contemplate the dull ruins of the fabric of our lives in the light that shines from our visions of what might have been , our ‘ real ’ life seems messier and drabber , and we weep in self-pity for the golden afternoons that never were ours . |
| 27 | If we contemplate the main abbey church of Reichenau today we see a gigantic church with a vast nave , and this is the product of a new fashion of the late tenth and eleventh centuries . |
| 28 | I do n't understand why we make the poor so and so 's who are addicted to er to drugs er fear the law as well . |
| 29 | The letter does not have a line of symmetry and if we make the right side look exactly like the left , we get a circle with lines on it . |
| 30 | We make the Perfect Pair . |