Example sentences of "we [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do n't modernize we lose competitive edge and have to make men redundant , and if we do modernize we have to make men redundant because we do n't need 'em any more . ’ |
| 2 | Have not we heard planted questions this afternoon that have contained carefully worked-out statistic after statistic ? |
| 3 | We commend close attention to the way time is used in the curriculum . |
| 4 | Thus we commend the Bible to be read by the Churches and by Christian families in their homes , as nourishment for their souls , and not to be separated from the sacrament in the liturgy ; we commend modern translations , into the various languages , as a help to understanding ; we commend the people who have the duty of seeking to interpret the Bible in terms of the modern scientific view of the world ; and remind the Churches that all knowledge is of God and therefore that scientific discovery is also part of His work ; and so the world will be brought to know God as its Maker , and the Cross as timeless . |
| 5 | It is difficult to capture accurately the complex patterns of motivation that produce an individual 's actions but I think the position of Paisley , Beattie , Foster , and others can be better understood if we distinguish motivational background and front stage . |
| 6 | Sometimes we met other travellers and conversation with them enlivened the boredom : merchants , wandering friars , the occasional hunting party , clerics or landless men looking for labour . |
| 7 | We accept motion three four three with some qualifications as it begs the question actually how do we refine anti-trade union laws ? |
| 8 | ‘ We applied relentless pressure but Tony Norman only made two saves . ’ |
| 9 | In the first test , we applied acoustic-phonetic constraints by introducing lexical stress into the representations . |
| 10 | In the second , we applied lexicon-based constraints by implementing an heuristic which preferred longer words over short ones . |
| 11 | ‘ We lay great stress on them . |
| 12 | In a less than perfect world it is inevitable that government authorities will sometimes act illegally , and there may be a lot to be said for bringing the ‘ loss distribution ’ insights of modern tort theory to bear on the way we perceive public law compensation . |
| 13 | Yet we remain human beings with quivering flesh and throbbing nerves who need the small delights of emotional well-being . |
| 14 | This observation , that we remain uncritical observers in dreaming , forms an important part of some recent theorizing about dreaming by the psychophysiologist Allan Rechtschaffen , who has described dreams as being " isolated " and even " unimaginative " in the sense that we can not imagine something else during the action of a dream . |
| 15 | But I did argue when she insisted that we remain separated while on the planet . |
| 16 | Human society — without which we remain atomistic individuals , isolated and alone . |
| 17 | Now we pray for those who are not able to enjoy life to the full , through sickness , and we remember Winifred Andrews , Rob Dellar , Jack Bennett and Louis Muggleton … and keep silence as we bring other friends and relatives to your throne . |
| 18 | It is precisely in order to make sounder legal and moral judgments , and to evaluate their cost , that we bring economic analysis to a problem like insider trading . ’ |
| 19 | Yet we suffer ever-growing road congestion , the amelioration of which most thinking people now agree can not be achieved merely by building more roads . |
| 20 | When we suffer premenstrual symptoms , such as severe mood swings , our desire for sweet and starchy carbohydrates may surge . |
| 21 | When we suffer unbearable pain , we too anaesthetise . |
| 22 | At the beginning of Chapter 3 , in Table 3.1 , we divided financial institutions into two groups : those comprising the monetary sector and those which we called non-bank financial intermediaries , now ‘ NBFIs ’ for short . |
| 23 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
| 24 | When he joined the organization , and later , when the meetings of the high command were actually held in your own house , we made certain inquiries . |
| 25 | On the second anniversary of his kidnap , we made sure John was in the news . |
| 26 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
| 27 | Initially , partly sheltered by the great landmass of North Uist , we made good progress southwards . |
| 28 | We made good progress , but a combination of better health promotion , screening and treatment should deliver say , a twenty five per cent reduction by the end of the century . |
| 29 | Which we made good margins on . |
| 30 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |