Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we would get into trouble if we failed to notice that there was a blocked gas lid in the wall that someone could fall over . |
| 2 | We failed to realise that product life was more important than machinery life . |
| 3 | Moreover , we failed to find that Helicobacter pylori is associated with reduced acute mucosal injury and the relevance of haemorrhagic lesions in patients taking NSAIDs to the development of important clinical lesions has recently been questioned . |
| 4 | Well perhaps to se se se er , you know streamline or rationalise what we 're doing I mean you know , we can we 've asked that we actually hand you in our section on this , right ? |
| 5 | In the past we sought to monitor and control all the major variables in a business . |
| 6 | We sought to investigate whether differences in the behaviour of 140k and Vmw175 in autoregulation assays could be explained by variations in their DNA binding specificities . |
| 7 | In the previous section , we sought to show that the black population suffers from a series of multiple disadvantages and is often , moreover , heavily geographically concentrated in inner-city areas . |
| 8 | We intend to proceed and shall resolve the contract at the earliest possible date . |
| 9 | That is what we intend to do and we intend to do it on the basis of the criteria erm that we have set out . |
| 10 | That is what we intend to do when we remove the Government from office at the earliest opportunity . |
| 11 | But if they , we will , we will not allow them within this area which we intend to demolish and rebuild . |
| 12 | When we ascribe a quality to an object we intend to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects . |
| 13 | That more exact calculation has , I think , met with general approval and as I said in my statement about our proposal for council tax benefit in a written answer on 28 November , we intend to maintain that closer alignment in the wake of the changes in local taxation that are intended to take effect in April 1993 . |
| 14 | We intend to ensure that the Bill passes speedily . |
| 15 | Not only that — we intend to increase and extend the right of access to an appellate system , which does not exist at the moment . |
| 16 | ‘ We intend to reform as well as spending more money in order to get the most out of that money for the patients . |
| 17 | We tend to serve and finish off complete units of food as provided for us by manufacturers . |
| 18 | We tend to think that the Pharisees were unscrupulous , double-dealing , untrustworthy . |
| 19 | If he fails dismally to adjust to the norm , or fights hard against it , we tend to think that he is maladjusted . |
| 20 | With the modern image in mind of the independent , liberated woman , we tend to think that we should be able to cope alone , without the need for someone else 's support and company . |
| 21 | We tend to think that it is a modern problem , trying to set up the best lifestyle so that the need for personal commitment to the home is balanced with other social and career activities . |
| 22 | ‘ We tend to think that it 's a problem restricted to the Republikana Party in Germany or the Fascist followers of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France . |
| 23 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 24 | We biologists have assimilated the idea of genetic evolution so deeply that we tend to forget that it is only one of many possible kinds of evolution . |
| 25 | The idea of doing our duty is deeply ingrained in most people , and we tend to forget that children do not come into the world armed with standards of moral and social behaviour . |
| 26 | Being overweight is a physical problem , of course , but we tend to forget that if affects the mental health of sufferers , too . |
| 27 | In our near-sighted way of looking at the stratigraphical column , we tend to forget that these recent events , if considered on the normal geological time-scale , were virtually instantaneous and certainly catastrophic . |
| 28 | I think we tend to forget that we are willing to trust the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , who in recent years has most usually doubled as the Chairman of the Conservative Party a very dubious appointment no doubt in the minds of many er of er your Lordships House . |
| 29 | We live in a historical period ; written records are kept and we tend to assume that our records are correct and that we can accurately reconstruct the events of the past . |
| 30 | We tend to assume that significant rituals are only found in ‘ primitive ’ societies and in state ceremonies such as the Coronation . |