Example sentences of "we [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed that a hospital was very much like a ship , and being under fire had made her like a man of war . |
| 2 | We met and a plan was conceived : Pete and Dick would get the next round in , then organise the logistics of food , route and transport . |
| 3 | As directors of WHO non-communicable disease collaborating centres and key officials in centres for non-communicable diseases we declare that a concerted global action needs to be initiated to develop national and regional infrastructures to alleviate the financial expense and cost in human suffering from non-communicable diseases in the next millennium . |
| 4 | After about a month , we realised that a catastrophe had taken place . |
| 5 | Even more dangerous is it when we insist that a man of two thousand years ago meant what we mean in so contentiously abstract a sphere as religious faith . |
| 6 | We expected that a number — perhaps an embarrassingly large number — of students would decide that they simply did not like our courses , and we were prepared to smooth the path of transfer . |
| 7 | How the WO calculates future housing need — we asked if a distinction could be made between the quantitative factors and the qualitative assumptions/aspirations , including political objectives . |
| 8 | In Chapter 9 we argued that a private monopolist would make higher profits if it were possible to price-discriminate , charging different prices to customers whose demand curves were effectively distinct . |
| 9 | Yes , if by this we mean that a third party could urge this on the dog 's behalf and that sanctions of the law might well ensue . |
| 10 | To assert those alternatives and to insist upon them we mean that a designer should cease to be the industrial Eichmann of a large corporation . |
| 11 | ‘ First , are we to accept that a man waded through water up to his neck to tie a noose to hang himself ? |
| 12 | This is a result that is much easier to account for if we suggest that a body clock is responsible for the alternation between sleep and activity . |
| 13 | We seem to be on firmer ground , however , if we suggest that a singer who draws upon a training in the English choral tradition will not readily perform in a way that is bogus , trivial or solipsistic , for the choral tradition is none of those things ; it embodies the results of countless individual strivings for the best results in conformity to a communal discipline . |
| 14 | We cheer when a meerkat eats up a scorpion or a rattlesnake just for the hell of it . |
| 15 | A few months ago we mentioned that a computerised welfare benefits package was available from a medical school research and development team in London . |
| 16 | How can we know that a pupil derives satisfaction from ( in this case ) the learning tasks in which he/she is engaged ? |
| 17 | But we disagree that a third party with power of attorney can see the patient 's records ’ , said Per Hors , the DMA 's chairman . |
| 18 | We expect that a considerable number of these were teenagers with occasional/part. time jobs or school leavers picked up by special employment measures . |
| 19 | We expect that a significant number will choose to continue with both , at least until Standard Grade in S4 . |
| 20 | Because much of the erupted magma was gas-poor , we propose that a subsurface connection exists between the intrusion and the summit feeder conduit ( Fig. 3 ) allowing gas to escape at the summit craters . |
| 21 | We propose that a transformed cell develops in the proliferative compartment of the lower part of the crypt , divides several times , and moves upwards with migration of the normal crypt epithelium . |
| 22 | Mr Pienaar 's spokesman said : ‘ The Administrator-General is very disturbed that with the evidence at our disposal we realise that a situation could be building up which could lead to the ultimate defeat of the aims and objectives of Resolution 435 . ’ |
| 23 | As well as recognising the fact that we need to get on with landowners , we realise that a strong relationship with local authorities is critical . |
| 24 | As Stephen Leacock and I walked down the street after that luncheon we found that a small crowd of students was gathered around the white statue . |
| 25 | We found that a number of enterprises had defined this model and published it in internal documents for managers . |
| 26 | In Chapter ii we found that a good deal of social science has been informed by this view ; but it is nevertheless natural to wonder why individualism should be excluded from the group of disciplines that aim to provide us with a grasp of the social world . |
| 27 | We found that a lot of young couples that because you do n't go to church on a regular basis but erm , to go along with their parents ' wishes too , rather than going through a big church wedding in a church , they go to a hotel and they have the erm , wedding ceremony and the reception all in the hotel , and are married by a minister . |
| 28 | We found that a previous scheme , which was designed to help the machine tool industry — the small engineering investment scheme — was distorting business decisions . |
| 29 | In reality it 's nowhere near as bad as the Scouse hype during the 80's , it 's just that we found that a bit easier to take . |
| 30 | erm I think we found that a school has , it 's very important for a school to get the relationship right with individual parents in talking about their children , and how their own children are progressing , and that 's quite a different kind of relationship from the one between schools and a body of parents about general school policy . |