Example sentences of "we [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We do this , notionally , in any matrix multiplication : if we are performing the operation BC = A then we isolate a row of B and a column of C — respectively ( 1 × n ) and ( n × 1 ) submatrices — to produce an element — i.e. a ( 1 × 1 ) submatrix of A. Similarly , we could , for example , isolate the first three rows of B and the first four columns of C and multiply these submatrices , of order ( 3 × n ) and ( n × 4 ) , to give a ( 3 × 4 ) submatrix in the top left corner of A. Again , since unc it makes no different if we divide the range , s , of summation into subranges ; each subrange can be summed , and these sums added to give the total .
2 Whenever we lose a goal we look like losing two or three .
3 We lose a sense of an owl being an owl , a duck being duck , an oak being an oak tree .
4 We lose a holiday for to get an hour off the working week .
5 That 's a pity , since we lose a linking passage which contains delectable music .
6 It is a commonplace observation that if we lose a night 's sleep we tend to sleep a bit longer on subsequent nights , as if to make up a " sleep debt " .
7 You mentioned earlier on that that perhaps er like with Guy Fawkes , there 's a lot of things that come from the past , from our history and we lose Perhaps we lose a bit of sight about where they 've come from .
8 We lose a lot of credibility when this happens .
9 " Well , " he said , " we think we lose a lot of aircraft , because we have been monitoring quite a — few they just disappear from the radar screen 50 miles off the coast , sometimes more , sometimes halfway across the sea if they are making a dash far Flamborough Head .
10 What happens if we connect a resistance RL across the terminals of coil 2 ?
11 Rather , it is entirely by virtue of the sign in question that we distinguish a class of objects trees from other objects such as bushes , etc .
12 As it was I think we upset a lot of our own supporters , and others in the country , without any real gain in the long run .
13 Whether or not we perceive an event in the world around us depends on three things .
14 When we perceive an object there is an idea of it ‘ present to ’ our mind .
15 We highlight a number of examples ( from the literature ) which point to the important relationship between exothermicities of molecular associations and the entropic benefit of residual motions and vibrations in understanding this phenomenon .
16 We are very conscious of the fact that we remain a North Western company supported by North Western customers and a North Western staff .
17 The fact is we remain an island power and can not ignore the sea however close we may be to the Continent .
18 Well we bring a ball for Rocket and he 'll , he 'll run to it and then he 'll walk off and leave it , so we have to keep , we have to keep finding it .
19 French filmmakers produce several hundred movies a year , while in Britain and Ireland we declare a boom if we get into double figures .
20 We lack a vision of what kind of company we want to be and a strategy .
21 This technique fails for the central question of how to write the relativistic law of gravitation because Newton 's law of gravitation is not compatible with SR and so we lack a starting point .
22 Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word .
23 An uneasy feeling that we should wait to be asked back before we repeat an invitation , coupled with the rarity with which we have the energy to entertain , can reduce social intercourse to an annual gesture rather than a matter of maturing friendships .
24 The idea that you you you look at people and you try to calculate the way in which they work , and and and how their behaviour and how their relationships affect other people I think we display a degree of not knowing very much about that , do n't we ?
25 We eat a meal costing about 50p in all .
26 Oh and we eat a lot of baked beans
27 ‘ At this stage we will have to wait and see what state they are in before we make a decision . ’
28 Such a dismissive attitude , which fails to see research as part of a professional task , seems to me unhelpful because whenever we make a decision , it is based on assumptions and values .
29 In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere .
30 Although the plan has been superimposed over an existing plan , erm , to be charitable it 's at best confusing , erm , my feeling is that in actual fact the plan there does n't actually show us , well enough , and you may consider that we ought to be asking for a much clearer plan before we make a decision .
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