Example sentences of "we [vb base] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We soak the feet in nice , erm , antiseptic soapy water , and when we think the feet have soaked enough for the skin to become soft , we take the feet out and then we rub with a foot file to get rid of the hard skin . |
| 2 | The reason why company law should have been so concerned to legitimate the power of corporate managers is that this power potentially threatens the political-economic organization we associate with a liberal democracy . |
| 3 | This is called " sensitive dependence on initial conditions " , a phenomenon which persists even when the strange invariant set becomes attracting ( see below ) and which gives the typical " chaotic " , " turbulent " or " pseudo-random " behaviour which we associate with a " strange attractor " . |
| 4 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 5 | It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism . |
| 6 | We conclude with a brief discussion of the interaction of some recent participatory initiatives with the local representative system of democracy . |
| 7 | After a more general treatment of the direct vs indirect tax debate , we conclude with a brief look at recent reforms of local taxation and social security benefits . |
| 8 | We conclude with a discussion of floating-rate notes . |
| 9 | We conclude with an overview . |
| 10 | Similarly , C. S. Lewis 's The Allegory of Love is praised by Kathleen Tillotson for charting the nature and evolution of two " principles " , or fundamental movements of the human mind — romantic love and allegory : " It is rarely that we meet with a work of literary criticism of such manifest and general importance as this . " |
| 11 | From this again , if we read with an eye to the preceding context , we can draw further conclusions of a social nature . |
| 12 | The next shot is of the traffic itself , and we pan with a quaint three-wheel vehicle as it passes by on its way to market with a cargo of onions . |
| 13 | The guiding principle is that our minds are more active when we view with a purpose . |
| 14 | We begin with a walk through the town centre , full of timbered houses and medieval street names . |
| 15 | This shows how far Wordsworth has moved since the Preface to Lyrical Ballads , and on what subjects he feels compelled to address his readers ; this time there is no discussion of the theory or poetry , but we begin with a review of the Poor Law Amendment Act ( 1834 ) . |
| 16 | We begin with a study of the categories of offence . |
| 17 | We begin with a brief look at the official figures , since , whatever the shortcomings of these statistics , and no matter how distorted a picture of ‘ real ’ crime they portray , they do nevertheless have real effects , since they are used , for example , in political debate and inform , at least partially , the public 's perception of the crime problem . |
| 18 | We begin with a more general discussion of all forms of imperfect competition and monopoly power . |
| 19 | We begin with a brief and necessarily incomplete review of UK statistics ; the general provisions are typical of what is available in countries of the Western world . |
| 20 | We begin with an exploded concept , for ‘ mind ’ no longer signifies the entity it once did . |
| 21 | We begin with an illustration of the situation in ( iii ) above ; the reader is invited to check the arithmetic . |
| 22 | Suppose we begin with an existential hypothesis , without being able to point to any confirming evidence . |
| 23 | It is a journey in time , which we begin with an experience which completely absorbs our attention but which , at a certain psychological point , demands change . |
| 24 | In order to explore this more fully , we begin with an explicit general equilibrium model , but based on simple assumptions about savings . |
| 25 | Turning now to a social security system financed solely by employers we begin with an equilibrium wage at W1 and employment at L1 ( Fig. 6.5 ) . |
| 26 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
| 27 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |
| 28 | Right , yes it 's quite often aggressive people passive people who like maybe having passive people around and just needs somebody to walk over to shout at and behaving in an aggressive way , so maybe we have to go aggressive when we deal with an aggressive person . |
| 29 | We close with a cautionary note : one should bear in mind that a source of potential confusion always present is the fact that certain verbs lend themselves to occurrence with more than one type of adjectival construction , and to illustrate let us observe that any of the following , with their different modes of interpretation , are fully acceptable sentences of English : ( 72 ) Mackay preferred the picture stolen ( postnominal attributive ) ( 73 ) Shelagh prefers her holidays adventurous ( predicate qualifier ) ( 74 ) we prefer the king ( to be ) beheaded ( clausal ) |
| 30 | Finally , in transition to the next chapter , we close with an awkward point about truth . |