Example sentences of "we [vb base] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slavish conformity is not what we want of a child . |
| 2 | What I can say , however , is that the constructivist position allows a distinctive analysis of the ‘ mental ’ when we speak of a ‘ mental representation of a green patch ’ : it helps us to understand the difference between mental representations and the non-mental variety ( a photograph for example ) . |
| 3 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 4 | When we speak of a man of property , we may think , perhaps , in one of two ways . |
| 5 | We speak of a mother sacrificing her life for her children . |
| 6 | There are various contexts in which we speak of a person or institution being an authority . |
| 7 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 8 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 9 | From their written works it would appear that most psychologists up to about 1935 have assumed that these three things , separately or together , must constitute the whole of what we mean when we speak of a person feeling a touch as a touch on his shoulder or a pain as a pain in his foot . |
| 10 | We speak of a revolution ; and yet this intellectual transformation took so long to accomplish that there is no straightforward parallel with a political revolution . |
| 11 | In many cases we speak of a given condition as cause and it is the one action or piece of behaviour involved , something to which responsibility attaches . |
| 12 | On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shooting stars that we speak of a star or meteor shower . |
| 13 | In the world of nations on their shorter timescale , when two enemies each progressively improve their weaponry in response to the other side 's improvements , we speak of an ‘ arms race ’ . |
| 14 | When , in the same context , we speak of an option , we are sure , generally of only one element — the right of the taker to exercise or abandon an option . |
| 15 | The other instance : we are told on unimpeachable authority that a woman is looking forward to the birth of her daughter ; years later we read of a young man arriving on the scene . |
| 16 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 17 | Every so often , we are startled , such as when we read of an expatriate black South African who longs for apartheid : ‘ At least in South Africa I knew what I was fighting against . |
| 18 | But as Lazaris reminds us , money ( like nature ) is just a set of vibrations , an illusion that we create — and we can have as much as we like of an illusion ! |
| 19 | Asked one angry betting shop punter : ‘ Why is it only afterwards that we hear of a betting coup ? |
| 20 | In short , when we hear of a peaceful society , we are likely to envision a society that is somehow the antithesis of the self-absorbed individualism of the modern urban-industrial world . |
| 21 | We hear of a visit to late fifth-century Thessaly by Gorgias of Leontini , the celebrated orator and sophist , and of actual interference by Kritias ( p. 83 ) . |
| 22 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 23 | At the time of the second General Election of 1701 we hear of a club of Tory MPs who subscribed a guinea a head for batches of Davenant 's papers to be given away among acquaintances " as antidotes against the poison that is spread by the other side , who spare no cost to scatter their libels … round the kingdom " . |
| 24 | DOWN under being the truly operative phrase , we hear of a stunning revelation about how our Antipodean cousins ‘ sex ’ a grape . |
| 25 | ‘ We know of a case where the driver abused the car because of a superstition — there was a number 13 on the number plate . ’ |
| 26 | His critics have pointed out that Godric 's is an isolated story , whereas we know of a number of instances in which leading city magnates were recruited from local landed families , in Italy , in England and elsewhere . |
| 27 | We do not know of any other reports of a similar nature but we know of a lady whose left hip joint was completely destroyed as a result of rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 28 | we know of a tenant who would take the whole of their building ; |
| 29 | We know of a person from Churchstoke who has taken a Video of the remains of the old trackbed , but so far this Video has not been seen . |
| 30 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |