Example sentences of "we [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way to secure future prosperity is by embracing change not resisting it and as my honourable friend er indicates , by using our skills to best effect and competitively in a global market place were we to embrace the policies of members opposite in the European community we would shut the job , the door to the jobs which will come from that inward investment because we have opted out of the social chapter we do indeed have the opportunity that comes from being , if I may qui may quote er President Delors a pa a paradise for inward investment . |
| 2 | But how are we to sample the primaries with probability proportional to size ? |
| 3 | Particularly with insects , whose chitinous exoskeletons make it difficult to consider them in anthropomorphic terms , how are we to discover the extent to which they might be acting intelligently ? |
| 4 | Are we to replace the sands of Maplin with concrete plains ? |
| 5 | How then are we to view the procedure ? |
| 6 | For example , if Keith destroys ten brick towers and stabs six dolls with a plastic sword during his play therapy and subsequently attacks only one child during one day at nursery school , are we to record the number of towers , the number of stabs or the number of attacks ? |
| 7 | ‘ Who are we to defy the gods ? |
| 8 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |
| 9 | If the relationship between sign and reality is not natural but arbitrary , how are we to understand the sign 's ability to signify , the capacity of language to generate meaning ? |
| 10 | But even if it could , are we to outlaw the artist 's capacity to shock , to appal , to disturb profoundly in the interests of truth ? |
| 11 | Moreover even if these sceptical grumblings are set to one side , are we to interpret the proposition that there has been a secular rise in NAIRU as pointing to a rise in the natural unemployment rate ? |
| 12 | But how are we to interpret the symbolism of other cultures ; how can we crack their symbolic codes ? |
| 13 | Have we to lack the courage to support the radical reformists and break away Republics ? |
| 14 | How are we to measure the quality of primary care ? |
| 15 | First , are we to regard the welfare state , which fits uneasily , if at all , into a Marxist scheme , as a new type of state , which differs in fundamental respects from the state as it existed in the laissez-faire capitalist societies of the nineteenth century ? |
| 16 | For example , if the only way to be a subject is to be constituted by the existing ISAs , how are we to explain the fact that a theorist such as Connolly is so convinced of the necessity of intentional subjecthood , while Althusser views it as a contingency ? |