Example sentences of "[conj] we [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we never transformed the inquiry process into anything approaching a people 's tribunal , we did turn it into something much more accessible than many people had ever conceived . |
| 2 | There is an uncertainty in the sense that we today observe the universe to be in a state of expansion , that is the most distant galaxies and clusters and galaxies are all receding from one another at a high speed , which actually increases as you look farther and farther away from us . |
| 3 | I told her that we already had the tape and that she would have nothing to do but be there and play the role . |
| 4 | Let us assume that we already know the size of sample , the type of respondent ( child , housewife , air traveller , etc. ) , whether or not questions are to be asked on more than one occasion , whether there are likely to be seasonal fluctuations , whether the study is to be factual or attitudinal or both , and so on . |
| 5 | ‘ We , the undersigned , wish it to be known that we utterly condemn the evil and inhuman system of slave labour . |
| 6 | ‘ Although tennis was formally reinstated as an Olympic sport in 1981 , it was n't until 1987 , some four years after David had died , that we finally persuaded the IOC to allow all tennis players , including the professionals , to be eligible to compete , ’ he recalls . |
| 7 | Then we come onto the , the real sort of erm bread-and-butter forecasting world , and erm as you rightly say , most people are , think that we just do the radio and television forecasting , erm perhaps read the newspapers and see the forecasts there , but there 's much more to it than that . |
| 8 | Not that I 'm suggesting that we should be soft when children do wrong but that we just reverse the ratio of our attention and energy from the negative to the positive . |
| 9 | In addition to this , I think it is appropriate that we also take the opportunity to look ahead to the next three year phase , the developing work load of the adviser and the future development of FWAG in Lothian . |
| 10 | It 's much better , I feel , from the public 's point of view , for us simply to say ‘ Yes , I think although it will be cloudy until the latter end of the morning that we confidently expect the sun to break through , and then when it 's through it 'll stay with us through the afternoon . |
| 11 | I hope that we never reach the position that I have sometimes , although not often , met in my constituency , when I have received a phone call from a private home to the effect that it could no longer keep a patient who had perhaps become doubly incontinent . |
| 12 | And as this competition intensifies we should become more demanding so that we actually get the kind of services and products we want . |
| 13 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 14 | If anything , this would suggest that we actually overestimated the frequency of cisapride relapses , and underestimated the placebo relapse rate . |
| 15 | inge , we 're our own which means that we are , our problems are so limited that we actually carry the liability ourselves , we do n't even have to use an external company to get the rates on . |
| 16 | It 's just one word of warning that we actually strengthen the application received to the future to make sure again . |
| 17 | This year that we ever had the party . |
| 18 | ‘ We know now that we really lost the tie in Moscow , when we made the mistake of trying to chase the game instead of playing it tight . ’ |
| 19 | Erm I think that Vince has raised of very personal questions that we have ask about this erm the question of local accountability of the health authority board that will be created by this the to service this new joint health authority , would in fact , be the size of the existing one for West Essex and we would ha , have only a third of the representation that we currently have the whole of West Essex we 'll only have two non- executive members on the health authority board and I do n't think that that is terribly accountable but certainly a considerable reduction on what we 've got at the moment . |
| 20 | I assure hon. Members that we readily acknowledge the strength of feeling about that aspect of Sunday trading and will take it fully into account when we draw up proposals for the reform of the law . |
| 21 | Eric Hobsbawm suggests that we patiently await the coming of better times . |
| 22 | The landowner , Lord Wharncliffe , conscious of the loss of one of Britain 's greatest natural assets , immediately instructed his workmen to reconstruct the lip exactly as it was before , and it is to him that we now owe the sight of Hardraw Force in all its almost-original splendour . |
| 23 | Yet the paradox is that we only use the word hypocrisy when we have reasons for believing that we have found the thing itself . |
| 24 | We ate so much of it , it was so marvellous , that we hardly wanted the sausage and the ham , noticed only in passing that the wine was n't up to much , and that the eggs in the omelette which presently appeared were spanking fresh and buttercup yellow — in the French countryside one takes that for granted . |
| 25 | We should by now be familiar with the general formula for decomposing data : Data = Fit + Residual The process of smoothing time series also produces such a decomposition of the data except that we mainly use the alternative , more suggestive form of words . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 27 | Erm simply to remind you of the position of of Selby District in in that our interest in a new settlement emerged out of concern for the quality of life in existing villages in in Selby district , and concerns for the impact of future peripheral development in those villages , and not just peripheral development on the edge of York , although of course we acknowledge that as an important consideration and it is for that reason that we fully supported the County Council 's proposals in relation to greenbelt , erm you asked the question earlier in relation to the P P G advice and and the six criteria , erm in fact I 've already rehearsed that argument in my submission so I wo n't repeat it now , erm the fact that you chose to phrase the question that way I 'll take as a good omen as to the way I presented my submission , but it it it 's there for you to read again , the the the main point that I want to address is something that was raised by Mr Wincup yesterday , and that was the difference or not as between Selby district and Hambledon district , er M Mr Jewitt 's made reference earlier to his opposition to the new settlement , and in doing so he he he mentioned the settlement pattern in Hambledon district , he 'll correct me if I 'm wrong , but one of small dispersed villages , well in Selby district we do have villages of that nature , but the Northern part of of Selby district is significantly deferent to Hambledon , it 's characterized by much larger villages , and in fact the establishment of a new settlement would n't conflict with with the settlement pattern at all . |
| 28 | I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole . |
| 29 | ‘ So we fucking did the bastard . ’ |
| 30 | He knew and we knew that he was pretty hopeless at ball games , so we readily relinquished the bat to him in the hopes of another of his clowning sessions . |