Example sentences of "as we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pushing and shoving among that lot , no fear , ’ I said as we struck out for the woods . |
| 2 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 3 | I hung a left and wondered about the driver 's door which parted company with us as we struck a portside wall . |
| 4 | Prostitutes became necessary as a result of monogamy since , as we noted , monogamy both forbids sexual freedom in wives and encourages it in husbands . |
| 5 | The intercept is the value of Y when X is zero , a pretty meaningless value when X is a mortality rate , as we noted above ; we just treat it as a scaling factor , needed to predict a given Y value from a given X value . |
| 6 | On the contrary , as we noted earlier , his equilibrium model is a mobile one . |
| 7 | It is also useful to analyse the average duration of unemployment because , as we noted above , long-term unemployment is a more serious problem than short-term . |
| 8 | As we noted in the previous chapter , the nation of Israel occupied a central place in the realisation of this hope , serving as the gathering-point of the nations ( Isa. 24:23 ; Zech. 14:9 ; Obad. 21 ) . |
| 9 | As we noted previously , ‘ Kingdom ’ is a dynamic concept which might better be rendered ‘ Kingly rule or government ’ . |
| 10 | As we noted at the beginning of the chapter , white , middle-class churches in Britain have a poor ‘ track record ’ on relating to artisan , West Indian and Asian cultures . |
| 11 | The idea that femaleness is part of the definition of the word wife seems relatively reasonable ; but questions arise when one considers that — as we noted above — gender seems to be a conceptual component in many unrelated lexical items ; and that oppositions often function covertly as hierarchies , which means it may not be a neutral fact that this system represents women as the negative of men . |
| 12 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 13 | Also , as we noted earlier , in the case of Australia government arbitration directly promoted the formation and growth of unions . |
| 14 | ( This shift in bargaining level has , as we noted , been most apparent in the engineering Md chemical industries . ) |
| 15 | As we noted in Chapter 2 many unions regarded themselves as being part of a socialist-oriented labour movement directed towards a fundamental reconstruction of society . |
| 16 | In the post-war period , both Weber and Schumpeter 's ideas considerably influenced pluralist theory , as we noted above ( pp. 51 — 3 ) , so much so that their fundamental acceptance of elite theory patterns of argument was often ignored or lost sight of . |
| 17 | Electoral competition partly cuts across the struggles of functional elites , and , as we noted above , party leaders elected to government are Janus-faced : both statal and societal elites . |
| 18 | As we noted in Chapter 1 , both forms of reward can have a marked effect on behaviour . |
| 19 | Presidents are obliged to tread carefully ; as we noted , they are expected to lead , but they must do so without stirring up age-old resentments and suspicions . |
| 20 | In the first place , as we noted earlier , in order to justify binding legal obligations , choice theories must isolate those cases of a special exercise of choice where a binding legal commitment is consistent with respect for private autonomy . |
| 21 | As we noted in the last chapter , to say that a decision or action is subject to judicial review is to say that it can be challenged on the basis of the rules and principles of public law which define the grounds of judicial review . |
| 22 | As we noted above , judicial review actions may be either private actions or public actions or hybrid actions . |
| 23 | As we noted earlier , these capital inflows have financed the current account deficits . |
| 24 | Government expenditure G is determined by political decisions , as we noted in Chapter 6 . |
| 25 | Local government has its origins , as we noted in Chapter 2 , in the growing urbanisation of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | As we noted at the start , the policy concerns of the country in which academics work are an important factor in determining the kind of International Relations that they will study . |
| 27 | As we noted , the three wise men came seeking ‘ the infant King of the Jews ’ . |
| 28 | And , as we noted , the movement of which Jesus and his followers seem to have been a part regarded the Maccabean regime as a prototype for their own aspirations . |
| 29 | As we noted earlier , the Nazarean hierarchy , at the beginning of the second century , was directed by two brothers , James and Jude , who are specifically identified as grandsons of Jesus 's brother . |
| 30 | At the same time , he also drew heavily on a strictly Judaic body of material , including numerology and other forms of early Cabalism — which , as we noted previously , were firmly rooted in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sources . |