Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employee share ownership trusts are a relatively small part of the Government 's provision of tax relief for employee share ownership , but it would be very nice to hear the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , East ( Mr. Brown ) express on behalf of the Labour Front Bench wholehearted enthusiasm for what we believe in , which is giving employees in companies real ownership of the companies that they work for . |
| 2 | They have furnished a good deal of what we know about Jupiter . |
| 3 | We must be equally concerned about the effect of what we do on engine drivers . |
| 4 | Another approach , exemplified by Vygotsky and Donaldson , supposes that children 's pictures — like all other aspects of their behaviour — must be interpreted in the light of what we know about the context in which the picture is produced and the culture in which the child operates . |
| 5 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |
| 6 | The Horses ' sequence ( of which Nos.1 to 49 are also illustrated here ) provided " a dictionary of what we do to an image " . |
| 7 | Let us begin then with a brief review of what we know about the ego 's past in order all the better to be able to understand something about its present and future . |
| 8 | Erm the speed with which we dealt with item one is encouraging or rather it 's somebody might be but item two again maybe if proposals which perhaps er a little controversy . |
| 9 | They certainly express viewpoints which find echoes among his contemporaries and they are not out of key with what we know of his character and of his piety , which was manifested in his crusading enthusiasm , the expulsion of the Jews , the Eleanor crosses , the foundation of Vale Royal abbey and his almsgiving . |
| 10 | In the process we should critically re-evaluate how we understand the relationship between research , policy and practice in childcare and research , policy and practice in what we refer to as child abuse and child protection work . |
| 11 | came to , asked for a briefing on what we did in Estonia and then said , can we give you seventy thousand pounds so you can spend on projects in Estonia , so they got seventy thousand pounds off your Government . |
| 12 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 13 | Some distance from the rock on which we sat in conference conferring about the future of the world , if that does n't sound too pompous — an angsana stood , a large tropical tree , its branches full of birds to which I paid no attention . |
| 14 | It is a matter of common sense that part of what we respect in persons is a technical appreciation of the sheer range of possibilities associated with them . |
| 15 | That , after all , is part of what we mean by ‘ professor ’ : x is so on top of his or her subject that he or she has something to profess , to convey , to teach . |
| 16 | At the most general conceptual level of what we mean by good neighbouring , the ideas are tapping very thorny problems of the sources of social cohesion and solidarity . |
| 17 | Other subtle philosophical discussions concerned the contrast between the objective reality of the instant and the ideal nature of duration , because the latter is a mental construct , whereas the former is experienced ( the opposite of what we think in the West today ) . |
| 18 | In the Italian analogues the wife 's punishment is her realization that she has been tricked , and the implication that her " lover " did not consider her worth spending his own money on ; there , this is reflected by the wife 's helplessness when the trick is sprung — quite the opposite of what we have in the Shipman 's Tale . |
| 19 | And if enough of us are prepared to give a donation — just a proportion of what we spend on our own families and friends at Christmas — we can reach that precious goal of Universal Child Immunisation by the end of 1990 . |
| 20 | I think we have to say that er I would imagine that plans are well advanced for the nineteen ninety/ninety one/ninety two settlement , er so it may not be immediately that er we will get the benefit of what we said to him . |
| 21 | Not all of those , of course , as already noted , are reasonable-above all , any wholesale dismissal of what we get by direct awareness is entirely futile . |
| 22 | This immediately raises the question of what we mean by the separation of two particles A and B. It seems the best we can do is argue that the two particles A and B can be considered as separate only when the individual wave packets cease to overlap . |
| 23 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 24 | Just as industrial policy is related to competition policy , so it is closely related to international trade policy , an issue to which we return in Chapter 32 . |
| 25 | Tanzania 's 1990 investment promotion decree , promulgated after lengthy internal political debate , illustrates just how troublesome are the dilemmas for the poorest countries ; a question to which we return in chapter 7 . |
| 26 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |
| 27 | Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up Pound 's ideas about the right relation between artist and patron against what we know of how patronage in fact worked in the ducal fiefs of Renaissance Italy ; and when he deals with the closeness of Pound 's views on this and related matters to Ruskin 's ideas ( a theme common to all these essayists ) , Robinson dares to broach the too long forbidden topic of the poet 's antagonism — inertly received , so some would say , rather than considered — to Christian faith and Christian ethics . |
| 28 | They move mainly by climbing , gripping with their flexible toes and progressing with the ease with which we walk on level ground . |
| 29 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 30 | There is certainly a great deal to substantiate this distinction in what we know of early Greek thought … |