Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb mod] [verb] is " in BNC.

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31 The only thing we would say is that we must have a clear vision of our formal and stylistic intentions before we begin .
32 What follows from that is that the last thing we should do is to introduce policies that are almost specifically designed simply to increase unemployment .
33 What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives .
34 That 's the sort of thing we should have is n't it .
35 Now the other thing we should remember is that between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two , certainly in the early nineteen eighties , eighty , eighty one , we were in the midst of a recession and so that should tell us that really people should have less money to spend on holidays .
36 The first thing we must do is to defeat the MacSharry proposals that target British farm workers , and particularly those relating to sheepmeat , which represent a direct attack on those who work in British agriculture — not merely those who own or rent farms but those employed on them .
37 Since it is replication we are interested in , the first thing we must know is , can crystals replicate their structure ?
38 One thing one thing we could do is erm reduce or not not photo-reduce but just cut out the middle of a sheet of the headed notepaper , then you get two two ha er two A five things but that way round .
39 So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway .
40 I think we should therefore hold the fight until a clear pattern emerges and certainly avoid international incidents which might tempt the Red Army , either at Union level or in the Republics and finally I think perhaps one useful thing we could do is too assist initially , and I stress initially , well disposed Republics with bread and sausages .
41 Often the most useful thing we can do is something obvious and practical that other people may be overlooking in their attempt to be helpful .
42 The worst thing we can do is become pred-ictable . ’
43 The only thing we can do is to send our spies to watch Leeds United and Stuttgart .
44 The other thing we can do is to retrace our steps leading to eqn ( 2.22 ) .
45 But the worst thing we can do is nothing . "
46 Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not .
47 I think the best thing we can do is leave any talk of work until tomorrow and concentrate on the real reason why we agreed to this evening and get to know one another better . ’
48 There 's one thing we can do is take one from t' other .
49 Mr Blackburn said : ‘ The only thing we can do is educate people so they realise HIV and Aids are not a scourge from God but an illness . ’
50 let me , the o the other thing we can do is if it 's broken the shop can send it back but the man , the other person pays .
51 O K so look let me just go through these notices er for today 's tutorial period , one or two changes erm again a thought for the week from the chaplain to begin with , during the approaching season of Lent , the best thing we can do is to centre our thoughts on what Jesus Christ did for us through his passion , death and resurrection .
52 The first thing we can say is definitely the strength of the pound .
53 The sort of information we would like is : What sort of degree do you have ?
54 A consequence is that the kind of information we can glean is strictly limited — compared , at any rate , with that available for well-documented modern societies — but the results are still sufficiently significant to justify the effort .
55 The amount of information we can derive is increased by certain factors : the tendency of language to use certain sequences of sounds and not others , familiar sequences of words , systematic syntactic rules and the frame of expectation which surround an utterance .
56 That is , we can see that the answer we should give is , ‘ You ca n't , short of giving an entirely new meaning to ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , and why should you want to do that ? ’
57 But if you want to run Windows , then the minimum specification we 'd recommend is a 20MHz 386SX with 4Mb of RAM and a 50Mb hard disk .
58 But if you want to run Windows , then the minimum specification we 'd recommend is a 20MHz 386SX with 4Mb of RAM and 50Mb hard disk .
59 Interrupted or not , the extant text of the Interludium ends exactly at the end of a line and sentence , which by reference to Dame Sirith we can argue is the end of this particular speech from Mome Elwis .
60 When a particular component of is needed we refer to it by it suffix thus Another convention we shall use is the so-called summation or Einstein convention , namely that in any expression repeated suffixes imply summation over the range 1 to 3 .
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