Example sentences of "[conj] we [num ord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scholarly justification for studying " others " rather than " ourselves " is that , although we first perceive the others as exotic , we end up by recognizing in their " peculiarities " a mirror of our own . |
| 2 | It is also at Hatfield that we first get a clear glimpse of the tricky controversial personality of Cornelius Vermuyden . |
| 3 | For example , it is in the family that we first encounter the way in which people who have authority behave , and the differences in the way men and women behave . |
| 4 | It is not that , in the face of a system of chattel slavery , we first insist on counting everyone 's interests equitably and then see if slaves should be liberated ; it is that we first recognise the moral imperative to liberate them , on grounds other than counting equal interests equally . |
| 5 | ‘ It claims that we first select a particular task that we wish to carry out , and then select the appropriate machine which will enable us to perform this task . |
| 6 | Many hon. Members will remember that we last debated the provisions of a Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill on 16 April this year . |
| 7 | The ability of the firm to pay dividends will depend on its ability to generate earnings , so we next analyse the sources of the firm 's earnings growth . |
| 8 | When you were little and we first got the game you always used to want to get tummyaches and not the . |
| 9 | Part two is devoted to structure , part three to the hydrocarbons and we first meet the alkanes on page 500 . |
| 10 | Accordingly , if we first reduce a matrix A to triangular form we can then proceed to determine its reciprocal . |
| 11 | The contrast can only be appreciated if we first quote a more characteristic passage from the same episode : [ i ] That way nothing is accomplished , he thought . |
| 12 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 13 | I mean , we 've passed over it several times since we first heard the ticking and we 've triggered nothing . |
| 14 | Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's over an hour since we last used the tap , ’ April corrected her . |
| 16 | Which is actually two days before we next have a meeting which means I 'm gon na have to slap another one together in a big hurry . |
| 17 | The day after we first visited the castle , my sister and I were treated to a walk along the cliffs . |
| 18 | And as a result of that we really have got overcapacity which we 've declared publicly so , you know , we 're not saying anything different today than what we said when we first purchased the business in July and August . |
| 19 | David Picker recalled , ‘ When we first saw the film one afternoon , we were stunned by its magic and the magic of Hoffman and Voight together . |
| 20 | When we first saw the most attractive results of the restoration work effected by a young Roman couple on this old patrician residence , we felt immediately we simply had to introduce it to Citalia customers . |
| 21 | oh we might have a oh we did at first , when we first had the record player years ago did n't we ? |
| 22 | We defined the Greater York area erm erm initially in the in the late seventies , erm when we first ran a Greater York exercise , we redefined the area marginally in the middle , late eighties , erm erm and the definition that we have used for the Greater York study since then er is the one that we are talking about now . |
| 23 | When we first entered the Kremlin , |
| 24 | Meanwhile , when we first mentioned a new eight-way box coming from Sun we called it SunBox ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 25 | When we first cloned the human globin genes we realised that every cloned gene is person-specific , and therefore contains the particular sequences that instruct most of the features which we inherit and that determine our individuality . |
| 26 | Their house was the tallest on Thrush Green , and when we first meet the good doctor , in the book of that name , he is an elderly man contemplating retirement . |
| 27 | When we first arrived the Hunters existed in far greater numbers , and were suicidal in their assaults on some of our military attack ships ; they were controlled , though . ’ |
| 28 | When people talk about momentum in the EC , they do not mean what they used to mean when we first joined the Community , which was a momentum towards the market and towards removing barriers and obstacles : they mean momentum towards more central recycling of funds , more vast transfers of resources and more commitment by the central administration to the gigantic merry-go-round of redistribution . |
| 29 | When we first experience the desire to write , our writing voice may well be timid , weak , needy and underfed , so we need to feed it , to let the writer-self know that it is significant for us . |
| 30 | When we last surveyed the audit fees of the FT-SE 100 constituents ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1991 , p 12 ) , total audit fees rose by just over 2% , as compared with a much more buoyant 11% — although at the time considered to be modest — the year before ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1990 , p 14 ) . |