Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] we [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not be said , on the other hand , that he goes very deep or that we can ever take the idea of Michael 's art very seriously . |
| 2 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 3 | We have a vetting panel which looks at all the vacancies that arise within the City Council , and decides whether it really is necessary to fill the job , or whether we can actually erm reorganize things and deliver the service with fewer people , so we are very conscious of the need to make sure that |
| 4 | Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics . |
| 5 | Left alone , we began to speculate about where we were and why , and where we would ultimately be taken . |
| 6 | It would have given us a base at least to operate from , a place where we could be contacted , and where we might even meet some of our fellow producers . |
| 7 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 8 | I would like to trace that film , but I do n't know where it is and where we could now see it . |
| 9 | We tried to tell ourselves that it was all some terrible mistake , and that we would soon be returning home . |
| 10 | I had already explained to Maxine that discovering the reason for the phobia would not in itself be a cure , and that we would still have to work together to overcome it . |
| 11 | Of course , being down to earth is one of Pam 's greatest strengths , and it 's good to know she 's back on track and that we 'll still be able to laugh with her for a while yet . |
| 12 | ‘ The golden rule of conduct , therefore , is mutual toleration seeing that we will never all think alike and that we shall always see Truth in fragment ( sic ) and from different angles of vision ’ . |
| 13 | They slid on to the bench opposite us , making pleasantries about how cold the weather had become and that we should soon be on the road for Somerset . |
| 14 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 15 | Early in the year , it had become apparent that the combination of recession and low growth was having a punishing effect on our downstream businesses and that we could no longer continue investing at our previously high levels . |
| 16 | I 'm very confident that if er we have er the best first class facilities and that we can actually attract er new supporters , we can attract their families and we can actually look after er children , we can look after anybody er that wants to either come to the game er with their family or friends . |
| 17 | We face Labour 's jibe that the Government holds all our revenue and that we can only save 20 per cent from our house sales . ’ |
| 18 | In effect , since socialisation is present as part of all social relationships , whether the parties to the relationship are aware of it or not , it is clear that it is a much more subtle , complex and pervasive process than it might at first appear and that we can only properly understand it as an aspect of all human activity . |
| 19 | Because I think that they and that we can only say the same again next year when our own , everything goes up and , I think it 's very sad that the church ca n't ! |
| 20 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 21 | We live in a historical period ; written records are kept and we tend to assume that our records are correct and that we can accurately reconstruct the events of the past . |
| 22 | He wants to argue that we do join civil societies and that we can under certain circumstances erm decide to quit them and , overall of course against Filmer he wants to argue that in this respect a civil society is radically different from the family . |
| 23 | Here , however , Colin is using modern physics to support Christianity , on the basis that science can not provide certain knowledge , and that we must therefore look elsewhere for certainty . |
| 24 | Now that 1992 has ended and a New Year has begun , I am confident that our Institute is in a strong position to deal with the challenges and opportunities which will come our way during 1993 , and that we will steadily ‘ go forward together and progress ’ . |
| 25 | As a result I undergo a bout of conscience , taking the short rod only when Odd-Knut assures me that we will eat whatever we catch , and that we will probably not catch anything . |
| 26 | Joan said : ‘ I want people to know that Brian has never been forgotten and that we will never give up hope that his murderer will be found . ’ |
| 27 | On the Scottish cruise I distinguished myself by bending our port propeller on a rock in the Caledonian Canal whilst negotiating a shallow bend , and although we could still use the bent prop I was very conscious of the faux pas with our Chairman on board . |
| 28 | Dorrainge said that at any minute Cathbad would start talking about holding a pig-sticking party , and Cathbad , who was plunging about happily in the wild sorrel , said , ‘ And if we could only hold a pig-sticking party … |
| 29 | And if we can just er just go back just for for one minute , just to draw a bit of before you were captured , er and whatnot , could you tell us just a little bit about the living conditions that you had when you were actually at the front . |
| 30 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |