Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the previous section , we sought to show that the black population suffers from a series of multiple disadvantages and is often , moreover , heavily geographically concentrated in inner-city areas . |
| 2 | When we ascribe a quality to an object we intend to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects . |
| 3 | We intend to ensure that the Bill passes speedily . |
| 4 | We tend to think that the Pharisees were unscrupulous , double-dealing , untrustworthy . |
| 5 | When things go wrong we tend to assume that the police have offended , rather than that they were defeated by real cognitive problems . |
| 6 | Although we offer holiday packages , we tend to find that the Citalia holidaymaker is often more discerning . |
| 7 | This is a very sophisticated procedure , but only in the most metaphorical sense would we want to say that the computer has a theory of the external world . |
| 8 | Still less do we want to know if the production of the book or research paper represented a learning experience for the academic concerned . |
| 9 | I E do we need to know that the trend is changing or do we need to know the particular slots where we get non performance . |
| 10 | For our present purpose , however , the important point is that a hierarchical pattern is what we expect to see if the objects being classified have originated by a process of branching . |
| 11 | If we want to argue that the causal mechanism is fairly direct , we have to control for similar intervening variables . |
| 12 | In terms of growth that we actually want erm unlike I think perhaps one of the we do n't want to put all our eggs into erm one one basket erm one million pounds in terms of er of course we want to do that the income of the budget which is actually feasible and practicable er in terms of of I take it that as where it says the Liberal Democrats are going from a growth of a hundred and fifty million erm on town centres that there probably was an error . |
| 13 | We want to stress that the term ’ minority ’ is in no way a reference to the importance of the work carried out by health visitors and nurses in the community , such as district nurses , community psychiatric nurses , school nurses , residential care nurses , occupational health nurses , practice nurses , nurse practitioners as well as those nurses who are working in terminal care . |
| 14 | If we want to infer that the relationship between X and Y is a direct causal effect , rather than an indirect causal effect , a third assumption must be made : |
| 15 | If we want to indicate that the man is not going to ride a specific horse but any horse or horses in general , then we can move yarraman into the dative case which is marked by the suffix ku . |
| 16 | We want to ensure that the drive to save money , to reduce bureaucracy and raise quality is powerfully led from the centre of government . |
| 17 | Let's face it , we 're quite selfish in the fact that we want to ensure that the area that we live in is safe for us and not too concerned that three or four estates down the road unless it starts to affect us . |
| 18 | Through our joint efforts , we hope to ensure that the new qualifications are relevant to the needs of the thousands of students and trainees now embarked on general SVQ programmes across the country . |
| 19 | We came to think that the two features were of the same date , as there was no construction trench cut into the rampart front for the insertion of the wall . |
| 20 | The analysis is usually based on the strict modernism which was the ideology of the professions involved , and is epitomized in comments such as ‘ we seem to find that the aesthetics of an industrial product will take care of themselves automatically after we have provided a balance between function , simplicity and utility ’ ( Bayley 1979 : 71 ) . |
| 21 | If the animal lived on the sea bottom , it seems unlikely that it would have eye lenses specialized for looking downwards , and we begin to suspect that the animal habitually dwelt above the sea floor . |
| 22 | He then goes on to say that after her death he loved her more than when she was alive — this leads us into a trap , for we begin to feel that the old man was a ghoulish sentimentalist . |
| 23 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 24 | ‘ We like to think that the programme is n't in competition with Barry Norman , but we do want to give him a run for his money . ’ |
| 25 | We like to think that the arrangement of books has been brought to a fine art , so it was good to hear the verdict of Evening News reporter Bob Watt that there was ‘ bookshop tranquillity ’ and that you could ‘ feel the order . ’ |
| 26 | With some hindsight we began to realise that the design and control of large systems can not be successfully accomplished without exceedingly large quantities of information . |
| 27 | As one course followed another we began to wonder whether the meal would ever end . |
| 28 | We began to realize that the period of greatest prosperity and rebuilding was after AD 380 . |
| 29 | Eventually we began to feel that the Inspector had at least some leanings towards our point of view . |
| 30 | It is about time that we started to realise that the financial centre of London is not the key to our success . |