Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda .
2 Then we launch into the unknown future .
3 In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body .
4 We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns .
5 But I will plan ahead , even if we crash into the Fourth Division .
6 We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range .
7 Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole .
8 Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children .
9 If we pivot in the first of these , as indicated in the tableau , we obtain P3/T2 in which θ = θ .
10 The weather is glorious , so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes , and find a hitherto undiscovered park .
11 " It has been dinned into the ears of our members without hesitation or scruple , and we repeat with the greatest force at our command that seamen , to whatever class they may belong , are false to themselves , to their cause and to their country in taking any course that may , even in the smallest degree , weaken the hands of those responsible for the conduct of the present campaign against the most ignoble foe that it has ever become Britain 's duty to tackle " .
12 An approximation we make about the actual behaviour enables us to model this behaviour in a dynamic framework without complicating the estimation .
13 It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’
14 For now , we concentrate on the real sector of the economy ( that is , the markets for goods and services and for labour ) .
15 Hence we concentrate on the user-catalogue interaction and on the interactive dialogue in particular with user and catalogue system inputs having equal importance .
16 Here we concentrate on the 55 miles which pass through Kent .
17 We can probably be most influential if we concentrate on the following issues :
18 We concentrate on the famous multiplier-accelerator theory , so this is a good point at which to review your understanding of the multiplier process ( Ch. 18 ) and the accelerator principle ( Ch. 19 ) .
19 All of our businesses have maintained or improved their market shares as managers we concentrate on the full year rather on either half and because of our seasonal bias er , those of you who 've been , er , to our interim presentations before er , will remember that without fail I tell you our results at the half-way stage are not a clear guide to the outcome of the year as a whole .
20 These are more complicated , and to illustrate the analysis we concentrate on the simplified case where ( i.e. , bequests are not influenced by future earning capacity ) and ( i.e. , N represents ‘ raw ’ earning capacity , and there is no influence via parental wealth ) .
21 It 's what we mean by the official reason , it it 's the P R person .
22 Do you know what th we mean by the two-second rule ?
23 Yet there is great difficulty in defining what we mean by the public benefit .
24 If we fail to see any need to offer sound moral justifications for treating sentient creatures as mere ‘ commodities ’ , ‘ preparations ’ , ‘ models ’ , or research ‘ tools ’ , then we surely deny that very rationality which we cite as the single quality which elevates humans so far above the other animals .
25 Finlay explains : ‘ Since we round to the nearest metre it could be 914.5 metres , say , which would make it a Munro .
26 We sit on the dead leaves at the foot of the vent , backs against the stone .
27 We sit underneath the floral light display and look at the menu .
28 We sit in the deep armchairs , both brooding on private thoughts .
29 We sit in the big room and watch some unedited footage from the ‘ Runaway ’ video .
30 This way , if base rate goes down we gain on the floating rate — if base rate goes up , we 're protected on the fixed half . ’
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