Example sentences of "all we [vb base] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are trying to suggest that erm , somehow this year we 're cutting the police budget , he seems to have forgotten that last year when he was chairman of the police authority , a three hundred thousand pound cut , a genuine cut was made in the police authority budget , budgets were cut to make up to make up to that three hundred thousand , at the discretion of the Chief Constable , and to the credit of Mrs , and her other colleagues in the police committee , virtually no attempt was made to make political capital at that time , instead of which now , when all we 've seen is a request for the Chief Constable to defer proposed new spending , all of a sudden this is presented as a cut . |
| 2 | All we 've done is to make it look nice inside with our furniture , our pictures and our paintings and so on . ’ |
| 3 | As it stands at the moment all we 've done is thrown numbers at the typing |
| 4 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 5 | they come to us and all we 've done is uplifting and gone bloody subcontracting |
| 6 | All we 've got is Daddy when he was a medical student — and your wedding pictures . ’ |
| 7 | You can learn how to keep the other party happy without giving in … how to make concessions that close the sale … how to use time to your advantage and resist deadline pressures … how to cope with such comments as ‘ All we 've got is £60,000 in the budget ’ or ‘ That 's our price , take it or leave it . ’ |
| 8 | Really all we 've got is what his sister told us when she came over . ’ |
| 9 | All we 've got is memories and love , and that 's all that matters |
| 10 | The problem at the moment is , we 've been on Word Processor up to now , but the designer is designing a programme at the moment , so I do n't have a programme to show you because it 's with the designer , erm all we 've got is the diary , that we 're kind of like again on the word processor , that we 're producing tonight . |
| 11 | And now we 're out here and all we 've found is that nomes are n't important at all … . |
| 12 | But in fact all we need to remember is this : |
| 13 | If children become bilingual by being immersed in French in Canada , then perhaps all we need to do is to immerse Chinese-speaking children in English in Hong Kong to achieve the same effect . |
| 14 | All we need to do is to push microelectrodes into the regions to which the prestriate cortex projects and look for the cells that only respond to particular objects . |
| 15 | If the broad outline of metazoan phylogeny is now becoming clear , then surely all we need to do is commiserate with the authors of innumerable failed schemes constructed over the past century and promptly move on to more interesting problems . |
| 16 | The problem is linear , superposition is permissible , so all we need to do is to add vectorially E1 , and E2 and the field at point P is determined . |
| 17 | Now we 've found D Y by D X all we need to do is put back Q to what it was . |
| 18 | All we need to do is to widen — or invert — our normal frames of reference . ’ |
| 19 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 20 | It 's just a matter of er , i I mean all we need to do is , is , is sort out a sort of formal agreement with Elliel that , you know , and how , how the management company or the limited company 's going to sort of manage the place and th then we 'll er got to , you know , we 've got two people who 've got a , a very successful business they 're actually drinks ' suppliers , Morecambe Bay Wines and Spirits er , who are gon na come in and have er they 'll sign the cheque for the rent there and then , I mean it 's er it 's a matter of just th you know , all it is is , is they 're saying well , you know what actually is the formal arrangement ? |
| 21 | if he , that in the sense that if he came back and said the revolution 's already happening , all we need to do is to get |
| 22 | Erm all we need to say is the sun is n't still , what can we say . |
| 23 | That 's all we need to know is it ? |
| 24 | ‘ All we want to do is get it out of the lorry . |
| 25 | All we want to do is go along and put forward our policies to discuss them in a well-mannered reasoned way . |
| 26 | All we want to know is what happened to the cargo . ’ |
| 27 | In general it must be , because all we have to lose is a little time . |
| 28 | Chairman , if they ask for er er additional rent , all we have to say is no , you maintain it as a , as a recreation ground , erm you know and then it passes back to them . |
| 29 | Now all we have to decide is where to look next for him . ’ |
| 30 | Consider in this light the following modification to one of the other examples given above ; all we have done is to add a group of things ( " kinds of images " ) of which the relevant phrase can be treated as a part : There are various kinds of images which can be explored . |