Example sentences of "what we [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we would advocate , as indeed Mr Smith did earlier , is that there should be a a global figure for Greater York , and a reduction , in an appropriate reduction in the requirement for each district , and I believe that anticipating you might ask me what that is what that reduction should be , erm I I can say it must be related to the ca capacity , of that district within Greater York . |
| 2 | Is what he feels the same as what we would feel were we holding him ? |
| 3 | We 're actually at the moment the the the brief , the focus is to actually on what we , look at what we would send out as a report to parents . |
| 4 | Er I mean I , I mean have we really thought this through because er if we 're an anticipating having hundred , hundred and fifty people here which I suppose is of course about what we would hope for , the response that NUPE er as you know they would need to actually achieve the yes vote , I mean we need this sort of room full er would n't it not be more sensible to split up between co or not , would it not be normal for the tutor to expect the group to split up to address specific areas like , I do n't know , Labour Party membership , erm finance , I do n't know , whatever |
| 5 | But that is in part contingent on the peculiarities of political power in the US , which gives what we would regard as disproportionate political power to constitutional courts , made up of persons chosen by the president . |
| 6 | Well each has a particular history erm each has a particular culture and pattern of doing things , structure of government as I 've mentioned but also of course we have common interests so in foreign policy we sometimes draw differences between what we would regard as the direct interests of each state and what we can call common interests of mankind . |
| 7 | But I , I , I think there is a conflict between what we would regard as being a , an acceptable subsistence level and what it would appear that the peasants could possibly have been achieving . |
| 8 | ‘ What we would suggest is this , Mike , ’ Sir Daniel went on . |
| 9 | In Shakespeare 's time , Julius Caesar and other plays with a historical background were performed in what was then modern dress ( what we would recognize as Elizabethan costume ) . |
| 10 | On Friday and Saturday tea-times , we would sometimes fantasize about which pub we ought to go to and what we would eat afterwards . |
| 11 | This is intuitively what we would expect and we would say that it was due to a lack of sleep . |
| 12 | Certainly when Jacob appears to have his assailant in his power , it is precisely what we would expect . |
| 13 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 14 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |
| 15 | The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour . |
| 16 | What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation . |
| 17 | How far down the social scale the possession of seals extended is not known , but the carrying of personal identification tags is exactly what we would expect of such a minutely organized society . |
| 18 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 19 | What we would expect to find therefore is : |
| 20 | In the Pomme , we talked through what we would talk through . |
| 21 | We believe that what has been described as paradoxical pain is what we would refer to as ‘ opioid poorly responsive ’ pain and that opioid responsiveness is a continuum that may be influenced by any of a large number of factors related to the patient and the drug as well as the pain . |
| 22 | Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today . |
| 23 | I think yes er we have to accept that er the use classes order would allow that erm , but what we would anticipate is that in terms of I five , the local planning authority would be would allocate specific sites related to I five . |
| 24 | Only later will they come to learn the shades of grey in which we are both what we would like and what we would prefer not to be . |
| 25 | In some counts , a signal of distress but is attempting to solicit something but is usually what we would classify in our abstract concept of parental investment . |
| 26 | What we would demand given half a chance : Electro-shock treatment for anyone with home-made tattoos . |
| 27 | Alright , so a lot of that world trade will be intra-EC , not what we would think of as , as world trade , because they 're both very inefficient producers , they 're just selling er , inefficient products to one another . |
| 28 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 29 | You ask what we would do for young people . |
| 30 | There was no doubt in anyone 's mind what we would do . |