Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [conj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where do you start with love , every body wants to love , every body wants to be loved , every one at some time or another is disappointed by love and while its difficult sometimes talking about it not talking about it can have some really serious consequences , so let's try to get to the heart of it tonight , one hundred women are prepared to share their wisdom if not their secrets , I 'd like to start off by seeing if we can differentiate between loving and being in love . |
| 2 | It is only by experimenting that we can learn new and interesting textures . |
| 3 | Burns and Stalker ( 1961 ) offer us a more sophisticated version of this approach by suggesting that we also need to take into account the context within which different types of organisations operate . |
| 4 | By denying that we could empirically identify the linguistic framework employed by other agents ( or , indeed by ourselves ) , Quine challenged the claim that we can have a substantive prior conception of truth which can be used to formulate questions for transcendental reflection . |
| 5 | However , the right hon. Gentleman completely misrepresented the position of my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunningham ) , who has been quoted , by implying that we , the Opposition , would be happy if timetable motions were introduced without any attempt to secure an agreement on what the timetable should be , and without any reciprocal arrangement that improved the rights of the Opposition . |
| 6 | But if we lost in 1992 — as we certainly lost in 1987 — because prosperous voters feared that we would reduce their disposable income , we will not win back those middle income families by pretending that we have abandoned the very purpose of our creation and our existence . |
| 7 | These rules can also be deduced by imagining that we try to send extra goods ‘ round the cycle ’ by increasing the flow of goods in edges corresponding to forward variables and reducing it in edges corresponding to reverse variables . |
| 8 | I would n't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other . |
| 9 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
| 10 | Now er by doing that we actually use what we call a questionnaire |
| 11 | But he expresses this by saying that we ‘ can proceed no farther by reasoning than to things which must be exposed again to experience or which can be evidenced by means of some appearance ’ ; and this seems to suggest something new . |
| 12 | He concluded the scene by saying that we would soon be stopping at Newmarket , but that British owners should n't get off the train as they would find no races there . |
| 13 | So if I can open the meeting by saying that we obviously welcome questions this evening and points of view and I would like to open the meeting by asking quite clearly about how you er see best plan for the theat theatre in future and how it 's programme of facilities for the future should be programmed and planned . |
| 14 | Let us start by saying that we shall never use ‘ explaining ’ ( or ‘ explanation ’ ) and ‘ understanding ’ interchangeably . |
| 15 | Last time I wrote for Contact I finished by saying that we hoped to go and see Miss Saigon . |
| 16 | Specialist Old Testament study has long answered this question by saying that we have differing traditions of the early history of the people of God : one tradition in which the divine name was known from the earliest times , and another — contradictory — tradition that it was first revealed to Moses . |
| 17 | The formal theory implements this informal approach by saying that we consider the nearest groups of worlds in which the antecedent p is true and ask whether in those worlds q is true also . |
| 18 | There are difficulties in answering a question by saying that we do n't know . |
| 19 | I can help the hon. Gentleman by saying that we believe that we are on schedule for the introduction of the council tax in April 1993 . |
| 20 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 21 | We elected Peter as Chairman and he began by saying that we needed national appeals to raise money in all the richest countries . |
| 22 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 23 | We respond by saying that we will see how much local INTEREST there is , and if it looks an economic viability we 'll come and talk to you . |
| 24 | I 'll , I can endorse that by saying that we should n't , as I noticed a certain offhandedness with him that I did n't like at all . |
| 25 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 26 | There is an oddity in the argument , which starts by insisting that we speak only of probability relative to evidence , and ends by talking of a proposition having a probability of 1 in its own right . |
| 27 | It then supplements the pre-emption thesis by showing that we should be concerned not merely to have the proper attitude to those in authority over us , but also to those in authority over others . |
| 28 | Even without insisting on the strict claim that inference from fact to value is logically inadmissible , a claim which since Hume has been a commonplace , and after G. E. Moore 's analysis of the Naturalistic Fallacy was for some time an orthodoxy , it has been convenient to stay out of range of standard criticisms by showing that we can get along well enough without resorting to this kind of inference . |
| 29 | ‘ We can not bury our heads in the sand and become competitive just by thinking that we are . |
| 30 | We have made our policies absolutely clear , not just by asserting that we have it in mind to take action , but by stating what we have planned and by making announcements for new equipment and new forces . |