Example sentences of "we would now [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This problem surfaces even in his introduction in which he states that his concern is to show how artists ‘ consciously aspired towards goals that we would now regard as scientific in a broad sense ’ ( p. 1 ) . |
| 2 | A rather chilling symbol of what we would now regard as the male chauvinism of the times is furnished by the wording and the sentiments contained in an Act of Parliament passed in the year Charles and Elizabeth were married , 1770 : |
| 3 | In general , many of these inquiries were motivated by the need for what we would now regard as manpower planning , especially to do with the defence of the realms concerned . |
| 4 | We would now answer question 1 , ‘ To develop the character of Christ ’ , and 2 , ‘ In the Great Commission ’ ( making disciples , helping others to maturity in Christ ) . |
| 5 | Ones with numerous branches seemed to dominate the earlier rocks , ones with fewer branches were later , while in rocks we would now recognize as Silurian and early Devonian , forms with but a single branch ( or stipe ) were abundant . |
| 6 | In the case of what we would now distinguish as ‘ arts ’ , an early example is the fourteenth-century Florentine guild , actually that of the surgeon apothecaries but including painters from an overlap of working materials . |
| 7 | In contemporary terms , therefore , his diagnoses were too inexact to stand as definitive evidence for ( or against ) a connection between creativity and madness , as we would now construe it . |
| 8 | In these early days Highlander worked with people in what we would now term industrial relations and workers ' education . |
| 9 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |
| 10 | If this advice had been taken , we would now have a Labour government with Liberal Democrat support , and the two parties would jointly be working on reforms to the voting system to ensure that it more accurately represents the will of the people . |
| 11 | If Labour had supported our idea in it 's early stage , we would now have spent over seventy percent of the funds available in the five year cycle . |
| 12 | A Meat and Livestock Commission spokesman summed up this bulldog spirit : ‘ If Gallup got it right , we would now have a Labour government . ’ |
| 13 | A decade ago it would have been inconceivable that we would now know enough about the molecules of cancer to consider genetic intervention . |
| 14 | I think what we would now say is that of course women are extremely competent programme-makers , but there is n't a lot of evidence that they want to cover different topics . |
| 15 | From this perspective , Durkheim enabled us to see how different social structures ( rather than systems of production ) ‘ generate ’ , as we would now say , distinctive patterns of belief . |
| 16 | Herder ( 1784–91 ) first used the significant plural , ‘ cultures ’ , in deliberate distinction from any singular or , as we would now say , unilinear sense of ‘ civilization ’ . |
| 17 | We would now like to extend its scope and analysis and we invite any general manager , not already participating , to do so . |
| 18 | We have already indicated that we would now like to have a session with teachers and principal teachers . |
| 19 | ‘ We would now like to appeal to anyone who was in the area of Holborn Hill at its junction with Cottage Lane on Thursday afternoon . |
| 20 | Thus , while at the peak of his long and difficult reign , and while engaged upon an ideal cause that represented all that he stood for in terms of imperial and religious aims , Frederick Barbarossa probably died from what we would now recognise as a massive heart failure . |
| 21 | As early as the 1740s , scholars had deployed what we would now recognise as a valid historical methodology for questioning the veracity of scriptural accounts . |
| 22 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 23 | The rules were based on the principle of substitution using a common ‘ radical ’ ( we would now call it a parent ) to denote members of the same family . |
| 24 | But , since he was Professor ( or , as we would now call him , Principal ) at the Veterinary College for over 45 years , and Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon for nearly 43 years , and since in these positions he inevitably greatly influenced the development of our College and profession , an attempt at a balanced re-appraisal seems worthwhile . |
| 25 | Early workers concentrated on destroying the immature aquatic stages in their breeding places using what we would now call environmental management . |
| 26 | County cricket in its early days appealed to both middle and working classes , many of whom enjoyed what we would now call ‘ flexi-time ’ . |
| 27 | When he noticed that linguistic usage could reflect social usage and that classificatory kinship systems encouraged group solidarity , Morgan made what we would now call a ‘ functional ’ interpretation of social phenomena . |
| 28 | Even so , Baden-Powell 's intriguing romanticisation of what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ was not an uncommon response in these years . |
| 29 | But 12-year-old girls would certainly not have possessed the physical strength for such a form of attack , and although the rubric of ‘ garotting ’ was used universally to encompass these crimes , most of the cases reported in the newspapers seemed to describe fairly straightforward street robberies — sometimes using a variety of coshes , knuckle-dusters , ‘ Indian claw ’ devices and other forms of life-preserver — or what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ . |
| 30 | In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) . |