Example sentences of "[adj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) . |
| 2 | Soon after this we learn that Doyle thinks he has sold his rights by serving the system as a teacher for ‘ a large wheen of pennies ’ : ‘ He was an article that was corrupt … corruptio optimi pessima … ’ . |
| 3 | The popular slogan ‘ This we will maintain ’ , that is the union with Britain , can be equally applied to the religious and moral values the loyalists pride so much and which they see as embodied in the protestant — loyalist statelet , with its appropriate state apparatus of coercion and alternative paramilitary units . |
| 4 | ‘ Add this : ‘ and this we shall do of our own free will and accord ’ . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Incidentally , according to this we 're both down for beds tonight . |
| 6 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 7 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 8 | But she went on : ‘ This we do know — and dare not forget . |
| 9 | While we do this we must beware of those who are so hungry for authority in our societies that they want to press the authority of the Bible over men and the Church in such a way as to lead to extravagance or to sectarianism . |
| 10 | Without this we are left with little more than the old rather ‘ Whiggish ’ account of how reasonable men gradually came to perceive women 's ills . |
| 11 | For this we have to thank Professor Hinsley , a highly respected and trustworthy historian , who would not allow deceptions to appear under his name . |
| 12 | This we did and very soon improved the Mothercare product range with sparkling results . |
| 13 | This we have seen do in Formen . |
| 14 | In challenging this we believe in the unity of the working class . |
| 15 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 16 | This we did — by which time we had both calmed down a little . |
| 17 | Following this we approved most of the detailed proposals . |
| 18 | This we did and , of course , the figures showed losers as well as gainers . |
| 19 | In a place like this we could scream for hours and no one would hear us . ’ |
| 20 | Battle is joined again , and surely after this we know what the result will be . |
| 21 | ‘ According to this we 've to keep an eye out for anything — or anybody — suspicious . |
| 22 | This we may express , indeed , in a few words , but it should influence us throughout all our treatment of horses ; for a horse will more readily take the bit , if , when he has taken it , something pleasant results to himself ; and he will leap across ditches , and jump over obstacles , and comply with our wishes in all other respects , if he looks forward , when he has done what is required of him , to some indulgence . |
| 23 | This we call self-image . |
| 24 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 25 | ‘ All men wish all women to be gentle , ’ Mrs Browning commented , ‘ just as all women wish men to be strong and to alter this we must first start with our sons and what they are brought up to . |
| 26 | ‘ Now Wilson , ’ Mr Browning began , looking grave and weary , ‘ what is this we hear of you ill-treating your guest , our friend ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In all this we see the very bedrock of our constitution beginning to quake … |
| 28 | Through this we aim to develop and heighten the drama experience of youngsters within the education service , to link the curriculum work with performance in a professional theatre and the experience which this brings to youngsters , and for groups to share their work with others , often from different backgrounds and cultures . |
| 29 | In this we must have succeeded , for I marvelled at our billetors ' ready assumption of it . |
| 30 | This interior analogue of the exterior world is actively ‘ seen ’ ; and this we may presume is no accidental metaphor , for the dominance of visual perception in human life extends into the inner world of experiencing as a dominant mode providing a basic ‘ map ’ of an ongoing continuum . |