Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds . |
| 2 | To work at that speed we ca n't even drink a cup of tea . |
| 3 | Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . |
| 4 | As instances of mockery we can cite the reaction of the court of Navarre to the Pageant of the Nine Worthies ( Love 's Labour 's Lost , V.ii.484ff. ) , or that of Athens to ‘ Pyramus and Thisbe ’ ( Midsummer Night 's Dream , V.i.106ff . ) . |
| 5 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 6 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 7 | " Before , we were only a minority who complained , but with the association we wo n't stand for it any more . |
| 8 | When we had association we 'd stand around and talk , or sit and watch telly or have a bath and wash our hair . |
| 9 | Thanks very much er , President er , to mark the occasion of the launching of the British er , Boxers ' Association we 'd like to make a little er , presentation to Barry , who 's the President of that Association and erm who you know , of course , is the Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sport and the Professional Boxers ' Association has got the honour of erm , immediately being part of that er , body and has the assistance , of course , of er , the many people involved there . |
| 10 | thinking we 'll soon get them and save you carrying it tomorrow , then . |
| 11 | Theirs is the sort of Muddled thinking we could all use . |
| 12 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , but if you do n't want the horse we ca n't pay you . ’ |
| 14 | We have n't found him yet , but thanks to you and your horse we 'll be going away from Witney richer than when we arrived . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 've finished petting my horse we can be on our way , ’ he rasped abruptly , annoyed at the direction of his thoughts . |
| 16 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 17 | But neither of these was close to the grief we would have experienced in the real presence of death . |
| 18 | Because in fact if we 're holding far too much stock we ought to do something about reducing it because it 's all |
| 19 | Since all mammals evolved from a common ancestral stock we would expect their brains and bodies to have large numbers of common features which could be the basis of a reasonable level of extrapolation ( Sarnat and Netsky 1981 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ County ambulances are on their way , but we 'll do any first aid we can . ’ |
| 21 | Erm I 'd liked to discuss the point about what aid we can give to try and promote the stability and the event of prosperity of the country . |
| 22 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 23 | Thank you Mr Chairman erm from the Conservative side we would erm be happy to accept the two labour er resolutions erm as , as on the paper as erm I , I would ask that er perhaps with a spirit of co-operation and I think we all agree on this subject . |
| 24 | On the gain side we might find that a choice which seems very attractive does actually miss out on an important priority . |
| 25 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 26 | On the supply side we can identify long- and short-term influences . |
| 27 | Therefore on one side we must assert the authority of the Bible over man and the Church , and not the authority of man and the Church over the Bible . |
| 28 | On the other side we must assert freedom of enquiry . |
| 29 | you go over the clubs on the other side we used to go up |
| 30 | This is disappointing for such a theoretically sensitive technique , but we found that tissue itself potently inhibits the polymerase chain reaction if not adequately purified , and despite our spiking experiment we may not have abolished sample inhibition . |