Example sentences of "we [vb mod] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appear in the documents section and therefore do not , we may take it , represent the views of the editors . |
| 2 | Lord Tyrrell , the former diplomat , who became BBFC President in 1935 , notoriously declared that ‘ we may take pride in observing that there is not a single film showing in London today which deals with any of the burning questions of the day . ’ |
| 3 | We may take a mild-mannered horse , one that is bottom of the pecking order at home , out to ride in the company of others — perhaps at a show or on a trail ride — and find to our embarrassment that it is threatening to kick every horse in sight . |
| 4 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 5 | At this point we may take f and g as coordinates and consider the equation in the form ( 10.2 ) which may be rewritten as . |
| 6 | We may take , for example , two apparently very different books written by Englishmen serving in India in the 1920s — one by an evident diehard , one by an evident progressive — and see that they meet , in fact , upon this common ground . |
| 7 | We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self-deception , and was trying to have it both ways . |
| 8 | The point is surely that the properties of being good and being yellow are not complex properties as being a horse is , which is ( we may take him to be supposing ) a matter of having a whole lot of simpler properties , such as having a certain sort of head , a certain sort of tail , and so forth . |
| 9 | We may take two approaches to the identification of this group . |
| 10 | But whatever we may take or reject from Freud , what I think we should not lose is the way in which he raises questions and problematises things which are sometimes taken for granted . |
| 11 | We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers . |
| 12 | In a third class of cases we may take the latest condition , the one closest in time to the effect , as the cause . |
| 13 | This has to do both with what are called states of affairs , which we may take ultimately to be a matter of individual properties , and also what are called laws . |
| 14 | The variation of style with tone ( see 8. s ) is supremely exemplified in Dickens ; and we may take , for illustration , four passages from the earlier part of Dombey and Son , in which style variation is intrinsic to the novel 's satiric-epic picture of Victorian urban society , concentrating on the capitalist house of Dombey . |
| 15 | That is , we may take the " message " of an utterance to be what it conveys about " the real world " . |
| 16 | Without loss of generality we may take |
| 17 | By inspection ( or from the implied quadratic ) unc We now evaluate the eigenvectors : unc so that we may take unc I now remains to find the corresponding row vectors and to deflate A for further study ; we leave this to the reader . |
| 18 | As another ( commonly quoted ) example , we may take the Faulhaber ( 1975 ) case involving economies of scope . |
| 19 | We may take a piece of existing discourse , and add more information into it ; then instruct students to remove surplus information in order to pitch the discourse for a specified receiver . |
| 20 | In order to illustrate the links between the programme of the Caroline bureaucrats and that of the nineteenth-century liberals we may take as examples the reform of the administrative structure ( both in Spain and in America ) , agrarian reform , church reform , and educational reform . |
| 21 | In fact we may take it from the wording of Section 2 of the Definition Order that , during the conference questions were asked about the liability of individuals to repatriation , or Section 2 might not have been included at all . |
| 22 | From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency . |
| 23 | We may take Lord Wilberforce 's argument as typical of the Lords ' approach . |
| 24 | ROS : Tell us where " t is , that we may take it thence and bear it to the chapel . |
| 25 | I think we may take it as certain he had business here . |
| 26 | Mr. Shaker : With this we may take amendment No. 17 , in clause 12 , page 6 , line 32 , at end insert , " and shall ensure that employees " pension rights are in no way diminished by the operation of this Act . " |
| 27 | Mr. Speaker : With this , we may take the following amendments : No. 1 , in clause 1 , page 2 , line 20 after " Group " , insert " and representatives of consumer interests " . |
| 28 | We may take as quite different examples of such endeavours the theories of Spencer and Marx . |
| 29 | As an example we may take gaseous SiCl 2 H 2 whose IR spectrum ( Fig. 5.29 ) contains bands with three distinct types of envelope , as expected for a molecule with C 2 ν symmetry . |
| 30 | Can he say what further action we may take to establish democracy firmly there ? |