Example sentences of "what we [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McMillan said : ‘ They have been guilty of what we would not expect from professional people in the late twentieth century . |
| 2 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 3 | This is intuitively what we would expect and we would say that it was due to a lack of sleep . |
| 4 | ‘ What we would like to do , ’ says Dennis Tunnicliffe , ‘ is slow down the rate of growth because my system is full . |
| 5 | As a matter of practice , and because we 've all got to live , we all draw about two-thirds of what we would have got last year as we go along , then share out the rest at the end of the year . ’ |
| 6 | Of course , an absurd price is exactly what we would have expected Ephron to suggest in the circumstances . |
| 7 | Certainly when Jacob appears to have his assailant in his power , it is precisely what we would expect . |
| 8 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 9 | That is only what we would have expected them to do . |
| 10 | You ask what we would do for young people . |
| 11 | And so we were involved a great deal in what we would call ‘ protesting ’ but as far as political activity , that was never my thing . |
| 12 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |
| 13 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 14 | In these early days Highlander worked with people in what we would now term industrial relations and workers ' education . |
| 15 | There was no doubt in anyone 's mind what we would do . |
| 16 | Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today . |
| 17 | There is no room here for a highly technical debate about language , but what is clear is that Christianity can not possibly associate any view of God with what we would normally conceive a person to be . |
| 18 | ‘ What we would suggest is this , Mike , ’ Sir Daniel went on . |
| 19 | Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses . |
| 20 | We sat on the bank , dejected , wondering what we would have to do to find ‘ proper ’ trout fishing , such as we had been brought up with in our native land . |
| 21 | These aids are used as signals to the horse to tell him what we would like him to do . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On Friday and Saturday tea-times , we would sometimes fantasize about which pub we ought to go to and what we would eat afterwards . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We were able to get on with our routine work without too much drama unfolding around us , and we started to dream of what we would do when the war was over . |
| 26 | The theory has to cope with situations in which the dynamical properties of particles , such as electrons , protons and neutrons , and even atoms , are very different from what we would expect of a scaled-down billiard ball following its usual ‘ classical ’ behaviour . |
| 27 | Early workers concentrated on destroying the immature aquatic stages in their breeding places using what we would now call environmental management . |
| 28 | Sensitivity to the forces lying beneath the surface , seeing subtle connections between parts of the landscape that seem separate to us , would lead them inevitably to what we would call a form of astrology . |
| 29 | County cricket in its early days appealed to both middle and working classes , many of whom enjoyed what we would now call ‘ flexi-time ’ . |
| 30 | Only later will they come to learn the shades of grey in which we are both what we would like and what we would prefer not to be . |