Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] [verb] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 2 | And we want to know let's say we 're interested in a a time of about ten hours or something . |
| 3 | Hateley pointed out : ‘ I always felt the league format might help us . |
| 4 | If we listen acutely enough , the person who is dying will tell us when the time is right . |
| 5 | This book is based on that conviction ; it has the crucial implication that understanding how one kind of animal develops will help us understand the development of all the others . |
| 6 | Only a richer conception of what they are trying to provide will enable us to make a sensitive assessment of their achievements and potential . |
| 7 | Knowing how these processes are organized will help us develop better computer systems for object naming , in addition to helping us understand how object naming develops in children , and how it can break down after brain damage . |
| 8 | They are talking a language we probably do not understand , and which they hope will impress us and befuddle us and increase their status . |
| 9 | The Corporal or Sergeant leading would stop us , we would have to start again and try to sing the whole song faultlessly . |
| 10 | I am confident that what has been agreed will enable us to achieve that without spending any cash over and above that already in our normal annual budget over the next two years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ A draw would keep us in with an outside chance of going to the States . |
| 12 | Understanding what questions are designed to do will help us answer them . |
| 13 | Seeing used to tell us a lot about this , did n't he , at class when it |
| 14 | That 's what we were saying used to say we do . |
| 15 | Now cousin , oh er ah , I 'm sorry , erm , President , because you know you get all sorts of distortions on this do n't you can I say , President , er , cos call him brother at times colleagues , on behalf of congress , can I thank you President , very very much for the very positive and very strong challenges that you 've put before us , and the theme that I believe will carry us through the rest of the week . |
| 16 | The form that the argument in our research will take will show us how to use our hypotheses . |
| 17 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 18 | The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology . |
| 19 | It is not an entity or an origin , although the language we use may predispose us to thinking of it in those terms . |
| 20 | What you saw may help us to prove whether he is the thief or not . ’ |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the de-Marxisation of their project by him and the ‘ death of the social ’ which he has announced should alert us to the doubts raised by Raymond Williams on the issue of certain types of Utopianism . |
| 22 | Any inbuilt coding — in the form of genes — that could affect us after our child-bearing period is irrelevant to the survival of the species : the genes involved might code us for death but , in terms of the species , this does not matter because we have already served our purpose by reproducing . |
| 23 | I found myself wondering anxiously whether anyone we knew could overhear us . |
| 24 | This paper is intended to examine how changing the way branches are run could enable us to get more members involved and expand the work done . |
| 25 | Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two . |
| 26 | The information we gather will give us months of future material to work from — there will be opportunities both indoors and out to expand our notes into larger works if we wish . |
| 27 | In some cases , vibrational progressions may be observed , and careful analysis of the nature of the vibrations involved can give us an idea of both the symmetry and any changes in structure associated with the transition , just as it can for a band in a valence photoelectron spectrum ( Section 6.6.2 ) . |
| 28 | This may point to a powerful repressed feeling which we fear will overwhelm us . |
| 29 | A brief tour of inspection of London 's streets at the time that the Hooligans were publicly christened will help us to see something of what these quiet streets were made of . |
| 30 | So we know that erm we 're standing let's say we 're standing a hundred and twenty metres |