Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb mod] [verb] " 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 | As the numbers of socially deprived people , immigrants , and people with AIDS increase , and tuberculosis notifications no longer decline , who can dismiss the risks we may face in Britain in future ? |
| 3 | When we go down to the shops we may see an acquaintance on the other side of the road . |
| 4 | Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . |
| 5 | 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 . ) . |
| 6 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 7 | As an association we would prefer that no new stadium should be erected but that Hearts should remain at Tynecastle . |
| 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 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But neither of these was close to the grief we would have experienced in the real presence of death . |
| 13 | Because in fact if we 're holding far too much stock we ought to do something about reducing it because it 's all |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If we consider the mathematics of combinations we must come to the conclusion that the pattern making activity of the mind is far better designed for conceptual thinking than any computer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On the gain side we might find that a choice which seems very attractive does actually miss out on an important priority . |
| 20 | On the supply side we can identify long- and short-term influences . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On the other side we must assert freedom of enquiry . |
| 23 | you go over the clubs on the other side we used to go up |
| 24 | Since most of the parameters here will normally be constant during a given experiment we can speak of the blackout level for a given light intensity . |
| 25 | For our third experiment we must move into the quantum world . |
| 26 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 27 | There are other principles of reasoning we could mention . |
| 28 | By the same reasoning we must conclude that K could plausibly have arisen , directly by a single change , from something slightly different again , which we may call K " . |
| 29 | It was worked out by the Austrian ethologist Karl von Frisch in the middle of this century , by methods we shall discuss in the next section . |
| 30 | There are a large number of other methods we could examine . |