Example sentences of "[adj] we [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this we will at least double the size of Citizens , both through organic growth and by expanding into the states adjoining its Rhode Island base . |
| 2 | Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it . |
| 3 | But I hope that as soon as possible we can with the various approvals and that the money will be found because I would suggest , without the speed reducing measures , this scheme will be a complete waste of money . |
| 4 | If our admiration be true , genuine , and progressive we will in the end come to admire the good and cease to admire the bad . |
| 5 | In former ages we us 'd to give , So that our work-folk like farmers did live ; But the times are altered , we will make them know All we can for to bring them under our bow ; We will make them work hard for sixpence a day , Though a shilling they deserve if they had their just pay . |
| 6 | we will do all we can for , well especially at the centre and while , whilst acknowledging the need for it to resource at the schools at this conference the voluntary agencies , parents and even teachers admitted the greater need for specialists at the centre , that is we want more education psychologists , advisors of all sorts and er , therefore supporting options er at ten , one C , small roman one , and small roman three on the agenda , but er that is reluctantly not er not small roman two . |
| 7 | We shall often have to invoke them in the following chapters , though we shall rely all we can on originals . |
| 8 | We keep up standards by running training awards for Upholstery and Soft Furnishing trainees , these trainees are our future craftsmen and women and we are doing all we can to ‘ uphold ’ the same standards we had in the past and maintain them into the future . |
| 9 | Given their importance there are self-interested reasons for finding out all we can about them . |
| 10 | Instead we need to reflect on them , ponder and wonder , find out all we can about them , learn to appreciate some of the time-honoured ways of approaching them such as meditation and prayer , and be prepared to think about these matters in all sorts of different situations and moods . |
| 11 | We must do all we can in the coming few years to block any parliamentary private Bill which could as easily be dealt with through this legislation . |
| 12 | All we 'd of done was taken pigeonholes and go to them and say do n't want |
| 13 | Jean Stubbs does the same for the 60s in Like We Used To Be ( Macmillan , £11.95 ) bringing to life the world of Flower Power and pot , contraception and the Beatles . |
| 14 | Another thing that might be worth doing as well I mean do n't make it too complicated we ought to about which things to put in . |
| 15 | If this new regulation comes through they 'll be part of a new seat but if in fact they do n't have this regulation come into effect they 'll belong to another s and when you 've had in fact in Southend say the lowest recorded percentage voting of any constituency in England at the last Euro elections I think it 's terrible important we should in fact explain to people whether this is likely to happen . |
| 16 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 17 | Well , you see you finish in the morning about half past , half past twelve we used to , cos no sooner you get your dinner and had a drink , you had to be back again two o'clock or half past two to start on 'em again , you see , |
| 18 | But I mean to be fair we used to we , warehouse thousands of tons of potatoes in Leicestershire , you see what I mean ? |
| 19 | we ordered ten so I do n't know whether we 'll get , maybe if we 'd ordered two we might of got them , but er , ordering ten is a lot ai n't it ? |
| 20 | ‘ Then I suggest we do the best we can for the next several hours . |
| 21 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 22 | The odds , as they well knew , were against them finishing even one tour , but war is a horrible business and we all had to do the best we could in discouraging circumstances . |
| 23 | Oh yes , that was what oh , but wi with the weather being nice we ought to be out . |