Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | When we go down to the shops we may see an acquaintance on the other side of the road . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are a large number of other methods we could examine . |
| 7 | Before you go out there are some important safety considerations we should talk about and the first one is personal preparation . |
| 8 | And er the question as to what steps we would take , we do n't discuss those , I , but I made quite clear , and I say it again quite simply , the embargo will be enforced , er and there 's no point in people thinking they can burst through it . |
| 9 | ‘ If we retrace our steps we might make it . |
| 10 | This brochure outlines the broad principles governing awards of compensation , relates the basic steps we will take and suggests a few of the things you can do to help us present your case . |
| 11 | Well he 's put it on here give me an answer on what steps we should carry out on hopper nineteen . |
| 12 | CAFOD also exists to raise awareness of the causes of poverty and injustice in the Third World and the steps we can take to bring about change . |
| 13 | If you have any tips you would like to share with our readers we would love to hear from you . |
| 14 | Today in many large organizations we 'll see three generations of desktop delivery mechanism , the old dumb terminal , the thirty se tw thirty two seventy dumb terminal for instance . |
| 15 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 16 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 17 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 18 | ‘ We just could n't afford the rent increase from £21,000 to £48,000 or the sort of insurance premiums we would have to pay to cover repairs and the upkeep of the pub , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 20 | ( But only vegetables — there seemed to be no animals we could catch to provide meat , and we had no luck when we tried to fish . ) |
| 21 | If we continue the trend towards domestication and away from harvesting wild animals we will have a new problem , that of controlling rapid expansion of those wild animals freed from commercial harvesting or hunting . |
| 22 | But even among established units we can distinguish grades of centrality . |
| 23 | However , there is an agonizing choice to make between at least two pairs of spectacles we might wear to take this critical look . |
| 24 | Any intuitions we may have about Anderson 's loquacity and the way in which it is affected by the events of the play are thus lent support by the results of tabulating the distribution of long turns . |
| 25 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 26 | As riders and trainers we must explain to the horse what is acceptable and what is not . |
| 27 | IN other respects we will follow the syntax and conventions introduced in |
| 28 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 29 | And , and if you 're gon na do burgers we 'll do proper burgers , you know not . |
| 30 | Another programme — TEXT ANALYSIS ( TA ) — can reverse your dictionary for you , but unless you are fairly expert in the use of computers we would advise leaving the reversal until someone who is expert can set up TA for you . |