Example sentences of "[pron] we [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigation of the language of popfiction is here conducted , in the author 's own words , at three levels : " a level of verbal choice and organisation , a level of narrative structure , and a level at which stylistic options and devices are related to the ideologies of manliness and womanliness which we either bring to our reading or derive from it " ( p. xi ) . |
| 2 | The suggested the distinctive Volvo 460 , which we duly put to the test . |
| 3 | We can not doubt the intention of such a one to mock our normal human relationships and diminish the value which we properly accord to each other . |
| 4 | ‘ Life is full of suffering ’ , we might tell ourselves — and we see confirmation of our belief in every conversation with our problem-ridden friends , with every disaster-obsessed news report ( which we compulsively listen to ) , and with every fresh trauma and misfortune that we attract into our own lives . |
| 5 | But sex , homicide , and religious cult are categories which we somehow expect to be hedged about by taboo , everywhere , always . |
| 6 | Which we still read to this day . |
| 7 | First , we tried a direct approach and ground up polarizing region cells and put the mixture into agar blocks which we then grafted to the anterior margin . |
| 8 | ( These diets could be said to have been half-right , in that they did cut out refined carbohydrates , but unfortunately without adding fibre-rich carbohydrate foods which we now know to be of such help to slimmers . ) |
| 9 | However , in the passage in which he specifically considers whether a woman can be ordained , his answering in the negative , it must be pointed out , is dependent on biological presuppositions which we now know to be false . |
| 10 | Proof Half of the theorem has been proved already ; Lemma 1.3.9 and Remark ( ii ) following it show that every integer greater than 1 ( respectively , less than -1 ) can be expressed as a product of ( respectively , -1 times a product of ) finitely many positive irreducibles ( which we now know to be primes ) . |
| 11 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 12 | If we had such a network , we would be able to withdraw the support which we currently give to private practitioners , but the Minister knows that we can not do so at this stage because there is no body of effective legal advice and opinion to benefit people . |
| 13 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 14 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 15 | Work would already have started on improving what we already believe to be one of the country 's most modern and safe grounds . |
| 16 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |
| 17 | It is hoped that the last has been heard of the practice ( see contributory cause ( a ) ) and that for the future it will be abandoned for what we now know to be more prudent and wiser measures . |
| 18 | What we usually take to be specifically feminist concerns ( e.g. ‘ political ’ ones — whatever that means ) seem often obscured in this body of writing by the theoretical exigencies of semiotics , psychoanalysis , discourse analysis or Althusserian Marxism . |
| 19 | Remember what we once meant to one another . ’ |