Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Additional criticisms , some from outside the radical perspective , have been made , but we deal with these in the next chapter where we put forward an alternative conceptual framework within which to consider the issues . |
2 | What I would like to think is is that we put together an annual report for our own purposes , and that goes out to a very limited distribution , as Trevor was suggesting . |
3 | Some feel that politics is the best route , others that politics is completely irrelevant and that we need instead a spiritual revolution . |
4 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
5 | There is certainly a difficulty in understanding how Israel can be expected to have known anything from primeval times , when it did not exist , but there is no doubt that we have here a parallelism of increasing precision . |
6 | Curiously , while ( 64 ) can only be used as a greeting ( at least in British English ) , ( 65 ) can only be used as a parting : ( 65 ) Good night so that we have here an interaction of time and discourse deixis . |
7 | It is possible that we have here an attempt to combine hunting and aquatic scenes ( see note 3 ) , but such a suggestion must be tentative . |
8 | So you can see that we have quite a mixture of people in terms of our backgrounds professionally . |
9 | The fossil history.of earth suggests that we have about a billion years — one ‘ aeon ’ , to use a convenient modern definition — to play with , for this is roughly the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago and the era of the first fossil organisms . |
10 | The tip radius , from being very small , is now very large , practically infinite in fact It is true that we have now a new crack , at right angles to the original one , but then the tendency to propagate a crack which is parallel to the applied stress is usually nil . |
11 | What do we do , you must take away everything that 's in the brackets , so we take away a twenty , so that 's the same as a minus twenty and then we 'll take away a minus one , signs are the same so it 's add one . |
12 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
13 | yeah , because we 've opened stores in France and we 've also a new store in the U K there 's pluses and minuses there 's pluses in France pluses in the U K with one new store erm and minuses with the sub-lets |
14 | And we 've quite a few bits and bobs of furnishing that your mother might find useful . |
15 | But the animal also lives in an external environment and we have here a fundamental new set of ethical values being developed by the ecologists and ‘ green ’ people . |
16 | And we have therefore a very substantial and helpful research as well . |
17 | It 's sometimes limited if the winds are strong and we have only a few experienced sailors on holiday . |
18 | erm And we 've already lost planes in the erm war so far , and we have only a limited number there , while going back to the last world war |
19 | He cites some of the outstanding performances in C&P — ‘ and we have quite a number to our credit . |
20 | No , we 'll wait for the opportunity outside , if we wait here a month and more . |
21 | Okay and if we put perhaps a water tank here and the water 's trying to get out and we 've got these two big pipes , go through one big pipe and one little pipe . |
22 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
23 | To tell the truth , there ai n't much to do in the garden , but we go quite a lot anyhow . |
24 | One official said ‘ Twenty or so forgeries have turned up so far , but we believe quite a number more are in the system . ’ |
25 | But we have both a general reason for setting a classical agenda , and two particular ones . |
26 | Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that . |
27 | But erm , you know , it 's , it 's like erm , if you talk about erm , funding per head or funding for the , for the overall spaces , you know , if it 's Mr , he always wants to be funded by the , the mile of roadblock for the population , because we have rather a lot of one to the other , and I think there may be a similar situation with the police . |
28 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
29 | We give them their induction pack ( see page 41 ) to look at later , but it 's really to get to know the layout , because we have quite a large building . |
30 | We need to go on further still but before we do so a little breather for taking stock would seem appropriate . |