Example sentences of "thing we [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easson noted : ‘ One of the things we need is to be together with these guys for a lengthier period , whether pre-season , or an off-season tour . ’ |
| 2 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 3 | And another thing we know is that when word finally arrives back to Clonahoe or Ballyeen that they can build their road as a relief work , there 'll be no one there fit to supervise it . ’ |
| 4 | The last thing we want is to lose our independence to one of the big five . ’ |
| 5 | The last thing we want is teaching by numbers , reducing learning to a series of mechanistic measured units . |
| 6 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 7 | I feel some drivers have been very , very lucky and the last thing we want is to have complacency creeping in . |
| 8 | The last thing we want is a fight now . " |
| 9 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 10 | When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . |
| 11 | We are well aware of this problem and the last thing we want is ex-service men having to live in temporary accommodation . |
| 12 | The last thing we want is approved contractors having to wait too long for their money . |
| 13 | Er the reason want referring because has n't commenced it 's considered er view and the last thing we want is to be in business actually doing is enclosing on St Albans and anything that St Albans does n't actually want . |
| 14 | The last thing we want is for someone to pop up unmarked and score a goal . |
| 15 | But I think , but I do think it does mean that the first thing we say is that the work is more important than some of , maybe some of the , the nicer to have three year projects at the moment . |
| 16 | Well first thing we do is we 'll if I 've got two two sergeants at the flats , I tell the occupant to go back to the flat , and wait for the two s two sergeants turning up . |
| 17 | So the first thing we do is to change hands , that 's good , push , wait change sides , straighten up the tiller , look where you 're going that 's fine . |
| 18 | So the first thing we do is to change hands , then push , wait until the boom comes across and change sides and straighten up . |
| 19 | It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size . |
| 20 | The last thing we need is to have the police involved . ’ |
| 21 | The last thing we need is having to spend more time in the God-forsaken place than we have to . |
| 22 | The first thing we need is someone to save us from our sins ! |
| 23 | ‘ First thing we buy is an 'ouse for you , girl , near your Mary 's , ’ Gerry 'd say , ‘ with a garden and a bathroom . ’ |
| 24 | We have n't The only thing we have is an . |