Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a community do we work for justice for oppressed people or do we prefer to think of them as lazy and stupid ? |
| 2 | For him there is one origin to phenomena we tend to think of as distinct : private property , the family , the State . |
| 3 | On this side of the Channel we tend to think of Bonington very differently . |
| 4 | We tend to think of the reptiles as somehow past their ‘ prime ’ , but it would be more accurate to say that they had been displaced from the top jobs in nature , while more than holding their own in the shop floor . |
| 5 | Although we tend to think of selection interviewing as a conversation between two people there are several variations on this theme , all of which have their advantages and disadvantages . |
| 6 | We tend to think of cruelty as incorporating violence , but equally cruel is the father who constantly belittles his son or daughter in front of others . |
| 7 | We tend to think of light as being in some way ‘ different ’ from the other forms of radiation , but this is misleading . |
| 8 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |
| 9 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 10 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 11 | We tend to think of animal vision only in terms of that part of the spectrum of light which we can see ; and yet we know that the spectrum extends far beyond this . |
| 12 | We tend to think of joint finance , in the English context , as involving the district health authority , but there is a range of agencies — from the highest level in the NHS down to the family practitioner committees — who must have a part to play in planning community services and of course in supporting community services . |
| 13 | Even in my time we tend to think of aliens … you know , people from Outer Space ? as being so much in advance of our own civilization . |
| 14 | Within the public sector we tend to think of politicians as providing the vision for the organisation , expressed in terms , depending upon the ideology of the party in power , which include : |
| 15 | When we think of objectives we tend to think of objectives for growth and change . |
| 16 | Although we tend to think of industrial effluent , sewage is a more important source of pollution . |
| 17 | So really , if we got shot of all that cos really , you want to make another hatch |
| 18 | So is it about time we got rid of this confusing tradition ? |
| 19 | WE can get rid of Trident missiles just as we got rid of cruise missiles . |
| 20 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 21 | living with that and then when we got rid of that purple carpet |
| 22 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 23 | ‘ We got rid of everything we did n't need . |
| 24 | It was well after nine by the time we got rid of them . ’ |
| 25 | It is high time that we got rid of the Government who have characterised the 1980s with cardboard city and got a Government for the 1990s who will start using bricks and mortar again . |
| 26 | I think if we got rid of all those open topped tour buses in York , traffic would be a lot easier . |
| 27 | Happily we got rid of the fighter and the navigator set course once more by his skilful application of the astro compass readings and crossed the Channel . |
| 28 | at the time and we took that with us , which was an old fashioned , a really old Victorian suite which we got rid of when we moved into this house . |
| 29 | No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it . |
| 30 | About time we got rid of some of this ! |