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We and could
We collected `` lucky stones '' -- all the creamy translucent pebbles, worn smooth and round, that we
could find in the driveway
.
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges
in a poor-white-trash way, but we
could stand on them, when they were latched, rest
our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before
our eyes
.
We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride
in those days
could easily match mine
.
We got Dr. Glenn to him as quickly as we
could, and we wired Tom
of Papa's desperate condition
.

``
We tried to settle this dispute '', he said, `` but
could never come to an agreement
.
We were less than a quarter
of a mile from the road, and we
could trace its shape from the ribbon
of powder smoke and dust that hung
over it
.
We came on as soon as we
could ''
.
We have the technology today with which to build aircraft shelters which
could withstand at least 200 Aj
.
We could put a portion
of our strategic bombers
in such shelters
.
We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger
in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well
in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one
could stray far out
of the group
.

``
We have tried to make both paths attractive, so that good men
could find opportunity and satisfaction
in either
.

Says Clarence Thompson: ``
We dealers must earn
our mark-up by performing a service for the builder cheaper than he
could do it himself ''
.
We may conclude that all six points
of information, ostensibly given by the dream priest,
could have been furnished by Dr. Hilprecht's subconscious reasoning
.
We could see maggots moving
.
We planned ahead only one step, a rendezvous for tomorrow when we
could swap notes
.
We have to tell ourselves that when Parker spoke
in this vein, he believed what he said, because he
could continue, `` But the truth, which cost me bitter tears to say, I must speak, though it cost other tears hotter than fire ''
.

``
We could put up cribs on the second floor sleeping porch and turn the front bedroom into a playroom where it's nice and sunny, but
of course it would entail quite a bit
of running up and down stairs and Chris said you were to be careful about that ''
.

``
We had concluded that no race as ephemeral as yours
could have had time to develop a sense
of justice
.
We could, alternatively, choose an encoding for Turing machines, where an encoding is a function which associates to each Turing Machine M a bitstring < M >.
We entered a small, narrow doorway, and went down two steps, but beyond those one
could see nothing
.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians "
in the special effects department at Universal Studios
in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: '
We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system
of artificial muscles and
find an actor who
could be trained to walk like that
.

'
We may take this literally, understanding that by a purely mechanical process one which
could be carried out by a machine
.
We can distinguish two groups
of computer-generated music: music
in which a computer generated the score, which
could be performed by humans, and music which is both composed and performed by computers
.
We and scarcely
We were among the first members
of the colony to arrive at the station
of an unfinished railroad … There was a good hotel, well and comfortably furnished, one or two stores neatly furnished and already stocked with goods, several other
in process
of erection … The streets,
scarcely to be defined as such, were full
of prairie schooners, containing families waiting until masters
could suit themselves with “ claims ,” the women pursuing their housewifely avocations meanwhile – some having cooking stoves
in their wagons, others using gypsy fires to do their culinary work ; all seeming happy and hopeful
.
We are deprived
of a leader than whom the whole world would
scarcely obtain a greater, whether
in knowledge
of true religion or
in integrity and innocence
of life, or
in thirst for study
of the most holy things, or
in exhausting labour
in advancing piety, or
in authority and fulness
of teaching, or
in anything that is praiseworthy and renowned
.

The depiction
of Dalila, and women, is similar to that
in Milton's divorce tracts and, as John Guillory states and then asks, "
We scarcely need to observe that Samson Agonistes assumes the subjection
of women, a practice to which Milton gives his unequivocal endorsement ; but is there any sense
in which that practice
of subjection is modified by the contemporaneous form
of the sexual divisions
of labor ?".
We share
our griefs, but not infrequently the conversation turns to recollecting
scarcely believable glories — near miracles — and we pledge to look again .”

In his autobiography Lord Harris wrote, " They asked no-one's goodwill
in the matter, and it was felt this was a discourteous way
of bursting
in on
our arrangements ; and the result was they played
scarcely any counties and were not generally recognised ...
We felt we had to make a protest against too frequent visits ".
We believe that this is the firmest method
of fastening which can be adopted, and that so long as the wood is sound, it is
scarcely possible for the head
of the axe to get loose or to come off ; and it has the further advantage
of strengthening the wood instead
of weakening it, and
of distributing the strain produced by step-cutting
over a large bearing
.
We can give here
scarcely more than a list
of the names, with the dates
of the foundation
.

Early
in the nineteenth century, classic papers by Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday and James Prescott Joule enlivened the journal ’ s pages, and
in the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell contributed several long articles, culminating
in a paper containing the deduction that light is an electromagnetic wave or, as he put it himself, ‘
We can
scarcely avoid the inference that light consists
in transverse undulations
of the same medium which is the cause
of electric and magnetic phenomena ’.

“
We can
scarcely step into a shop or factory
of any description without encountering a mass
of belts which seem at first to monopolize every nook
in the building and leave little or no room for anything else ”.
We and find
We need not, to be sure, expect to
find such ideas
in every piece
of literature
.
We find,
in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve
of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most
of the criticisms levelled against higher education
in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve
of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation
.
We find `` reluctant recruits '' whose values are not
in line with their expected occupation's characteristics
.
We should hope that peace corps projects will be truly international and that
our citizens will
find themselves working alongside citizens
of the host country and also volunteers from other lands
.
We find too many sales and marketing executives so burdened with detail that they are short-changing planning
.
We shall
find a polynomial Af such that Af is the identity on Af and is zero on the other Af, and so that Af, etc.
.
We shall
find a formula for the probability
of exactly X successes for given values
of P and N
.
We find it
in Plato's Republic, and
in Utopia More acknowledges his debt to that book
.
We find it
in that `` common way
of life pleasing to Christ and still
in use among the truest societies
of Christians '', that is, the better monasteries which made it easier to convert the Utopians to Christianity
.
We find it
in the later Stoic conception
of man's natural condition which included the community
of all possessions
.

``
We want to
find out who knew about it '', Pratt said
.
We simply
find ourselves
in the position
of having no means for inquiring into the structure and meaning
of this range
of our experience
.
We find, for example, such groupings as the Five Ancient Rulers, the Five Sacred Mountains, the Five Directions ( with Center ), the Five Metals, Five Colors, Five Tastes, Five Odors, Five Musical Notes, Five Bodily Functions, Five Viscera, and many others
.
We find Elizabeth not
in the verbal domain, the world
of words, but the nonverbal domain ( the two, he said, amount to different orders
of abstraction ).
We find Cretan vessels exported to Melos, Egypt and the Greek mainland
.
We was just tryin ' to
find enough tunes to keep ' em dancin ' to not have to repeat so much
.
We just sold
our farms and set out north-westwards to
find a new home
.

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We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity
of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to
find a careful and precise definition
of consciousness
.
We repeat this procedure to
find m < sub > 2 </ sub > > m < sub > 1 </ sub >, etc
.
We differentiate to
find velocity:
We can
find the angle at which a first minimum is obtained
in the diffracted light by the following reasoning
.
0.243 seconds.