Example sentences of "[vb -s] we the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spares us the details , saying only that she was tall , well-built . |
| 2 | It allows us the conclusion that has just been contemplated : that the difference between causal items and their effects has its basis not only in the consideration that causal circumstances fix uniquely the occurrence of their effects , but also in the consideration that causal circumstances precede their effects . |
| 3 | Villages Business manager , Alan Moult , said : ‘ Funding of the 47/3e exploration well allows us the potential to become an active player in the western Villages area , where a number of significant discoveries have already been made . ’ |
| 4 | Sexuality affords us the opportunity of transgressing the barrier separating life from death . |
| 5 | And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality . |
| 6 | The Bible shows us the will of God , which we can accept with great delight . |
| 7 | King David shows us the way when he says , ‘ It is good to give thanks to the Lord … and make thy praise our pride . ’ |
| 8 | Pascal 's approach shows us the way : ‘ The hypothesis that the apostles were knaves is quite absurd . |
| 9 | A still closer view shows us the detail of the cascade , and the passing traffic can be seen as a shivery reflection in the water of the trough . |
| 10 | Each one shows us the right way to go and we must learn to use it aright . |
| 11 | Truth is covered up , buried , and he comes and unburies the truth or rather shows us how we can unbury that truth within ourselves , shows us the tools we must use . |
| 12 | The energiser that interpenetrates the physical world and shows us the higher aspects of reality … ’ |
| 13 | He shows us the modifications which objects thought to be inanimate impose on each other … |
| 14 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 15 | Figure 6.6b shows us the possible routes for trajectories to pass through the four shaded areas . |
| 16 | It shows us the power of cumulative selection to generate an almost endless variety of quasi-biological form , but it uses artificial selection , not natural selection . |
| 17 | Gloriana is a pageant opera , but it shows us the heartbreak behind the painted progress . |
| 18 | And of course , as I say , it costs us the earth . |
| 19 | there 's no problem there , erm , but because we do n't actually have a radio that gets us the World Service , the people did n't know what was going on , the only thing that we knew was that the air , because Riyadh is a military city |
| 20 | He flings us the fare , with a slender tip , and brandishes an overnight bag . |
| 21 | our next challenge takes us the length of Britain … two RAF sergeants from Hereford are on their way from John 0 Groats to Lands End … what 's new … they 're running … cycling … and swimming all the way |
| 22 | We do n't know which is causing the most pain or even which event grieves us the most . |
| 23 | This is not to say that the one is better than the other , music and poetry are for ever different and it is the difference that accords us the added joy . |
| 24 | Golf Illustrated 's lengthy accounts states ‘ difficulty after difficulty had to be surmounted , not with ease ’ and tells us the course had previously been partly arable , partly waste and that one professional condemned the prospects of the course unless £10,000 were spent on it . ’ |
| 25 | Sir , — That heroic huntin' person ‘ name and address supplied ’ tells us the tearing to pieces of foxes by packs of half starved dogs accompanied by hordes of fancy dress killers on horseback is legal , efficient and beneficial to the fox ! |
| 26 | This link is represented graphically by the unemployment-income curve which tells us the unemployment percentage that will be associated with any rate of national income , given real labour costs . |
| 27 | His widow tells us the things we expect to hear ; that he was good , kind , gentle . |
| 28 | Since the hypocrite ( it is usually a he : there are few women hypocrites in Elizabethan drama , which may be a comfort to the feminists ) tells us the truth , we are able to judge the extent of his lies , his success in duping others . |
| 29 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |
| 30 | and tells us the car |