Example sentences of "in [noun pl] we " in BNC.

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1 Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord .
2 And things like writing leaflets in a way you know that comes up in meetings we 'd better write a leaflet and the response usually 's , Oh n gosh we ca n't do things like that you know , we ca n't speak in public , we ca n't write leaflets and in fact we do you know we find ourselves achieving these things and and I mean I think men really their attitude has really changed over the months .
3 In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common …
4 As all of us spend time in groups we should ask what we can do to improve group effectiveness .
5 The English language is particularly rich in words we can use to describe our emotions , which makes it rather difficult to assess how many basic emotions there are .
6 For the electricity which is normally paid in arrears we should take ⅓ of the bill paid 1 February for January and make an estimate for the amount due for November and December .
7 In Waves we 've had them all from ‘ yours thankingly ’ to ‘ up yours . ’
8 Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ?
9 For instance , in five-a-sides we play for Mars Bars .
10 Where quantities are measured in spoonfuls we mean a level spoonful unless otherwise indicated .
11 Again , among undergraduates in universities we find only 9 per cent of the fulltime places in engineering and technology taken by women , yet they fill 69 per cent of those in language , literature and area studies ( as table 4.4 shows ) .
12 Although adenosine receptors couple to several signalling systems in myocytes we now believe that protein kinase C ( PKC ) is the important one for preconditioning .
13 The point that in dreams we see things ‘ as existing at a great distance ’ indicates that this objection can be answered , but he acknowledges that some explanation is needed .
14 In surveys we found that the fear levels of both broilers and hens arriving at commercial slaughterhouses were extremely high .
15 We thought anyone who dresses up in dresses we want to go and see .
16 ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race .
17 The reduction in referrals we observed and the 23% reduction reported in Plymouth Health District followed voluntary adoption of the guidelines by practitioners without any reinforcement of guidelines to ensure compliance .
18 It is God as Son who reveals God to us in terms we can understand — by becoming a human being .
19 It seems likely that in ways we can never measure , the preachings about the superiority of the life of the spirit may have been profoundly discouraging and alienating to mothers of very young children , who knew about the realities of their own lives and realized that these preachings were profoundly insensitive to those realities … .
20 Instead , we urge you to get to know which particular pattern suits your personal needs — to record , analyse and , if necessary , to adapt that pattern in ways we shall suggest — and then to stick to it .
21 Responsible party government and pluralism fitted some of the facts of British politics for some of the time , but they were always overoptimistic and crucially flawed in ways we have pointed to in the body of this chapter .
22 Justice is not always swift , but in ways we often can not see in advance it is generally sure .
23 Consequently , a semantic theory can become plagued by a proliferation of hypothetical senses and internal contradictions in ways we shall spell out below .
24 We realised that there could be some difficulties , and some apparent injustices might show up , but due to great consultative work put in by Councillors , and Mrs , often against great vilification and personal attack , many per problems were sorted out as they arose but we saw that i in April motions in amendments we see that it takes three full paragraphs of the amended motion to see that they deign to welcome initiatives which extend participation in decision making to schools , governors and parents .
25 So , what are the benefits of additives in foods we commonly consume ?
26 I think we will continue to have a degree of volatility in markets we 've not experienced previously and I think the way the market maker has to interpret his role now is such that we will never get the sort of fine tuning that the old jobbing system could provide .
27 Within the overall acceptance of innate sociality in humans we have tried to shift the debate on human aggression or peacefulness away from definitions and absolute categories , to an investigation of alternative moral orders in which the human person is perceived of as radically different from that constructed through the Judaeo-Christian tradition .
28 With duplex Doppler scanning of the common femoral vein in humans we have shown a considerable reduction in peak blood flow velocity and shortening of the flow cycle during the respiratory phase on two occasions , with a return to normal venous blood flow characteristics on removal of the intraperitoneal gas .
29 fire fighters which will give us er more consistency in cuts we have Chairman of their meeting er er a number of months er during the past year when we are by Home seventy five .
30 In non-metals we can achieve an effective toughness either by devising some kind of work of fracture mechanism without making use of dislocations or else by stopping cracks from running by one means or another .
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