Example sentences of "[pron] we [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consciousness does have a unique character about it , a character which we know from direct experience and which we can reasonably attribute by analogy to other human beings and , perhaps , to cats . |
| 2 | Posidonius had to interpret the strong belief in the other world which we know from independent evidence to have existed among the Celts of his time . |
| 3 | They move mainly by climbing , gripping with their flexible toes and progressing with the ease with which we walk on level ground . |
| 4 | The ways in which we communicate in face-to-face interaction can be summarised like this : |
| 5 | It is our need for possession and instant gratification which we pursue with such intensity , whatever the costs . |
| 6 | Einstein posed a searching question for such systems which we put in modern dress : can an astronaut inside the capsule determine his state of motion without looking out of the capsule ? |
| 7 | Following our appointment to [ nature of appointment ] and in confirmation of our recent discussion with … , we set out below the nature of the responsibilities which we undertake in that appointment and our understanding of the further services which you wish us to perform . |
| 8 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 9 | In the first , which we cover in this section , we examine the relationship between spot and forward exchange rates , and in the second we examine the relationship between the rates of return on assets with differing terms . |
| 10 | when Moore says he knows such and such [ for instance that he has two hands : JD ] he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing ; propositions , that is , which have a peculiar logical role in the system of our empirical propositions . |
| 11 | A decent interval elapsed , during which we looked at each other rather anxiously . |
| 12 | No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other . |
| 13 | and of the country at the things which we heard during that trial . |
| 14 | Note that the basic approach , with very young children , is in many ways similar to that which we use with other age groups : I , the teacher , do not know . |
| 15 | The awareness on which valuation depends is that on which we act in ordinary life , seldom treatable by the strict methods of proof of the sciences . |
| 16 | It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom . |
| 17 | Many illuminating results have been obtained from experiments which study single sentences and sententially-structured passages — indeed , the experiments which we report in this chapter have done just this . |
| 18 | Boston therefore suffers many of the ills which we associate with inner-city decline . |
| 19 | Erm and I think that it is a very useful exercise to discover which things you know fall below that break even point and which things are therefore if you like internally subsidized or which we do for one reason or another . |
| 20 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 21 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 22 | With the four prospective purchasers which we have at this stage it will be necessary to go through an elimination process , selecting one to proceed with and perhaps one to keep on hold . |
| 23 | In popular imagery , the reading of a will is the occasion for bitter squabbles to break out over the deceased 's preferred distribution of assets , but the limited amount of research data which we have on this issue suggests that overt conflicts are not very common . |
| 24 | All of which we have in this brochure defined for us . |
| 25 | Unhappiness and feelings of unfulfilment , therefore , must stem from the way in which we move in this world . |
| 26 | But exploitation produces conflict and it is because of the conflict inherent in each stage of development that history is the unfolding of a drama in which we move from one kind of society to another and which ultimately leads to socialism . |
| 27 | Unlike the other activities which we describe in this section , there was no outsider initiative , input or audience in relation to the efforts of this school 's staff . |
| 28 | I do not know whether the pattern which we see in this country — of significant differences between girls and boys appearing only at the higher levels of achievement — would also apply to the SIMS data . |
| 29 | At this point , new but emotionally-related material should appear to capture our interest , and itself give way to what we heard first , which we greet with renewed interest . |
| 30 | Let us consider just two of them : ( 1 ) Is it true that the word ‘ here ’ is an exception to the rule that knowing the meaning of a word means knowing what is meant by it , that is , knowing something which we call by that word ? and ( 2 ) Supposing that the word ‘ here ’ can be used meaningfully without our knowing something which we call ‘ here ’ , are Russell and McTaggart right in their assumption that the word ‘ I ’ is not like ‘ here ’ in this respect ? |