Example sentences of "it [vb -s] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 2 | My main complaint about this book , however , is that it encourages us to become not so much rock climbers as consumers . |
| 3 | It encourages us to believe we can take a protective attitude , by acting in the clients ' 'best interests ' , in making decisions about what stock to provide . |
| 4 | That 's great , cos it encourages us to make assholes of ourselves . |
| 5 | That 's great , cos it encourages us to make assholes of ourselves . |
| 6 | This unmarked transition from " Chaucer " to another pilgram-narrator where a tale begins is unparalleled in the rest of the Canterbury Tales , and , be it by accident or design , it encourages us to reflect upon how far the Miller 's Tale is also Chaucer 's . |
| 7 | It humbles us , as God intended it to do , to find that there is no tidy doctrine of the Spirit to be found in Acts or , for that matter , in the whole of the New Testament . |
| 8 | We 've got to destroy this stuff before it destroys us ! ’ |
| 9 | The consequence of Urban 's call must have amazed the pope as it astonishes us ; for he unleashed one of the great movements of peoples of the Middle Ages . |
| 10 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 11 | it points us towards the reasons for visiting ancient sites : each has its own unique atmosphere which we can literally take into our very being . |
| 12 | If it goes we 're gon na bring the lads that finish at lines three and four so it 'll be what six six till , whenever you want , ten hours ? |
| 13 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 14 | Moreover , it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy . |
| 15 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 16 | but , but the thing is if , if the traffic 's gon na be heavy , if it thinks we 're gon na get stuck in traffic , if you 've got a G T I you 're that type of driver you 've got that type of power , you can sort of pass and save a bit of time |
| 17 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 18 | Firstly , I believe , it offers us an interesting way of interpreting images of seclusion and withdrawal . |
| 19 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
| 20 | With its creation and destruction of individuals , it offers us a presentiment of the primordial unity that lies behind the world of phenomena . |
| 21 | What 's more , it disempowers us . |
| 22 | We may not obtain it , or we may obtain it and find it renders us unhappy ; we must still believe in it . |
| 23 | It drives us home to the God who longs to turn our disasters into triumph . |
| 24 | It drives us directly from foundationalism ( for it was in foundationalist terms that the argument was formulated ) to the most interesting form of solipsism , the view that you must take yourself to be the only subject of experience — in fact the subject of experience — since you can have no conception of another such . |
| 25 | What we require is a formulation of that universal imperative to take into account in choices which imposes its authority whenever something is recognized to exist , whenever it confronts us as not illusory but real . |
| 26 | It is also shocking because it confronts us with her body , an old woman 's body with cancer , only touched when it is being cut or hit . |
| 27 | At any rate , in this way if in no other , the English ideal of the artist as amateur has a continuing validity — and one that it behoves us , as Poundians , to acknowledge more often than we do . |
| 28 | It behoves us to be sceptical , then , about Victorian genealogical status symbols ; frequently there is an inverse proportion between the degree of pomp and the humble nature of the ancestry . |
| 29 | That is their secret , and will remain so ; it behoves us not to pry , only to speculate in passing . |
| 30 | If we believe the nature of our industry is likely to change , then it behoves us to experiment , and set up different ways of running things to see whether such approaches are more successful than the traditional ways of doing business . |