Example sentences of "we [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that the qualities of an object are only the various ways in which we or other minds are affected by it , and these affections are not the same in different objects , except in the sense in which the word same stands for exact similarity . |
| 2 | The clash between the end-weight and subject-before-predicate principles could have been avoided by switching from passive to active and inserting a subject such as We or This paper : |
| 3 | Heaven help it if we or any other minority among a majority party , of any colour of any persuasion , was allowed to govern as an as an executive . |
| 4 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 5 | Yeah all we and good . |
| 6 | Whilst we and other members of the travel industry are campaigning to have any such charges waived for holidaymakers , it is possible that they will be in force when you travel . |
| 7 | Note , also , that oxygen gas — that fraction of the modern atmosphere that we and other animals find so essential — is a mere byproduct ; something that appeared in the atmosphere almost by chance , long after the first living things evolved . |
| 8 | According to Dr George Eisenbarth , who headed the Joslin team , a simpler version of the test may be developed within the next year , ‘ We and other labs are most certainly working on it , to predict who 's at the most risk of developing diabetes , ’ he declared . |
| 9 | Without them , many of the ecological processes upon which we and other organisms knowingly or unknowingly depend , would soon grind to a halt . |
| 10 | Their activity is put to good account by plants , just as we and other animals eat the plants or even other animals and creatures . |
| 11 | ‘ Now that we know British food is just about the worst in the world , ’ says Jonathon Porritt , director of Friends of the Earth UK , ‘ how ironic it is that we and other rich nations are exporting fat and sugar to starving people in Africa and Asia . |
| 12 | I have said from the beginning that we and other donors , including the European Community , must have arrangements to guard against misappropriation . |
| 13 | Erm the the particular case of Richmondshire having been referred to I I felt I ought to point that er we 're quite content with the concept of Policy E two as giving the strategic weight to the question of protecting the open countryside and the balance , the very difficult balance , decisions that we and other authorities are going to have to come to in preparing our local plan . |
| 14 | Erm we and that 's one reason why we 've brought along the plan which shows the different traf traffic effects . |
| 15 | Yeah , we pay all the year round for that do n't we and that 's all we bloody get out of it . |
| 16 | So we and that 's that really is er is too higher proportion for this day and age , particularly with all the publicity that 's being put out . |
| 17 | Otherwise , all we 've believed in , all that we and those before us have suffered for , will be wasted . |
| 18 | It is possible to argue that the single occurrence of they in the data with a singular verb is accidental ( a ‘ performance error ’ ) but equally possible to claim that the non-occurrence of you , we and these with a singular verb is the consequence of an accidental gap in the corpus ; the line of reasoning characteristic of generative grammar is of little help to us here in choosing between these alternatives . |
| 19 | In our own world we and short-cropped convicts , crew-cut soldiers and service-men generally , monks and others equally ‘ under orders ’ . |
| 20 | So we 've had a look at some of the numbers now have n't we and some of the things you can do with them . |
| 21 | I remember the people that we fed and those who fed us ; after all , what were we but one vast family . |
| 22 | We finished the day with an impromptu game of football in a nearby meadow , followed by a visit to a local hotel which catered for travellers , and who else were we but that ? |
| 23 | What are we but simple Englishmen ? |
| 24 | But er when we when that er train I er had I 'd written the postcard for home and I asked a lady if she 'd post it for me . |
| 25 | As long as we as long as we can persuade people to forget the pyramid er years . |
| 26 | A garage would be nice and as we 've got two cars so although a garage is vital if we as long as we can get them off the road that would be an advantage |
| 27 | I believe that local authorities should have a strong housing function that we as local authorities should be providing good , well managed social housing in which our tenants have a say , where we have good tenant participation , where we have tenants taking a part in the sorts of repairs that they want to see , where every year they are er consulted and asked about where they want us to go next in terms of modernisation and repair . |
| 28 | Writing to Poole in April 1799 , when the Cruikshanks had gone , he remarked that ‘ excepting yourself & Mother there is no human being attached to us & few who do not dislike us ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on , Rachel , you 've been here long enough to know how they love anything like this , especially when it involves one of us or one of the management team . ’ |
| 30 | If it 's decided , any of us or all of us o or our reports , are gon na use Micromail can you let me know ? |