Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report said that UNESCO had not accepted the need for budgetary restraint and was still excessively politicized , adding : " The leverage we retain as a sought-after non-member … is greater than we would wield simply by being one vote among 161 others . " |
| 2 | In this chapter we look at the general nature of weak syllables . |
| 3 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 4 | ‘ We will use whatever influence we have to the full to ensure , for example , that you do n't tax middle-managers with a 49 per cent rate at £27,000 , and you do n't tax people above £40,000 with a combined 59 per cent rate . |
| 5 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 6 | We try as far as possible to relate the work we do in the Technical Department to what goes on in industry and commerce . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The reception , professional way the meetings are organised and the help we receive from the local authority makes us return here time after time . |
| 8 | About three miles beyond the town we turn into a leafy lane leading to a farm . |
| 9 | The facts are there there has been a staggering rise in attacks and murders this union must take the lead we call for the British government to bring in legislation to ban the evil nationalist and fascist political parties , and insist that government strengthens legal protection for third country nationals . |
| 10 | Let me give you one or two specific examples , I 'm always interested , having been in a college for thirty five years in adult education , I 'm interested in the primary schools and I must admit I get more job satisfaction the moment we go in a primary schools than ever I had when I was in the college itself ! |
| 11 | Economics , sociology , mathematics , law and accounting were suggested as the essential subjects , and although colleges could provide liberal studies also , ‘ we would stress the importance we attach to a liberal treatment of the whole curriculum ’ . |
| 12 | The picture we glean from a straight intercensal comparison is , however , misleading . |
| 13 | Similarly , the picture we have of the civil service drawn from such programmes as Yes Minister ! only depicts a small number of Mandarins at the top of the civil service . |
| 14 | To obtain a hand specimen we rely on the differential weathering of the sponge and the matrix . |
| 15 | This motion is about Labour Party accountability to our own union members and not about our accountability to a handful of M Ps , so whatever the result of the er particular , er Labour Party links debate we 've just had , it 's still important to consider the practical er effects of the link we have with the Labour Party locally . |
| 16 | Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible . |
| 17 | Few of us have any idea of how much water we use on an average day . |
| 18 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 19 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 20 | We greatly value the close contact we have with the Junior School prefects and the Sixth Year pupils , as well as the assistance we receive from parents in a variety of situations . |
| 21 | That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government . |
| 22 | It 's the most convincing evidence we have of an alien invasion of this planet , and a matter of public record . |
| 23 | So first we need to be sure that the other record is in fact reliable and , second , we need to remember how little total evidence we have from the ancient past . |
| 24 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 25 | Every morning we travel through the busy city streets by car from the hotel to the Foreign Language Institute , where we teach . |
| 26 | From a famous letter to Rohde we know of the powerful effect that the meeting had on him . |
| 27 | Ethyl alcohol , also known as ethanol , is the alcohol we use as a social lubricant in wines , beers and spirits . |
| 28 | Underwater Safari This month we look as the Great Diving Beetle . |
| 29 | This month we look at the new arrangements for meeting the costs of residential care places . |
| 30 | ‘ An hour ago , a man we know as a Parisian gangster was killed by one of our sentries . |