Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adj] [noun] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you know , I 've been on the look out for some years for a smaller company we could have a friendly merger with , but there 's nothing even remotely promising at the moment . |
| 2 | This is being conducted by Simon Holdaway , an ex-police officer turned academic , with whom I discussed the anthropological potential for police studies at a 1988 conference we both attended . |
| 3 | But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns . |
| 4 | As working volunteers of a fraternal railway we were taken on the strength of the Llangollen railway for the day , and , clad in our reflective waistcoats , we were conducted along the track , first on foot , then on the ‘ Neptune ’ , a diesel track inspection vehicle . |
| 5 | A leading City analyst described the move as ‘ very sensible — just the thing to kill off all the rumours about a convertible issue we were hearing six weeks ago ’ . |
| 6 | There is much talk from our politicians about a moral crisis we are facing . |
| 7 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 8 | As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear . |