Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 2 | In their two contrasting styles we return to the main theme of this chapter : boyo Neil 's communicating style emphasising ‘ commonality ’ ; and the formal prime ministerial Margaret Thatcher style emphasising ‘ control ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency . |
| 4 | Nearly all the farmhouses we see between the compact villages of the country between the Yorkshire and the Dorset coasts date from the century 1750–1850 . |
| 5 | In many cases we speak of a given condition as cause and it is the one action or piece of behaviour involved , something to which responsibility attaches . |
| 6 | ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . |
| 7 | If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between . |
| 8 | Since the values for E and G vary , of course , for each solid the values we get for the theoretical strengths will vary too . |
| 9 | Do you think the fact that the French erm constitution and the French administration is so different from the British administration , this leads to some of the erm occasional tangles and differences of views we have between the British and French ? |
| 10 | After prayers and meditations we move to the high altar where a female form , draped entirely in black , is seated on a chair beside the statue of Isis . |
| 11 | As with all dreams we reach for the ideal … ’ |
| 12 | All of our businesses have maintained or improved their market shares as managers we concentrate on the full year rather on either half and because of our seasonal bias er , those of you who 've been , er , to our interim presentations before er , will remember that without fail I tell you our results at the half-way stage are not a clear guide to the outcome of the year as a whole . |
| 13 | We are interested in the relationship between studying a subject , and students ' sense of identity : the way in which the beliefs we hold about an academic discipline affect our sense of who we are . |
| 14 | This idea also correlates with the positions we ascribe to the various functions of the individual in that the physical outer layer is associated particularly with the digestive and generative processes in the abdominal region , emotions are associated with the heart in the thorax and thinking is an attribute of the brain in the head . |
| 15 | these Coward films are probably the nearest things we have to a valid modern school in British cinema … . |
| 16 | You know some of the ways we think about the Holy Spirit and some of the ways in which the Holy Spirit helps us . |
| 17 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 18 | Greenpeace International science representative Jeremy Leggett has called the agreement " full of wonderful rhetoric and pitifully short of substance given the breadth and magnitude of the threats we face in the Arctic " . |
| 19 | You did ask a question earlier on and I think the the erm behind the question was the suggestion that erm the Local Authority Councillors we have on the governing bodies are a terrible interfering lot of bigots erm and erm surprisingly you might like to know that they 're not really . |
| 20 | Moore joins in , so that for a brief couple of seconds we sound like a small cracked tribute to Sir Harry Secombe . |
| 21 | Thus stock markets are no longer simply domestic institutions , one of the points we explore in the following section . |
| 22 | That I think gets us to the erm paper which I put down this morning , erm based upon erm primarily based upon that last erm graph , an and Graham 's best estimate of our likely out turn for this year , because they erm , in fact you 're , erm you 're reckoning that the erm , the number of complaints we receive by the thirty first of March next year , it 'll be four two fo four two , is your best seasonally adjusted guess . |
| 23 | If we find an inmate who is taking drugs we go through the disciplinary procedures . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ The provision of child psychiatry health service in South Tees is an important development in the services we offer to the local population and one of which we are tremendously proud . ’ |
| 25 | Occupational background can emblazon the personality with unmistakable illumination for the endeavours we make towards a better and more acceptable society . |
| 26 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 27 | Now , colleagues we come to the thorny question of election to these bodies . |
| 28 | Even the article ‘ Conductor ’ in the New Grove dictionary of opera is , unfortunately , misleading : for all its caution , it attempts to paint the whole period from 1750 to Napoleon , and in doing so unjustifiably reinforces certain impressions we recall from the powerful pens of the Encyclopedists : |