Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While recognising that conflict is something we bring to a relationship and is not inherent in the substance of the relationship itself , the circumstances of those relationships can nonetheless bring enormous pressure to bear on the responses we may make . |
| 2 | And we cause the hunger and poverty , we , as the West , not necessarily as individuals because we insist on a lifestyle that acquires things and in doing that , er we 've subverted God . |
| 3 | We need to be aware that many of the ideas we introduce on an assumption that they are reflecting the children 's backgrounds may have little or no meaning or relevance for the children . |
| 4 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 5 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 6 | And to ensure that we act as a group and not just a collection of separate offices . |
| 7 | There are various contexts in which we speak of a person or institution being an authority . |
| 8 | On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shooting stars that we speak of a star or meteor shower . |
| 9 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 10 | We duck into a gulley and the waves curl around the boat . |
| 11 | I mean why do people have to kind of , if , if , if we accept for a minute that there 's something in this analogy , this model that Freud is talking about , why do people have this compulsive need to repeat like this , why do they have to repeat history ? |
| 12 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 13 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 14 | It is also a comfort that we run in an environment where the whole file system is backed up every night . |
| 15 | If we look at a relationship or any type of communication as a situation where somebody 's going to win and somebody 's going to lose there 's not gon na be much chance of two people working together on that so what happens is somebody 's got to lose . |
| 16 | If we look at a relationship or any type of commu mean taking a bit of a different look at things thinking well what is it that this person wants from me and what is it that I want from this person ? |
| 17 | It is easy enough to send information at the speed of light : after all , we do exactly this when we wave at a friend or , to be more subtle , use any form of sign language . |
| 18 | To change this attitude , if we assume for a moment that we would wish to change it , would either require a change in fundamental attitude or some form of new legislation . |
| 19 | We know for a fact if/when Strach is nt playing Macca picks his game up again . |
| 20 | ‘ We know for a fact that Fintan Butler is an IRB courier , ’ the Major continued . |
| 21 | Orr Ewing said ‘ We know for a fact that 20 thieves come here regularly from the north of England , but it is not easy to catch them . |
| 22 | ‘ We know for a fact that bombs had been prepared in the past for Portadown but the security presence in the area prevented them from being used here . |
| 23 | We know for a fact that the area was sealed off and that army and rescue services were called to the scene . |
| 24 | This is the nearest we get to an announcement that his long hibernation has transformed him . |
| 25 | Three so number of columns three , and I 'm not quite sure how many rows we want , how many questions we get on a page but perhaps try for thirty something like that , okay okay , now table is n't showing , go to view , oh , go to tables sorry table and you see grid lines is not clicked so click on grid lines , and if the table does n't show that 's usually why . |
| 26 | For example , we believe as a group that we can only survive in our chosen business of the chemical industry if we serve the customers who are at the leading edge of development , wherever they may be . |
| 27 | We believe as a Party that the power of this county be individual , that he or she should have the power to choose . |
| 28 | The charitable world as a whole , as I 'm sure many of you know , has been severely hit by the recession er our donations received this year are dramatically down on last year 's and we operate on a shoestring but the provision of teams to go round the world , the provision of training , even with all the help we get from the R Y A still costs a lot of money . |
| 29 | If we follow Wimsatt and Beardsley this far , we arrive at a position that has had a great deal of attraction for literary critics , that the object of criticism must be the literary text itself . |
| 30 | Er this is the end of the day report and that we keep in a file and they , they could be brought . |