Example sentences of "[conj] we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 2 | Plants consume carbon dioxide , releasing the oxygen that we other species require , completing in our turn the full circle by ‘ burning ’ carbon and breathing out carbon dioxide . |
| 3 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 4 | ‘ Allison kept wanting to put these fiddly little bits in and ideas that we all thought were naff , ’ says Charman . |
| 5 | Surely we must keep out of that arms process , if we are to maintain our nation 's influence in the peace process that we all hope will succeed . |
| 6 | I hope that the inquiry will consider all those aspects , because the things that we all desire come at a price . |
| 7 | One of the reasons er with the benefit of hindsight , er was that we underprovided test equipment er as you you have mentioned we have software being written in four nations and er it 's got to be assembled , somewhere . |
| 8 | But he still liked to use the window , maybe just to maintain the impression that we mere humans were here to serve him . |
| 9 | The fear and the incipient hatred are something that we impenitent elitists must learn to live with , not anything we can deny . |
| 10 | November is the kind of month that we year-round walkers cherish . |
| 11 | What has he got that we lesser men have not ? ’ |
| 12 | Right , can I leave you then to the recommendations on page sixteen , notwithstanding all of the suggestions and comments that have been made , that we this year grant twenty-one Saturday City Centre permits , and the officers are clear twenty-one and not twenty-three , that we grant eleven City Centre , mid-week and suburban permits , and do you note that whoever is unsuccessful in obtaining Saturday City Centre permit will be granted one of those and given priority . |
| 13 | No matter what the Annamese named it , my dear young sirs , you 'll find that we French call the city you are about to visit " the Pearl of the Orient " or sometimes even " the Paris of the East . " |
| 14 | We mused quietly on the fact that we prosaic Brits do n't give our winds dramatic-sounding names like our cousins across the Channel . |
| 15 | Because I do not accept absolute predestination , however , and can not believe that we human beings are simply pawns in some giant chess game being played in the wide blue yonder , I think that it is the person within whom the spirit chooses to dwell who actually makes the right or wrong decisions . |
| 16 | Why is it that we human beings are so curious about everything ? |
| 17 | Feature analysis is an attractively simple way of explaining visual perception but , it turns out , ‘ features ’ are much more complex than we first thought . |
| 18 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 19 | But it was also we who taught ourselves and those younger than we that love is not the most important thing in a woman 's life . |
| 20 | Senior council officials in Birmingham , some earning up to £65,000 a year — that is more than we poor Members of Parliament get — are living in council properties and paying rents as low as one fifth of market levels . |
| 21 | ‘ And so , my children , ’ she said , dominating the staff room as inevitably she dominated whenever she chose , ‘ so we all troop along an hour early , as commanded by the Great God Crumwallis , to usher the parents from their Daimlers and along to the glittering scene awaiting them in the Crumwallis quarters . |
| 22 | It is a horrifying thought because a good , well trained polisher would have served a seven year apprenticeship and we contemporary furniture-makers can not pretend to get near that knowledge and experience . |
| 23 | On our new ship Ecstasy , each restaurant seats 650 passengers and we two sittings of each meal at set meal times . |
| 24 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 25 | Well we took your mother and we that time . |
| 26 | Blaming the other is a common phenomenon and we all resort to it at times , whether justified or not . |
| 27 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 28 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 29 | Elite theory accounts of state organization are developed and detailed , and we first review five aspects where the approach has made a distinctive contribution : the role of political leaderships in liberal democracies , the predominance of bureaucracies in shaping policy-making , the reasons for fragmentation ( or centralization ) of governmental tiers and sectors , the role of law , and the strong policy connections between government activities and major economic interests . |
| 30 | the , you 've got , yeah w if we and we both sort of jot down what we 've |