Example sentences of "[vb -s] we [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , we have amended the legislation in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 , which again places us in the vanguard of Europe , with additional provisions for integrated pollution control for those industrial processes with the most potential for pollution , and for a duty of care for all producers and handlers of waste . |
| 2 | Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’ |
| 3 | It is that , more than the power of abstract reasoning , which elevates us above the kine and the denizens of the deep . |
| 4 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 5 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 6 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 7 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 8 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
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| 10 | Often the wonderful natural natural story-teller in Walker breaks through the marshmallow and has us on the edge of the chair , but finally and lamentably this is a failure . |
| 11 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |
| 12 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 13 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |
| 14 | Sustainable development consoles us with the idea that we can go on having more provided we are more hygienic and respect nature . |
| 15 | In the flickering firelight Kalchu beseeched him , ‘ Lord , you are the one who , when we have nothing , feeds us with water and clothes us with the wind . |
| 16 | Mr Moore bounces us up the stairs , throwing open the door of a small room painted buttermilk yellow in the converted stable . |
| 17 | Olivia Durdin-Robertson meets us at the porch , under the protective wing of Horus . |
| 18 | Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress . |
| 19 | The old , old fashion — Death ! ( 4 ) Oh thank GOD , all who see it , for that older fashion yet , of immortality ! ( 5 ) And look upon us , angels of young children , with regards not quite estranged , when the swift river bears us to the ocean ! ( 6 ) At such points Dickens has a way of enlarging his theme beyond the narrative pretext , addressing his readers directly as sharers of a common human lot with himself and his characters . |
| 20 | It fills us with a deep warmth that will last past midnight . |
| 21 | Unlike the singer-songwriter creed , attention is always drawn away from the song to the figure of the person working at it : there 's a flagrant exhibitionism that forces us into the role of voyeur . |
| 22 | It is perhaps appropriate that even the date of the birth of a personality who still eludes us despite the myriad of books written about her is uncertain . |
| 23 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 24 | Contrary to what Tony Lumpkin believes , speaking for all those who have been subjected to the drudgery of learning it in school , grammar is not a constraining imposition but a liberating force : it frees us from a dependency on context and the limitations of a purely lexical categorization of reality . |
| 25 | Elstir 's paintings persuade Marcel of their truth , but it 's a truth which is different from the intellectual truth which he first brought to his initial contemplation of those paintings , and Marcel says that in this way , by his art , Elstir frees us from the cramping tyranny of the intellect , by painting , and again I quote , ‘ by painting some unusual picture of a familiar object . |
| 26 | Separation releases the brakes of the inhibition and frees us in the two worlds . |
| 27 | It is this perspective which links us to the work of Goffman , Harre and Giddens . |
| 28 | Recent newspaper reports have highlighted the potential threat to Britain when the Channel Tunnel links us with the Continent . |
| 29 | The mystery therefore , remains , but it is not the only mystery attached to the Charfield disaster , indeed the one which most concerns us in the context of the strange and uncanny is the riddle of the unclaimed bodies . |
| 30 | On the main part of the continental shelves , which is the region that chiefly concerns us in the stratigraphy of the continents , the chief contribution of Recent sedimentary studies , in my opinion , has been the demonstration of lateral rather than vertical sedimentation . |