Example sentences of "we the " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile , we the wise , to quote Erving Goffman ( 1963 ) are allowed increasing manpower to pursue the cannabis/hallucinogenic using folk devil and to present the incompetent and the inept from the hippie element to the courts and the public for their solace ; and to assure them that drug taking is being stamped out . |
2 | ‘ We the British have undisputed and unchallenged choice of the final two . |
3 | An enclosed community guards and cares for an enclosed community and we the public gladly subcontract this duty , hoping that it will be carried out unseen and unheard . |
4 | Have we the capacity to remain together even though there may be real theological differences among us ? |
5 | Are we the only dogs chosen for our star signs or have any of you had this star treatment ? |
6 | In the wake of the gene-splicing revolution , we have the technology but have we the right to make our own animals ? |
7 | We the Belpan army , man , we got the uniforms , right ? ’ |
8 | In what factual sense are we the same as animals ? |
9 | All the participants were unskilled and the majority , as we the group-takers understood it , had migrated to this town from the larger industrial cities that the seaside resort served as a holiday venue . |
10 | I mean , are we the only ones who heard the SOS ? |
11 | ‘ Have we the moral right to ask the crew of the salvage vessel or lifting vessel , not to mention the divers , to join us , in Lieutenant Denholm 's elegant phrase , in drifting through the stratosphere in vaporized orbit ? ’ |
12 | ‘ Are we the same people that we were thirty , forty , fifty years ago ? ’ |
13 | ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’ |
14 | I think it is well to begin by admitting that the Austrian people , as a whole , have more potential artistic ability than have we the English . |
15 | At this point , we the consumers have to be presented with a moral choice . |
16 | This follows the American tradition : ‘ We the people of the United States … do ordain and establish this constitution ’ . |
17 | For such customers have we the properties of the most popular Matroc materials listed . |
18 | W we the mechanism of finding out the jobs |
19 | We the I R S E ? |
20 | And er we the tea the class All the boys It were all boys er we we had to carry Each carry a chair up to the new school . |
21 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
22 | Erm but erm we we 've gone through the games have n't we the marbles and that sort of thing we we played that |
23 | And erm so we the the way we work it out ourselves , is that we do n't actually pay people 's fuel bills . |
24 | We the both together you could g you could go down either shaft , but you had three doors to come through from one pit to the other . |
25 | We the doctors move between ceiling and floor , between striplight and the croak of linoleum . |
26 | We the undermentioned agree to cut and secure all the corn grown on the farm in a workmanlike manner to my satisfaction ; make bottoms of stacks ; cover up when required ; hoe the turnips twice and turn or lift the barley once ; turn the pease once — each man to find a gaveller . |
27 | But because they are supposed to be utterly other and not-us — the barbarians outside the city — and because we the powerful can not imagine the situation of being the victims of such a war , this normality is perceived as incomprehensible . |
28 | And it 's most important that we the Parish Council get in our erm send our views to the , the commissioners . |
29 | the fact that , that we the Parish Council maintain that pitch , |
30 | Have we the report of that interview ? ’ |