Example sentences of "[pron] we [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consciousness does have a unique character about it , a character which we know from direct experience and which we can reasonably attribute by analogy to other human beings and , perhaps , to cats . |
| 2 | Posidonius had to interpret the strong belief in the other world which we know from independent evidence to have existed among the Celts of his time . |
| 3 | They move mainly by climbing , gripping with their flexible toes and progressing with the ease with which we walk on level ground . |
| 4 | … having myself graduated in Business over 40 years ago , there seems to be a remarkable cycle in which we return to particular models every few decades . |
| 5 | We have felt obliged to play up those special things which we alone do and to keep quiet about those which we hold in common . |
| 6 | THE goal of individual freedom and the value of society , which we advocate as democratic socialists , is a theory of sustained intellectual force . |
| 7 | The main assumptions of this debate are structured by concepts and social conventions which through the past centuries have helped us to understand reality : keywords of emerging bourgeois society like ‘ individual ’ , ‘ society ’ , ‘ state ’ , ‘ market ’ , ‘ democracy ’ have slightly different connotations in different Western societies and in different periods but — on the whole — form the common language with which we communicate about complex processes and attempt to understand and structure them . |
| 8 | The ways in which we communicate in face-to-face interaction can be summarised like this : |
| 9 | Einstein posed a searching question for such systems which we put in modern dress : can an astronaut inside the capsule determine his state of motion without looking out of the capsule ? |
| 10 | when Moore says he knows such and such [ for instance that he has two hands : JD ] he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing ; propositions , that is , which have a peculiar logical role in the system of our empirical propositions . |
| 11 | Many of the rhymes and stories which we use with young children include the use of number names . |
| 12 | Note that the basic approach , with very young children , is in many ways similar to that which we use with other age groups : I , the teacher , do not know . |
| 13 | The awareness on which valuation depends is that on which we act in ordinary life , seldom treatable by the strict methods of proof of the sciences . |
| 14 | ( For example , the electric repulsive force between two electrons is due to the exchange of virtual photons , which can never be directly detected ; but if one electron moves past another , real photons may be given off , which we detect as light waves . ) |
| 15 | It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom . |
| 16 | Boston therefore suffers many of the ills which we associate with inner-city decline . |
| 17 | The Pack also contains helpful inserts describing clearly the Barclays services which we offer to new and growing businesses . |
| 18 | On this occasion , because of the unique nature of the measure , we should be prepared to consider in Committee changing the way in which we deal with statutory instruments , enabling us to give them more adequate scrutiny . |
| 19 | This is not surprising since we have to think and write with a vocabulary which we share with lay persons . |
| 20 | Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ . |
| 21 | Because of this failure to develop , the great debate about liberty and the control of power in the technological age , which we see in other Western nations , is passing the country by , almost unnoticed . |
| 22 | I have tried to mention the more common diseased which we see in young foals . |
| 23 | By unity of type is meant that fundamental agreement in structure which we see in organic beings of the same class , and which is quite independent of their habits of life . |
| 24 | At this point , new but emotionally-related material should appear to capture our interest , and itself give way to what we heard first , which we greet with renewed interest . |
| 25 | Such increases as have occurred in on-licence sales have tended to be in products such as lager , cider , wines and spirits , many of which we purchase from outside suppliers in the form of proprietary brands . |
| 26 | They say the child is father to the man ; yet looking back , across those immensities , those aeons , separating myself now from myself then , I can see almost nothing that I owe to him , almost nothing we have in common . |
| 27 | Our resorts are off the beaten track ; to reach them we fly to offbeat airfields with skimpy facilities , or we take unfashionably long bus drives from better known airports . |
| 28 | A spiritual director is not a problem-solver to whom we run for infallible answers . |
| 29 | Our different understandings add richness to the Church , and our need to continue developing our faith is something we share in common . |
| 30 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |