Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But on the Continent we meddle with mere currency ; we argue of currency unions and common coinage . |
| 2 | The skills of salesmanship and political demagogy are virtually the only methods we have for changing perception . |
| 3 | Through gossip we learn from other people 's lives without undergoing the pain or danger of their experiences . |
| 4 | In addition to the weight we gain from careless reliance on fatty foods , it also contributes to high cholesterol levels ( see above ) . |
| 5 | This is the thanks we get near civil war in the boardroom . |
| 6 | Human life is gregarious , the quality of our lives depending to no small degree upon the relationships we have with other people . |
| 7 | In this chapter we consider of casual working in the hotels and catering sector . |
| 8 | Getting some information on our actions and the effect we have on other people can also be very useful feedback . |
| 9 | ‘ We can never measure the effect we have on other people , ’ he said , although he , more than most , had a fair idea . |
| 10 | Age is no longer the benchmark criterion we use for distinguishing people . |
| 11 | Of course , in our actual observation and collection of data we move from particular individuals and instances to the general , abstracting from the particular what we see to be shared and are told is socially expected and approved . |
| 12 | Happiness , surely , is a bonus we enjoy at unforgettable moments in time . |
| 13 | Living up to other people 's signalled expectations is often a pleasure/pain experience : pleasure in the recognition we receive for satisfying others ' expectations , pain in the sense that we lose some of our independence and freedom . |
| 14 | By the Carboniferous many of the shapes we see in living gastropods can be matched in the fossils , but despite these similarities the majority of the Palaeozoic forms were not closely related to their living analogues ; this is another example of similar-looking forms evolving independently probably in response to similar life habits . |
| 15 | There are ways of saving money without missing out and in this issue we look at sparkling alternatives to champagne which will add the fizz to the proceedings without breaking the bank . |
| 16 | ‘ We are very grateful for the donations we receive from charitable organisations like BLISS , but in the last two to three years there has been an additional £800,000 investment in special baby care units from Mersey region . ’ |
| 17 | As readers , we too imagine causes and motivations which are based on analogies we draw with other novels and other narratives . |
| 18 | While the visuals usually tell the story , remember that we lose the support of many of the visual elements we get in realistic presentations — lip movements for example . |
| 19 | Through observation of his own case , he became convinced that chronic muscle tension — a result of life 's physical and emotional stresses — which overlays and destroys natural poise we have as tiny children , and manifests itself in hunched shoulders , clenched jaws , a slouched or twisted spine , with , as often as not , the head held to one side , could not but interfere with the efficient functioning of the body , restricting breathing , circulation and digestion . |
| 20 | As Schotland argues : ‘ [ w ] hen we engage in economic analysis , we do not banish permanently the legal and moral aspects of the problem analyzed . |
| 21 | In the mundane , we live within the laws of the mundane and see that others obey the laws ; but in the transcendent we pass beyond physical and man-made laws and beyond even good and evil . |
| 22 | On this heady diet we move from intoxicating anticipation to deep despair . |
| 23 | This section , known as " the book of the covenant " , is the oldest record we have of Jewish law . |
| 24 | ‘ Our senses … do convey into the mind , several distinct perceptions of things … and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow , white , [ etc . ] ’ |
| 25 | Because of the odd separations we make between qualitative and quantitative aspects of planning , enrolments tend to be regarded as the purview of the educational administrator . |
| 26 | In Europe police organisation is hierarchical , centralised and supervised by the government , all of which may account for the tendency to rely on police investigations while , at the same time , declining to constrain them by the kind of normative rules we find in Anglo-American law . |
| 27 | Whatever national curriculum we have at secondary school , this curriculum will have consequences for primary school . |
| 28 | We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking |
| 29 | These are included in order to illustrate the kind of structural and situational constraint we face in developing ‘ Pub Grub ’ operations . |
| 30 | In the same year the Swiss scholar , J. J. Bachofen , published Das Mutterrecht , ( Mother Right ) , a book showing that matriliny , the tracing of descent through women , and matriarchy , the dominance of women in society , as well as the cult of female goddesses , preceded the patriarchy and the patriliny we find in Biblical and Classical societies . |