Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 2 | In their two contrasting styles we return to the main theme of this chapter : boyo Neil 's communicating style emphasising ‘ commonality ’ ; and the formal prime ministerial Margaret Thatcher style emphasising ‘ control ’ . |
| 3 | In many respects we act in the shoes of solicitors and legal advisers because we have gained great experience in dealing with these matters . |
| 4 | We tend to regard the Middle East as a ‘ trouble spot ’ and our understanding of the region and its culture is limited by the stereotyped images we receive through the media . |
| 5 | we , I 've had when we go down , on Thursdays we go to the sports hall sometimes if it 's wet and erm we 're to erm do things the teachers and I er , have tried a bit of basketball but I ai n't got it into |
| 6 | Also , the stereotyped aspects we recognize in a problem situation depend upon how we look , which in turn is based upon our personal belief and value systems . |
| 7 | Sometimes we come very close to the world outside , for example when we hear someone say the words we need for a piece of writing we 're involved in we commit it lovingly to memory so we can use it . |
| 8 | Newspaper , radio and television reports are intimately involved in the formation of our images of the places beyond our immediate experience , and the pictures we form of the places featured in our study are no exception . |
| 9 | ‘ We have a clear groupwide strategy to establish a sound financial business with the capacity for future investment in the many exploration and development opportunities we have around the world . |
| 10 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 11 | As for NME 's opinion of her work , you should know how much we love Madonna by how much we love Ice-T , Suede and all the other insolent wasters we praise to the hilt each week . |
| 12 | The noises we hear about the need to extend the war aims are mainly excuses for not knowing quite how to get Saddam out of Kuwait without exposing allied soldiers to Iraqi machine guns . |
| 13 | The manual is not only one of the most interesting documents to come out of the Sultanate , it is also one of the most precious keys we have to the concerns that meant most to the war-obsessed amirs of Tughluk Delhi . |
| 14 | erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I was only thinking about all those prayers we say for the conversion of China . |
| 16 | For example , when we say ‘ genes are trying to increase their numbers in future gene pools ’ , what we really mean is ‘ those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ’ . |
| 17 | Most of the wounds we see in the A&E department are in otherwise fit young individuals and will heal with or without intervention . |
| 18 | Medical opinion is another influential source of dominant social attitudes , and its views on ageing are central to the expectations we have about the ‘ normal ’ condition of older people . |
| 19 | It is important that as Christians we conceive of the corporation as a community which has as an objective more than just profit maximisation . |
| 20 | We require also to recruit and motivate the best people and this in turn requires a good reputation , not only for the goods we make and the worthiness of our contribution to society , but also the way in which we do these things , the sort of people we employ and the contributions we make in the area , and whether we are good citizens or not . |
| 21 | In the intertestamental days we read of the Messiah , ‘ God will make him mighty in the Holy Spirit ’ ( Psalms of Solomon 17:37 ) , and in the Targum or Commentary on Isaiah 42 : 1 , the Servant is seen as the Messiah , and God says of him ‘ I will cause my Holy Spirit to rest on him . ’ |
| 22 | Since the day we installed it , the Macintosh has also been linked to the various PCs we have around the office , a simple enough task but one which has caused considerable wonderment , even among the dealer community . |
| 23 | We need to be aware that many of the ideas we introduce on an assumption that they are reflecting the children 's backgrounds may have little or no meaning or relevance for the children . |
| 24 | But what of the ideas we have of a centaur , of God , of infinity , or of an as yet unbuilt house ? |
| 25 | Certainly we can not rest with the three ordinary ideas we have of the distinction between the causal items and their effects . |
| 26 | It would certainly include : the physical lay-out of the houses we live in and of the settlements of which they form a part ; the general pattern of conventional procedures by which foodstuffs and other necessities of life are produced and distributed and finally consumed ; the way children are brought up ; the way tasks are allocated to different members of the household ; the ideas we have about the nature of reality and of the cosmos , our sense of what is the proper way to behave towards kin and neighbours and persons in authority ; the kinds of clothes and the styles of language which are appropriate to different occasions , etc . |
| 27 | We 're extremely interested in the women we try to treat them as individuals we cope with a lot of problems and I think if we look as women as individuals , each individual woman has a different problem . |
| 28 | The first authorities we meet on the Celts , Ephorus and Timaeus , are typical armchair historians . |
| 29 | as the wishes we make to the sky . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency . |