Example sentences of "we a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay we a major cause of some five hundred thousand pounds and we give addition to the three point six five one million which has been identified in this amendment . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , are we a little banana-brain after all ? ’ |
| 3 | We also have a few little phrases in the UN 's so-called Global Plan of Action for Marine Mammals which give us a small hook on which to hang international actions for the benefits of both whales and seals . |
| 4 | So , by dint of various enquiries , we managed to locate a house in a more salubrious area , Cardington Road , where the landlady was prepared to offer us a small sitting-room in addition , for an extra guinea a week . |
| 5 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 6 | Plotting OU 1 against OY 1 on graph ( iv ) gives us a second point on the unemployment-income curve ( point B ) . |
| 7 | ‘ It gave us a second pop at Morley Street , and he was stopping , ’ said Elsworth . |
| 8 | This gives us a second combination of interest and income ( 10% and £40m. ) which must also be on the IS curve . |
| 9 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 10 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 11 | This stress on the interdependence of social phenomena , though it may be circular and is not exhaustive , takes us a long way in understanding the basic dynamics of community life . |
| 12 | Behind us a long chain of tiny lights danced slowly away from the refuge towards the col du Chardonnet , as last night 's occupants resumed the Haute Route . |
| 13 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 14 | From some time in high summer until we left the Pit the guards started bringing us a regular supply of videos . |
| 15 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 16 | Planning our future gives us a greater sense of internal control and increases self-esteem . |
| 17 | Curiously enough , however , these are among the very people who tend to shy away from any kind of subjective description of what being a believer is like , and one frequently finds an empathic researcher who does not believe and may even be unsympathetic giving us a greater insight into what it is like to be a member of a particular religion ( see , for example , Cashmore , 1983 ; Judah , 1974 , Westley , 1983 or Lofland , 1976 ) . |
| 18 | It was for both of us a temporary refuge from a reality which was n't giving either of us much joy . |
| 19 | Vegetable juice is even less desirable , and the resulting plant print rarely has any relevance to the text Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave us a gentle reminder in Aurora Leigh : |
| 20 | They therefore offered us a ground-floor flat in a house that they owned . |
| 21 | Lewis 's claim that ‘ the records ’ give us a stark choice about Christ — either he was a ‘ raving lunatic ’ or else ‘ He was , and is , precisely what He said ’ — is startling , to say the least . |
| 22 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ The game will give us a decent idea of what he is like . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Then , dear fellow , make with the stuff , bring forth a get-up , lay on the gear , give us a decent hit for the love of Mike , for by Zeus I am surely clucking fit to bust . ’ |
| 24 | This gives us a powerful sense of tradition , in the best sense of the word . |
| 25 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 26 | Theridamas offers us a useful way of looking at Tamburlaine 's character when he comes to fight him in Act one . |
| 27 | Monsieur Brisset arranged an appointment for us , and later that day Paul Ingouf , in his office , passed to us a typewritten page from the secret daily record that had been kept during the war ; listed there we saw : |
| 28 | If , furthermore , you wished to sell us a narrow strip of your garden to allow the shelter to be set back a little from the pavement , we could consider providing a fence along your full frontage as part of the accommodation works . |
| 29 | They gave us a consolidated figure of various numbers of P W's that are held , and of the numbers of erm dead that are held . |
| 30 | She writes , ‘ The children are thriving and our jobs give us a great sense of contribution and pleasure ! ’ |