Example sentences of "we [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This is an attempt to bring a greater level of uniformity than we have achieved so far , but we are bound by agreements made at the time of amalgamation and we can not undermine or contradict those particular decisions , and that 's why in a few cases , particularly in relation to the size of conference , there is some slight imbalance . |
2 | Gareth Rees , co-ordinator of the Norwich Union Coastwatch programme at Farnborough College , said : ‘ Despite increased government legislation and political rhetoric , we are faced with results which indicate for the fourth year running a deterioration in the state of our coastline . |
3 | This year we are engaged in projects as diverse as the Bill of Rights , delays caused by the interaction between domestic and European law , exemplified by the Sunday Trading cases ; and Long Fraud Trials . |
4 | Michael Farrell of the Young Socialists said that the protest was over housing , gerrymandering and discrimination : ‘ We are met by police with batons in their hands . |
5 | Instead of being seen as fighters on behalf of those who struggle with the system , we are seen as architects and defenders of it . |
6 | We are represented by men hungry for high political office who will therefore not rock the party boat ; men whose loyalty is to their political careers , not necessarily their constituents ; men who know nothing of rural life , for why should they , nurtured as they were in towns or suburbs ? |
7 | Sometimes we are joined by mums who we encourage to stay and see what we get up to , and some of the fathers have helped out as well . |
8 | We are treated like buffaloes and horses in our own land . |
9 | Five hundred truck-loads of holly and mistletoe arrived from the New Forest for Christmas 1899 , and in May and June ‘ we are flooded with potatoes and also with strawberries ’ . |
10 | We count the cost when we are deprived of activities and things we enjoy . |
11 | TO FLY / WE ARE BORN OF STARS |
12 | WE ARE BORN OF STARS is the 3-D IMAX film which takes you into a new dimension using state-of-the-art computer graphics . |
13 | Popper makes the point cogently : ‘ we are born with expectations : with ‘ knowledge ’ which , although not valid a priori , is psychologically orgenetically a priori , i.e. prior to all observational experience . |
14 | A similar picture can be seen from Chart 2 which shows how we are perceived in terms of providing ‘ high rates of interest for savings ’ . |
15 | We are inundated with relatives we encourage it and we make it a special time . |
16 | We are inundated with rabbits , so we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top — the pigeons , caterpillars and slugs ate the lot . |
17 | We are based in Personnel Branch in ES Head Officer in Sheffield . |
18 | How we are influenced by others |
19 | At least we are presented with alternatives . |
20 | If we consider why communication might have evolved , we are drawn into types of arguments and speculations which are much less familiar to the lay-person . |
21 | First , there 's a cauliflower and almond soup and we are issued with instructions on how to eat it . |
22 | Gandhi recognizes that in the ordinary circumstances of life we are confronted by situations that make clear-cut decisions or a choice between black and white sometimes impossible . |
23 | Pre-harvest is the silly season for meetings in France , writes Tim Green , and we are bombarded with invitations to attend meetings for all manner of services allied to farming . |
24 | In this day and age when we are bombarded with books on climbing , it is strange to relate that there is no modern comprehensive history of mountaineering . |
25 | ‘ I think we are invaded by Martians … |
26 | Here we are assailed by imperatives : we must not be satisfied by collective explanations , social phenomena must be understood in individualist terms . |
27 | At Macmillan College we select only because we are overwhelmed by applications and by selection we can thus ensure that we do have a fully comprehensive intake drawn from all parts of our catchment area . |
28 | All at once , we are surrounded by men . |
29 | We are surrounded by animals which keep track of their fellows by scent yet we can not even smell a human trail , let alone follow it . |
30 | This essentially rational nature of the human essence explains why thought — such thought as Spinoza tries to express in his work — can influence our behaviour , so that we are guided by conceptions of good and evil . |