Example sentences of "we [vb base] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 2 | When we hear of such cases , we investigate and draw on as many sources as possible to find out what happened … |
| 3 | We hear of other cases where the decision was based on Russian tribute being lighter than that of other overlords . |
| 4 | We hear of mysterious deaths of whales and dolphins on the Scottish coast , and of the virtual disappearance of sea-trout from some of their west coast rivers . |
| 5 | When we hear of dramatic changes in the defendants ’ status , from City supremos to detainees of Her Majesty , are n't our reactions caused by our notions of status ? |
| 6 | However , we know of two firms who make similar dovecotes together with other garden ornaments : Roseney Farm Designs , Lanlivery , Bodmin , Cornwall ( Tel : 0208 872664 ) and Forsham Dovecotes , Goreside Farm , Great Chart , Ashford , Kent ( Tel : 0233–820 229 ) . |
| 7 | We know of such things , but we do not concern ourselves with them . |
| 8 | Burun Khan may have told you that we know of such machines , but do not concern ourselves with them . |
| 9 | We are inclined to think they are pretty typical , given our less detailed work at other football grounds and what we know of other groups of schoolchildren . |
| 10 | We know of other stars whose brightness changes periodically , over a timespan of hours , weeks or years . |
| 11 | We know of many violations of the Labour Code , women employed in hard physical labour which should legally be carried out by men . |
| 12 | But in fact we know of existing animals with a whole range of light-sensitive organs , from those which can merely detect whether the animal is in the light or the dark , through organs capable of detecting the direction of the incident light , up to proper image-forming eyes . |
| 13 | We know of innumerable kinds of things that could not possibly be the answer to our question ; we know , then , what God is not , but nothing at all of what God is . |
| 14 | But from what we know of local practices It would seem that she must have been crucified Very near an ant-hill . |
| 15 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |
| 16 | From what we know of primitive races it is highly probable that the incentive for producing these paintings was magical , the object being to fix in paint on the wall or ceiling of a cave an event — usually the slaying of an animal — which it was hoped would be effected in the future elsewhere . |
| 17 | We talk of many things , have no secrets from each other . |
| 18 | The theological term for this is analogia fidei ; that is to say , when we talk of eternal verities we have to resort to pictures , stories and other analogical expressions . |
| 19 | When we talk of human rights in relation to AIDS , these are ‘ our ’ rights too , not merely ‘ theirs ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps I ought to make it clear that , when we talk of qualified lenders , we have in mind building societies , banks , insurance companies and other institutional lenders . |
| 21 | But to attempt to isolate them , in practice , can be no more than an illustrative device since the language-game we use of human beings encapsulates the possibility that at any moment Mary can be summoned from such a state , or summon herself , to one of reflection about her reasons for adopting this or that tactic . |
| 22 | But , then , we think of such objects as temporally extended . |
| 23 | Naturally , when we think of unwritten possibilities , we mean those realizations which " could have been " purely in terms of the language : we do not presume to delve into the psychology of the author , or to tamper with the text itself . |
| 24 | That is , if ( for the purposes of semantic or pragmatic interpretation ) we think of deictic expressions as anchored to specific points in the communicative event , then the unmarked anchorage points , constituting the deictic centre , are typically assumed to be as follows : ( i ) the central person is the speaker , ( ii ) the central time is the time at which the speaker produces the utterance , ( iii ) the central place is the speaker 's location at utterance time or CT , ( iv ) the discourse centre is the point which the speaker is currently at in the production of his utterance , and ( v ) the social centre is the speaker 's social status and rank , to which the status or rank of addressees or referents is relative . |
| 25 | Just there are one or two I mean when we see tall , thin , young people we think of all sorts of interesting medical things , but most of them are completely at all , you see so |
| 26 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 27 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 28 | In the second place , the account that has been provided has been shown to be open to differing interpretations of value ; in other words , while we may agree what the main changes in the family have been , we may disagree over whether or not we approve of these changes . |
| 29 | This is backed up by the accounts we have of many aspects of the economic structure of the music business then : the drive for profit , the trend towards monopoly and conglomeration , the conservative appeal to the predictable and universally understood ( see for example , Peterson and Berger 1975 : 160–4 ; Laing 1969 : 43–5 ; Sanjek 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Even in areas outside this great span — in Australia for example , the South Pacific or Amerindia — the main detailed knowledge that we have of these cultures is — almost by definition — in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write . |