Example sentences of "we [vb base] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
| 2 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 3 | In many cases we speak of a given condition as cause and it is the one action or piece of behaviour involved , something to which responsibility attaches . |
| 4 | Moreover , when we speak of the perceived function of reformed monasteries , we do not mean primarily their economic functions as efficient optimizers of agrarian wealth , or even their cultivation of knowledge and production of books . |
| 5 | Far from explaining how judgement arises out of experience , the holder of the impression theory of perception makes the connection inexplicable , whether we speak of the visual experience of a globe , a duck-rabbit , or a Constable painting of a cornfield . |
| 6 | If we speak of the stylistic values of a non-literary text , we are interested in the way in which linguistic choices are adapted to communicative function — to such functions as newspaper reporting , advertising , scientific exposition . |
| 7 | When we speak of the British constitution that is the normal , if not the only possible meaning the word has . |
| 8 | When we speak of the electronic office we are now referring to an administrative system based largely on computers , word processors and associated communication devices . |
| 9 | The other instance : we are told on unimpeachable authority that a woman is looking forward to the birth of her daughter ; years later we read of a young man arriving on the scene . |
| 10 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 11 | But given its setting , we must not allow ourselves to be blinded by Abraham 's bravery , nor , when we read of the resounding success of his venture , by his military prowess . |
| 12 | Week by week we read of the latest opinion polls on this or that . |
| 13 | Every so often , we are startled , such as when we read of an expatriate black South African who longs for apartheid : ‘ At least in South Africa I knew what I was fighting against . |
| 14 | In short , when we hear of a peaceful society , we are likely to envision a society that is somehow the antithesis of the self-absorbed individualism of the modern urban-industrial world . |
| 15 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 16 | DOWN under being the truly operative phrase , we hear of a stunning revelation about how our Antipodean cousins ‘ sex ’ a grape . |
| 17 | When we hear of the Communist Party appealing for law and order it seems to me that it is a matter of Satan rebuking sin . |
| 18 | We hear of the sexual revolution which is supposed to have happened sometime in the 1960s and liberated women from the constraints of Victorian ideology with its oppressive double standard in which non-marital sex is alright for men and not for women . |
| 19 | We hear of the wise fools of Chelm , of clever Khashinke and silly Bashinkel of David and his slingshot , of the fox and the fishes . |
| 20 | Most important , we know of no other study of community-acquired pneumonia to have obtained follow-up over 2 years after discharge . |
| 21 | We know of no empirical examples of a society that does not , however implicitly , hold collective views on what it means to be a human being . |
| 22 | However , we know of no such defector on that night . |
| 23 | We know of no statutory regulations or taxpayer 's rights . |
| 24 | From a famous letter to Rohde we know of the powerful effect that the meeting had on him . |
| 25 | Such a datIng of the interlaced square and saltire arrangements ( type C arrangements ) accords well with what we know of the continental parallels . |
| 26 | It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves . |
| 27 | Mrs Browning likes to have me with her now , no other person will do , and we talk of the old days and Miss Henrietta slipping off to Regent 's Park to walk with Mr Surtees Cook and the squeezes she loved to hold in Wimpole Street when her father was away . |
| 28 | When we talk of the in-love state , we are usually including strong sexual passion and an intensity of emotion not experienced in other affectionate and loving relationships . |
| 29 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 30 | If we think of an individual asset to be purchased and financed from loan , then the authority begins with no capital . |