Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent . |
| 2 | Well in a modern world we 've lost the faith that certain people are appointed by God to do this for us , or especially naturally fitted to do it , so how are we going to accept the rule of some people rather than others ? |
| 3 | In a restrictive climate we all review our expenditure levels . |
| 4 | Without this single find in a remote country we should only have doubtful knowledge , from some remarks in Herodotus , of archaic decorative metal-work on this scale . |
| 5 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 6 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 7 | As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear . |
| 8 | Arthur Scargill put it that ‘ Whilst we exist in a capitalist society we have to extract from that society the highest possible reward for the labour power that we sell , whilst at the same time trying to change the society . ’ |
| 9 | However , the content through which these mathematical skills are taught has a set of messages all of its own and because we live in a capitalist society we can easily be unaware of these messages — about the exploitation of labour , the sexism , the inequalities based on racism and social class — that are all a part of the ideology of capitalism . |
| 10 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 11 | In a similar way we sometimes need to remind ourselves that young readers have ideas that are worth consideration , and that the administratively-convenient solution to a problem may not be the most valuable one . |
| 12 | In a similar way we can first examine ray average costs and returns to scale along a ray . |
| 13 | In a similar way we can mock an accent or dialect , projecting a stereotyped figure more in the manner that stage actors do than in the manner that mere quotation provides … |
| 14 | In a similar series we also produced ‘ Babes in Toyland ’ , ‘ Merrie England ’ , ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , ‘ The Land of Smiles ’ and others . |
| 15 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 16 | In a recent study we found women with anal cancer to have a high risk of having had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or invasive cervical cancer diagnosed previously . |
| 17 | Now I 'm sure you , Brian , would acknowledge that in a certain sense we are all laymen most of the time . |
| 18 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 19 | If we flew a perfect mission every trip then there would be no need to train , but then in a perfect world we would not need an Army and I would be out of a job . |
| 20 | Hiding from the rain in a smoky bar we missed the twelve o'clock chiming of the Town Hall clock . |
| 21 | In a future issue we hope to explain exactly how it is produced . |
| 22 | In a spoken message we notice the quality of the voice as well : maybe the speaker 's voice was shaking , or they had a particular accent , or hesitated , or slurred their words . |
| 23 | In a limited way we can understand this , because for all of us certain dates stand out with striking significance . |
| 24 | In a major way we found people who simply have n't enough to eat . |
| 25 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 26 | And in a democratic society we are able to confer unbelievable power on a boss simply in the expectation that the value of the rewards the boss controls is great enough to make this subjugation bearable , even though , in law , we are equal . |
| 27 | I think in a democratic society we restrict the security services and that gives the advantage to the terrorists , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Rather than stay in a stuffy room we decided to carry on with our lessons out of sight of the road in the back garden , which was more distracting but more pleasant . |
| 29 | In a long poem we expect to find breathing-spaces interspersed between the more important sections of the poem ; in The Prelude the real matter is the philosophy , and the narrative passages , as can be clearly seen here , are illustrations of it . |
| 30 | Many couples continue to enjoy sexual intercourse once or twice a week into old age , but some people have neither the inclination or ability for this , and of course in a long relationship we do adjust to our partner 's needs . |