Example sentences of "we [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Naturally we regret any rise in bankruptcies , but let us remember the strengths of British industry , which has increased exports in the past 10 years by more than France , Germany , the United States or Japan — The hon. and learned Gentleman does not like that answer because he wants to talk Britain down . |
2 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
3 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
4 | We commend close attention to the way time is used in the curriculum . |
5 | Finally then , as feminists , it is vital that we raise these issues in our trade unions , our work , our political parties and at local grass-roots level , insisting that feminist demands are incorporated into the general political strategy and so broadening the socialist perspective . |
6 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
7 | For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief . |
8 | Why are we seeing this lack of grace ? |
9 | We met each other at the same art gallery in Milford Haven and the vibe was just right . ’ |
10 | We met each other at the same art gallery in Milford Haven and the vibe was just right . ’ |
11 | On the way we met two patrols with machine guns and my escort had to give what I thought was a password . |
12 | We met next time with me in uniform , and she evacuated with some of her patients to Polegate . |
13 | We met this distinction between controlled and uncontrolled X in Section 6.1 . |
14 | In the first test , we applied acoustic-phonetic constraints by introducing lexical stress into the representations . |
15 | In the second , we applied lexicon-based constraints by implementing an heuristic which preferred longer words over short ones . |
16 | ‘ We lay great stress on them . |
17 | In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road . |
18 | How can we explain this ascendancy of Christian indifference over Christian compassion ? |
19 | Yet we remain human beings with quivering flesh and throbbing nerves who need the small delights of emotional well-being . |
20 | This observation , that we remain uncritical observers in dreaming , forms an important part of some recent theorizing about dreaming by the psychophysiologist Allan Rechtschaffen , who has described dreams as being " isolated " and even " unimaginative " in the sense that we can not imagine something else during the action of a dream . |
21 | But I did argue when she insisted that we remain separated while on the planet . |
22 | It is precisely in order to make sounder legal and moral judgments , and to evaluate their cost , that we bring economic analysis to a problem like insider trading . ’ |
23 | We bring this motion for the council tonight as committed as anybody in this chamber to social housing . |
24 | Repetition can be visual ; and we advocate this technique in the section on Notes of notes in chapter 4 , and the section on Swot cards in chapter 7 . |
25 | At the beginning of Chapter 3 , in Table 3.1 , we divided financial institutions into two groups : those comprising the monetary sector and those which we called non-bank financial intermediaries , now ‘ NBFIs ’ for short . |
26 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |
27 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
28 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
29 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
30 | We made many friends in Lourdes . |