Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 All except ( 6 ) have an introductory adverbial clause or phrase providing a point of orientation before we launch into a main clause .
2 We launch into a little Talmudic logic-chopping of our own on the question of free will and responsibility when a dybbuk is in residence .
3 Then we launch into the unknown future .
4 In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body .
5 We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns .
6 We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range .
7 And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck .
8 Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole .
9 There is no logical starting point , since we bring to a literary text simultaneously two faculties , however imperfectly developed : our ability to respond to it as a literary work and our ability to observe its language .
10 My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash .
11 Irritation can also be caused by inflammation such as when we suffer from a cold or allergy .
12 Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children .
13 Cos we advertise in a special format do n't we ?
14 The weather is glorious , so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes , and find a hitherto undiscovered park .
15 ‘ If they want something manufactured to their own spec , OK , but we insist on a thumping great order or a high price . ’
16 An approximation we make about the actual behaviour enables us to model this behaviour in a dynamic framework without complicating the estimation .
17 It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’
18 Here , we concentrate on a partial equilibrium story and explore how economic agents tackle a rather difficult dynamic decision problem ; in later work we shall embed this story in a market context , but this first step will enable us to isolate certain elements in the market story .
19 For now , we concentrate on the real sector of the economy ( that is , the markets for goods and services and for labour ) .
20 Hence we concentrate on the user-catalogue interaction and on the interactive dialogue in particular with user and catalogue system inputs having equal importance .
21 We can probably be most influential if we concentrate on the following issues :
22 We concentrate on the famous multiplier-accelerator theory , so this is a good point at which to review your understanding of the multiplier process ( Ch. 18 ) and the accelerator principle ( Ch. 19 ) .
23 All of our businesses have maintained or improved their market shares as managers we concentrate on the full year rather on either half and because of our seasonal bias er , those of you who 've been , er , to our interim presentations before er , will remember that without fail I tell you our results at the half-way stage are not a clear guide to the outcome of the year as a whole .
24 These are more complicated , and to illustrate the analysis we concentrate on the simplified case where ( i.e. , bequests are not influenced by future earning capacity ) and ( i.e. , N represents ‘ raw ’ earning capacity , and there is no influence via parental wealth ) .
25 It 's what we mean by the official reason , it it 's the P R person .
26 Yet there is great difficulty in defining what we mean by the public benefit .
27 If we fail to see any need to offer sound moral justifications for treating sentient creatures as mere ‘ commodities ’ , ‘ preparations ’ , ‘ models ’ , or research ‘ tools ’ , then we surely deny that very rationality which we cite as the single quality which elevates humans so far above the other animals .
28 The area , I mean , we back onto a big council estate .
29 We sit on the dead leaves at the foot of the vent , backs against the stone .
30 Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies .
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