Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ways in which we communicate in face-to-face interaction can be summarised like this : |
| 2 | ‘ You know that we insist on complete loyalty , ’ Madame Mattli continued . |
| 3 | As in all active sports you pick up bumps and bruises , so we insist on medical insurance . |
| 4 | But you do collect bumps and bruises falling off windsurfers , so we insist on medical insurance . |
| 5 | It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman has not grasped the fact that any progress that we make on improving animal welfare in Europe has to be on a Europeanwide basis . |
| 7 | However , even when we concentrate on fixed investment in manufacturing , no single theory ‘ explains ’ much of the variation in investment . |
| 8 | Of course , as the Oxford philosophers always say , it all depends upon what we mean by political union . |
| 9 | Before turning to these — set out in two stages ( see below , pp. 93 – 106 ) — we need to be clear what we mean by reflective thinking , and that pupils can do it . |
| 10 | This is another way of saying that we need some good way of defining exactly what we mean by true braininess . |
| 11 | Well wha wha wha what do you think we mean by functional group isomerism ? |
| 12 | What we mean by abstract identification is that semantic and phonological properties of the word are not specified by the output of the visual word-recognition system . |
| 13 | In addition to the weight we gain from careless reliance on fatty foods , it also contributes to high cholesterol levels ( see above ) . |
| 14 | We can only experience God 's happiness for ourselves when we grow in contemplative prayer . |
| 15 | Boston therefore suffers many of the ills which we associate with inner-city decline . |
| 16 | In the New Testament Satan is much more the Evil One that we associate with Christian theology . |
| 17 | They move mainly by climbing , gripping with their flexible toes and progressing with the ease with which we walk on level ground . |
| 18 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 19 | And to , to try and illustrate to you why we focus on particular virulence factors for particular organisms . |
| 20 | But it is a different story when we focus on phonological change . |
| 21 | In this month 's SMALLHOLDER we focus on organic growing . |
| 22 | Here , in contrast , we focus on horizontal axis tilting of mid-crustal footwall rocks beneath a master detachment fault . |
| 23 | The awareness on which valuation depends is that on which we act in ordinary life , seldom treatable by the strict methods of proof of the sciences . |
| 24 | Fixing me with a stare he delivered in a monotone these words : ‘ We charge for technical support information ’ . |
| 25 | We worry about sectarian exclusiveness without realising that we have become used to living under siege . |
| 26 | Yeb 's big hand closes around mine , and we wait in strangled silence to be delivered . |
| 27 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 28 | We speak with relative confidence about our own group . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 30 | When we speak of strong attachment or attraction between two people we are in the realms of love , the basis on which many people in our culture choose or are drawn towards their marriage partner . |