Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | By producing this Bill , and by everything that they have done , are doing and will do , the Government are endeavouring to give British Coal the time and the means to meet what we perceive as longer-term needs . |
2 | The main assumptions of this debate are structured by concepts and social conventions which through the past centuries have helped us to understand reality : keywords of emerging bourgeois society like ‘ individual ’ , ‘ society ’ , ‘ state ’ , ‘ market ’ , ‘ democracy ’ have slightly different connotations in different Western societies and in different periods but — on the whole — form the common language with which we communicate about complex processes and attempt to understand and structure them . |
3 | Some problems we suffer with other schools though perhaps to a more intense degree : ( c ) A complex site that is difficult to administer and to supervise . |
4 | We will never know what happened during that operation because , like most English people , we suffer from excessive politeness with figures of authority and we do n't question or harass them when their explanations seem superficial . |
5 | THE goal of individual freedom and the value of society , which we advocate as democratic socialists , is a theory of sustained intellectual force . |
6 | We concentrate on civil matters , even though in the criminal context there is the analogous feature of ‘ plea bargaining . ’ |
7 | Then we wind through interminable streets of Edwardian terraced houses converted to flats and rooms . |
8 | Two examples should illustrate what we mean by relevant costs . |
9 | As with most things of interest , it depends what we mean by critical abilities . |
10 | We sit on wooden boxes round the heavy tables with their curling iron legs , and because the lollies are set on sticks splintered from firewood you sometimes get a skelf in your mouth as you suck , intent on the Lone Ranger . |
11 | Backed by thorough research , we press for new laws and policies to create a healthier , richer future . |
12 | Backed by thorough research , we press for new laws and policies to create a healthier , richer future . |
13 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
14 | A British Medical Association spokesman said : ‘ We disagree with certain aspects of the report . |
15 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
16 | A flat-calm water , clear sky and a bright quarter moon are not the sort of conditions we associate with good catches . |
17 | It 's all very well earning compensation for our members but what we want in public services is our jobs , not compensation . |
18 | Our resorts are off the beaten track ; to reach them we fly to offbeat airfields with skimpy facilities , or we take unfashionably long bus drives from better known airports . |
19 | We have arranged a policy suitable for the watersports we provide with certain Underwriters at Lloyds through T.L. Ireland & Co . |
20 | When we shift our attention away from sources emanating from Smolensk city to Party archives based on Roslavl' , we recapture through official documents that feeling of social , economic , and possibly political unrest sensed more informally by our peasant-woman visitor and her soldier son . |
21 | We and our European partners have made clear to the Guatemalan Government the importance that we attach to human rights , and expecially to the rights of street children . |
22 | We match for tonal characteristics , not candle light or simple power output , as Hartley 's analogy would have you believe . |
23 | We depend upon emotionally-packed images , formed in childhood or reinforced in times of crisis during our emotional development . |
24 | We act as separate cells , we need to act as a team . |
25 | We listen to soft scrapings |
26 | We wait in different places ; the car park of an estate , a street corner in Archway . |
27 | Because on summer nights , we put on spectacular pageants at châteaux like Le Lude and le Puy du Fou . |
28 | Unavoidably , we have to delay some decisions , we put off other decisions , we look at other alternatives , that is the way that you prudently manage budgets . |
29 | If we put in actual thicknesses , the " axes " are not so obvious , but they are still there ( figure 3.2b ) . |
30 | All they need is the planning permission and certainly the landowners will sell them the land , and if we put in stringent rules and regulations then we could control it properly . |