Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diane says : ‘ Quite often we build within an existing community and will retain its name . |
| 2 | From this high point of religiosity we descend to an ironic concluding sentence , recalling another leitmotiv which makes its first appearance in passage [ 3 ] : [ 6 ] " Dear me , dear me ! |
| 3 | In our response to the English language , both as readers and writers , we depend on an intimate feeling for words and rhythms and innuendoes and images and ironies which can only be achieved by exposure to great English literature . |
| 4 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 5 | If we cling to an outmoded view of neighbouring , peering at it through deeply rose-tinted spectacles , we may make false assumptions about what is actually available to old people , or ought to be available . |
| 6 | We put in an extra chip , that 's all . |
| 7 | We are interested in the relationship between studying a subject , and students ' sense of identity : the way in which the beliefs we hold about an academic discipline affect our sense of who we are . |
| 8 | Every so often , we are startled , such as when we read of an expatriate black South African who longs for apartheid : ‘ At least in South Africa I knew what I was fighting against . |
| 9 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 10 | We must consider that when we look at an alternative structure for the present arrangements for meat hygiene inspection . |
| 11 | Still , if we travel in an infected area , we would be foolish not to take precautions . |
| 12 | In order to explore this more fully , we begin with an explicit general equilibrium model , but based on simple assumptions about savings . |
| 13 | Suppose we begin with an existential hypothesis , without being able to point to any confirming evidence . |
| 14 | We begin with an exploded concept , for ‘ mind ’ no longer signifies the entity it once did . |
| 15 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
| 16 | However , the evolution of mankind has reached the point where it is better to leave religion behind , for it does comprise ‘ a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality , such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia , in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion ’ . |
| 17 | I am sure that , as parliamentarians , we are all greatly influenced in our views by different levels of loyalties — to our constituents , to our party , to our region , whatever part of the United Kingdom we come from , to the United Kingdom and , if we believe in an evolving European Community , to what we think are the best interests of the Community as a whole . |
| 18 | Employing 12,000 people at over 80 locations , we operate through an extensive range of businesses focused in five key areas — Cashmere , International Apparel Brands , Home Fashions , Mass Market Apparel and Yarns & Fabrics . |
| 19 | We operate in an unfair world where all sorts of unsuspected criteria influence people 's choices . |
| 20 | Right , yes it 's quite often aggressive people passive people who like maybe having passive people around and just needs somebody to walk over to shout at and behaving in an aggressive way , so maybe we have to go aggressive when we deal with an aggressive person . |
| 21 | Finally , in transition to the next chapter , we close with an awkward point about truth . |
| 22 | Few of us have any idea of how much water we use on an average day . |
| 23 | So , if that is the case how can we possibly lose our identity because we have n't , we 're not , there 's no suggestion if we go on an inward journey , the inward journey must be within our selves , within our individuality , not , not jumping out into some form of spacial context . |
| 24 | We aim for an in-service date in the early years of the next century . |
| 25 | Instead , we aim for an optimal solution , achieving the most relevant reports possible in the light of the uncertainties involved in producing them , and the available resources . |
| 26 | Since sentencing is a matter of societal process and since we engage in an adversarial system , a right of appeal which is given to one side should not be denied to the other . |
| 27 | An analogy might be the lip-reading that we do at an unconscious level . |
| 28 | There has to a meaningful comparison between the CAA 's charging policy and those of its EC counterparts as we move into an integrated European system . |
| 29 | It matters less and less as we move into an enjoyable account derived from a vocational puller-down of statues of the Shah and his father . |
| 30 | In practice , we live in an uncertain environment where future events can not be predicted with certainty and capital markets are far from perfect . |