Example sentences of "we [vb base] of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 2 | In many cases we speak of a given condition as cause and it is the one action or piece of behaviour involved , something to which responsibility attaches . |
| 3 | The other instance : we are told on unimpeachable authority that a woman is looking forward to the birth of her daughter ; years later we read of a young man arriving on the scene . |
| 4 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 5 | In short , when we hear of a peaceful society , we are likely to envision a society that is somehow the antithesis of the self-absorbed individualism of the modern urban-industrial world . |
| 6 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |
| 7 | DOWN under being the truly operative phrase , we hear of a stunning revelation about how our Antipodean cousins ‘ sex ’ a grape . |
| 8 | We conceive of a gentle , non-violent , ecologically sound way of living , with a reducing need for energy , as we transform an economy which is devouring its own natural basis . |
| 9 | There was a dissenting opinion on the hatters but , from another source , William Lovett , we learn of a delayed improvement among the cabinet makers . |