Example sentences of "we [prep] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Many issues affect us as disabled people , from accessibility down to ignorance .
2 A power-cut , though , would leave us like stranded fish , unable to live .
3 One could go further and give more weight to differences with lower sampling variability , but that takes us into confirmatory statistics and beyond the scope of this book .
4 They 'll turn us into little people . ’
5 ‘ Apart from providing us with key data about the tangible net worth , pre-tax profitability and borrowings of each account , we have shared the CreditScan information with our sales and marketing colleagues .
6 And I find it somehow very encouraging that television can present us with real people instead of the usual cyphers and still strike such deep and resonant chords in so many .
7 Please candidates , do not deafen us with meaningless statistics about global sums and ‘ improvements in real terms ’ — they are political jargon for covering up the truth .
8 Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy .
9 Summarize those needs cos there may be more than one and tell him what you 're gon na do , what is the plan of attack , when you 're gon na see the guy again and when we do our business building up , you can take it back to erm the benefits of him introducing us to other people by keeping policy charges down and increasing bonuses whenever possible , cos it 's in his benefit he introduces us to others so we do n't have to advertise , or very very rarely advertise .
10 The standard interpretation of their redshifts says that NGC 4319 is receding from us at 1800 km per sec , while the redshift of Markarian 205 indicates a recession velocity of 21 000 km per sec ( The Redshift Controversy , G. B. Field , H. Arp & J. N. Bahcall , W. A. Benjamin , New York , 1974 , p 46 ) .
11 I think perhaps the most important thing is that voluntary agencies should do what they believe is right , and not allow their own objectives to be distorted , simply because a , of particular flavours , which is why I 'm saying let us grab the agenda and write the agenda , rather than have the agenda set for us by other people .
12 ‘ Alright , alright , leave us by all means if you must , Bumface .
13 Let us by all means have a national core curriculum ; and let children be tested in the subjects that make up that curriculum .
14 Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours .
15 Let us by all means give our classic a regular airing and add a new accessory .
16 It is the same today ; neither we nor our friends or loved ones can cleanse us by any means from sin or its due punishment .
17 The Independent is perceived as the most vulnerable competitor and editor Andreas Whittam Smith has accused Mr Murdoch of attempting to ‘ destroy us by unfair means ’ .
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