Example sentences of "we with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've also er recently been talking to erm a lecturer of the University who is doing a project , a research project , and would like to er offer his services to us in in that er in that project , so we at the early stages but nonetheless I think it is er very important that we do er test the market place and find out what both think of us , so that we with a prime and only objective of improving a service |
| 2 | Into the vacuum has sprung a bewildering variety of alternative philosophies , facing us with a post-Christian mosaic of confusing pluralism . |
| 3 | It fills us with a deep warmth that will last past midnight . |
| 4 | ‘ He looked back at us with a proud , black look . |
| 5 | The team served us with a final cocktail of emotions : happy , poignant and even philosophical . |
| 6 | This keeps us in our place , although it frustrates us with a great deal of suffering . |
| 7 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 8 | It will provide us with a great boost , ’ he said . |
| 9 | At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market . |
| 10 | Orwell has left us with a graphic description of a typical reader , the elderly lady who always took out the same books , year-in year-out — a thing not possible incidentally in today 's rapid-turnover public libraries — with the word , ‘ I do love a drop of Dell ! ’ referring to the popular writer Ethel M. Dell . |
| 11 | However , it follows at once that they do not strictly present us with a distinct adjective position , but just a special case of the predicative adjective already discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | Roland Smith has provided us with a fascinating and interesting book that should whet the appetite of many hill walkers and will certainly provide a wealth of useful background information when planning a walk to some of the ‘ Great Viewpoints ’ of Britain . |
| 13 | Massey provides us with a fascinating and persuasive account of how capitalist production has used space . |
| 14 | , whose organisation distributes many of our export products , highlighted opportunities facing the Company when he presented us with a commemorative certificate to mark the Chilton opening and to celebrate over 15 years of close co-operation . |
| 15 | The programme provides us with a quaint selection of Sons , Brides and other relations of Frankenstein , all based on some English lady 's knock-off of Rabbi Judah Loewe and the golem of Prague . |
| 16 | The pilot cut the motor and the plane slid towards us with a curious hissing sound . |
| 17 | In 1984 , ERA became members of the Technical Services Agency ( TSA ) , a user-controlled community technical aid centre who carried out the in-depth survey of our flats and who issued us with a long detailed report . |
| 18 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 19 | Some are based upon the effects of seasonal change and are therefore directly related to the orbit of the earth about the sun , which provides us with a useful unit of time , the year . |
| 20 | ‘ My God , ’ said Wexford in disgust , ‘ I just hope you have n't landed us with a female Tichborne claimant . ’ |
| 21 | He develops a theory which accounts for changing attitudes in terms of largely unexplained swings between ‘ matrist ’ and ‘ patrist ’ cultures , leaving us with a grandiloquent but unsubstantiated cyclical theory of social change . |
| 22 | Employing BP Chemicals ’ world-leading proprietary technology , this plant provides us with a strong partner and a platform for attaining growth for our products in this region . |
| 23 | These views , laid out primarily in The Constitution of Liberty and his three-volume work , Law , Legislation and Liberty , provide us with a powerful insight into the liberal theory of government and law . |
| 24 | Lord , hear us : And bless us with a living faith . |
| 25 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 26 | They have left us with a divided artist . |
| 27 | The " prologue " ( chapters 1–11 ) provides us with a general history of man over some thousands of years . |
| 28 | He does n't just provide us with a general description , he puts forward more significant details and makes us visualise clearly and lets us see for ourselves what it was like . |
| 29 | The low waters of this summer have provided us with a superb opportunity for fish spotting and also for mapping the contours of the river bed . |
| 30 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |