Example sentences of "we the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative .
2 Not like the Labour Party , that we the Labour Party have the power to choose that you do n't have the right to own .
3 ‘ Are n't we the early bird ? ’ said Tommy , as he turned over .
4 Erm I think it was an inter-club actually , oh the inter-club table show was the only night he could manage and that was no good to us so erm we , we the only way we could do it was to t bring him the night that there was a full table show transfer the full table show to the champion of champions judge that first and put the winning fish into the champion of champions and I know , well it 's gon na be woof you know a rush and that will , oh well , never mind .
5 ‘ Have we the moral right to ask the crew of the salvage vessel or lifting vessel , not to mention the divers , to join us , in Lieutenant Denholm 's elegant phrase , in drifting through the stratosphere in vaporized orbit ? ’
6 Question 1 means ‘ have we the appropriate process in-house now ? ’ not ‘ is there a process we could bring in ? ’ .
7 Question 1 means ‘ have we the appropriate process in-house now ? ’ not ‘ is there a process we could bring in ? ’ .
8 We the local authority , I think people of Wiltshire expect us to be the lead agency in promoting sustainability and environmental , highlighting environmental issues , throughout the county .
9 Yes start where we the last meeting I guess .
10 We need to press the case for the Social Chapter , but above all else , we the Left need to take the initiative in pursuing a strategy for employment and growth in Europe .
11 Er well er one went up we we the fitting shop you see , was at .
12 So we the whole collection since eighty three .
13 The humble petitioners of Ealing Abbey showeth ’ that we the undersigned wish to note with regret that the Abortion Pill mifegyne ( known as RU486 ) has been granted a product licence .
14 They can also tell us the correct name of a city .
15 To enable the House and the country to clear the matter up , will the Secretary of State tell us the correct figure ?
16 It is argued here , that economics can not show us the correct policy choice ( as some economists would appear to claim ) ; yet it may help us to avoid a wrong , or overly costly , policy choice .
17 Mercier , by contrast , gives us the working man , drawn with almost Hogarthian candour .
18 He still feeds us the odd titbit , apparently . ’
19 Just tell him what we want him to give us , you know if he gave us the advance nod on something then we could either you know deal it exclusive or we 'll put it all round , you know , whichever they prefer .
20 Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football .
21 To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time .
22 There is only what from our side is neither predictable nor controllable — the coming of the Word from beyond which opens and displays to us the overwhelming advent of God as he makes himself known in the ‘ eternal moment ’ .
23 For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories .
24 Perhaps this afternoon he will tell us the Labour party 's attitude to this imaginative development .
25 The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper .
26 This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement .
27 I yes , I 've just had my massive little row with The Savoy about the prices and they just wanted to charge us the normal price !
28 And this gives us the final say .
29 Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought .
30 His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske .
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