Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [conj] we [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is especially so when we try to impose our twentieth-century interpretation upon a word which once conveyed a subtly , or dramatically , different meaning in the past . |
| 2 | This is especially so if we examine Trotsky 's contribution to the Bolsheviks theory of ‘ permanent revolution ’ . |
| 3 | It is only latterly that we have become used to talking about such relations in terms of power . |
| 4 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 5 | My object at this stage is simply to depose the concept of society as an organism in which , far more subtly than we can measure or identify ( it is only recently that we have begun to identify the chemical balance of the human organism of society ) , a certain balance between tendencies and elements , many in themselves dangerous , destructive and evil , has to be maintained as a condition of survival , but a balance which can be endangered , or lost , reversibly or irrevocably . |
| 6 | But this is so only if we equate democracy with a simple and unrestrained majoritarianism , and as we have seen , there are good democratic reasons for not making that equation . |
| 7 | ‘ We want to create a wildflower meadow , but it 's important to see what 's already here before we go ahead and plant , ’ says Dean . |
| 8 | ‘ The application and desire to win a Test is always there but we need to combine that with combination and cohesion . |
| 9 | The beloved is not separate , absent , but present , at the moment of the poet 's writing or speaking , as of the beloved 's hearing or reading the poem — as , indeed , of the reader 's reading , now and always : he or she is always there as we read . |
| 10 | And the water is always there if we take the trouble to find it . |
| 11 | There is still much that we need to know about HIV and AIDS , and we are all learning all of the time . |
| 12 | There is still much that we do not know ; J. Hartley in a thirty-year survey ended shatteringly : There is a complex job to be done . |
| 13 | The gradient of a scalar potential is still there but we have in addition the time derivative of the vector potential . |
| 14 | It 's tempting to stop the drama at such morally dubious moments , but it is precisely here that we find the greatest learning opportunities . |
| 15 | It is very rarely that we know the age of a bride . |
| 16 | It is certainly not if we keep to rigid serial usages , but with only a little modification we may produce harmonic results which suit well enough . |