Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun] [subord] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | We recognize it as a unified stretch of language because we know facts about novels , layout , publishers , telephones , being woken up , and so on . |
| 2 | The airline 's commercial director , Mike Bathgate , said : ‘ This is a leisure and business link and we have enjoyed a high level of enquiries since we announced our intention to launch services from Stansted . ’ |
| 3 | so that the new flesh that we require will be a different sort of flesh than we 've got now probably in the new order or whatever it is , you know , we might require a different sort of flesh might n't we ? |
| 4 | So I am startled by his abrupt shift of tone when we discuss women-led initiatives , such as the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 5 | Different respondents may use different frames of reference unless we tell them the purpose of the rating procedure . |
| 6 | However , there seems to be very strong reason indeed to think that there can not be an acceptable account of effects as we conceive them which does not include necessitation . |
| 7 | We had to pick our way down and scale a different shoulder of cliff before we were able to lower ourselves to where Father lay . |
| 8 | This will provide a continual series of shocks when we realize that , in our terms , it is ‘ only a few years ’ since the infant gurgled in its cot , but the ‘ infant ’ , who is now almost grown up , properly considers it to be ‘ a lifetime ago ’ . |
| 9 | These beautiful and delicate flowers , often heavily scented , include the complete range of colour as we know it , hence the name , which is the Greek word for rainbow , and from which the word " orris " is directly derived . |
| 10 | To achieve this the data requires varying degrees of manipulation if we are to understand the society whose everyday activities constitute the origins of the archaeological record . |
| 11 | I 'm asking the people round the table to write these extra couple of letters because we must be activists because we 're here by definition . |
| 12 | Now it concerns me that er I do n't want to be associated with the possible charge of elitism if we 're only associated with independent schools . |
| 13 | Because it , it 's terrifying looking at a blank piece of paper when we needed ways to start the comment . |
| 14 | But just as all doctors have patients who consume disproportionate amounts of time so we have papers that slow us down . |
| 15 | Its conclusion is that we can only hope to show that we understand propositions about the mental states of others if we take there to be a non-contingent relation between mental states and behaviour , and thus remove the possibility that the two should come apart . |
| 16 | There was a great deal of excitement while we were getting ready . |
| 17 | The crackling of a fire , the dawn chorus of the birds , the sound of waves upon the shore ; most of these go unnoticed and yet each of them can give a great deal of pleasure if we could only learn to become aware of them . |
| 18 | And we did require and demand and obtain from the Treasury a great deal of information before we would allow , as it were , any decision to be made . |
| 19 | But , unfortunately , we are also importing a great deal of paper so we produce more waste than we can cope with . |
| 20 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 21 | It would be a pretty poor state of affairs if we abandoned our traditional puddings , leaving only the tourists to appreciate them . |
| 22 | After all , we have a good couple of hours before we have to go back . ’ |
| 23 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 24 | Among the more important qualities of water as we receive it from our supply sources are its pH and its hardness . |
| 25 | We could have been bound to pay enormous sums of money if we had lost . ’ |
| 26 | They have to follow school routines , ca n't swear , smoke , or call the staff by their first names and we will use physical means of punishment if we have to , if they 're naughty . |
| 27 | We had an alarming amount of letters after we released that from people who were abused as kids . |
| 28 | I , I , I 'm anxious to avoid a situation of double handling of complaints if we can . |
| 29 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 30 | We gazed in wonderment at the fantastic shape of the small island of Tindholmur as we passed . |