Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with meanings , intentions and accents of others , and any utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other . ’ |
| 2 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with the meanings , intentions and accents of others , our speech is a tissue of citations and echoes and allusions ; and every utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other who will receive it . |
| 3 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 4 | Much of how and why we react as we do is based on such factors . |
| 5 | Tt but everything we do is based on this , based on functions . |
| 6 | I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ? |
| 7 | It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory . |
| 8 | Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’ |
| 9 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 12 | The air we breathe is shared by all life on our planet . |
| 13 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 14 | I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre . |
| 15 | QUOTE : ONE JUST wondered if we had been provided with all the changes of the new laws relating to lbws . |
| 16 | Around three-quarters of the food we buy is processed in some way but Faith is right in thinking some convenience foods are healthier than others — fishfingers , frozen vegetables , pasta , pizza , baked beans , canned fruit in natural juices and yogurt all fit in neatly with ideas about healthy eating . |
| 17 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 18 | If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins . |
| 19 | We have been referred to those authorities . |
| 20 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 21 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |
| 22 | ‘ Unfortunately because of the contraction of the industry and the state of the market we have been forced into this position . |
| 23 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 24 | We have been approached by many members and friends who wish to contribute towards some form of memorial in thanksgiving for the life and work of our late founder and President Molly Braithwaite who died on 19th January this year . |
| 25 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |